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  • Question

  • When I start a PC with an image that was Syspreped, it prompts me to create a local user account and a computer name.  I want the prompt for the computer name but I don't want to create a user account.  I want it to automatically logon with local administrators account (which it does).  How do I stop it from asking me to create a local account? 

    Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:29 PM

Answers

  • Unattended Setup Known Issues

    Essentially what you have to do is set the following registry value:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE

        UnattendCreatedUser    REG_DWORD    0x1

     

    • Marked as answer by Cloud_TS Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:00 AM
    Wednesday, January 4, 2012 12:03 AM

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  • I think just adding <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE> to the unattend.xml will do the trick.
    Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:01 PM
  • This doesn't work...exactly.  When I add <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>, I still get the user and pc anme info dialog.  I also have to add <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE> for it to supress the dialog.  However, I want it to prompt for a machine name.  How do I get it to just prompt for a machine name but not prompt/create a user account?

     

    Also, How do I set the home page in IE to Google and set the default search provider to Google?  I have the following in my unattend.xml but it doesn't work.

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-IE-InternetExplorer" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
          <Home_Page>http://www.google.com</Home_Page>
          <DisableFirstRunWizard>true</DisableFirstRunWizard>
          <SearchScopes>
            <Scope wcm:action="add">
              <ScopeKey>SearchProvider1</ScopeKey>
              <ScopeUrl>http://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}</ScopeUrl>
              <ScopeDisplayName>Google</ScopeDisplayName>
              <ScopeDefault>true</ScopeDefault>
            </Scope>
          </SearchScopes>
    </component>

    Friday, December 30, 2011 5:06 PM
  • Unattended Setup Known Issues

    Essentially what you have to do is set the following registry value:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE

        UnattendCreatedUser    REG_DWORD    0x1

     

    • Marked as answer by Cloud_TS Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:00 AM
    Wednesday, January 4, 2012 12:03 AM