There’s an almost Pavlovian response to seeing a “Page Not Found” error when hunting for some elusive tech treasure online—an equal blend of disappointment, suspicion, and, let’s admit it, a trace of relief that perhaps you were spared from malware after all. When it comes to navigating the...
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Creating an unattended answer file for Windows 11 can save you a significant amount of time during installation—especially when you’re repeatedly setting up multiple machines or testing configurations. By automating everything from language preferences to disk partitioning and even account...
Hello, I have a question, I am working on creating an Answer file. Does anyone know how you can add software and updates, drivers or another way, if this is possible?
I am looking for some help/advice in creating an answer file to automate the first time boot of a Windows 10 computer. I prepare many of these computers for customers and would like to automate the process. How do I make an answer file to accomplish this?
I am trying to move user directories when doing a clean install of windows Pro. During the OOBE boot, I get this error:
Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\Windows\Panther\unattend.xml] for pass [oobe]. The setting specified in the error file cannot be applied. The...
This article describes the Regional and Language Settings options in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. Also, in this article you can find the method to modify the settings using an xml based answer file....
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Running the sysprep /generalize /oobe /reboot /unattend:c:\Unattend.xml command in Audit mode, how do I create an answer file that allows to:
1) include a partition in the system protection of Windows 7 SP1.
2) rename and put a password to the Administrator account.
3) permanently...
When trying to deploy Windows 7 using SysPrep, with CopyProfile=true in the Answer file and applying the image using imagex by booting to WinPE, during mini-setup the setup fails with the following error message: "Windows could not parse or process the...
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Help a Brotha out please.
I created an answer file using the windows AIK tool called Windows System Image manager tool.
Great tool by the way! Well even better once I get my Answer file to boot from the USB.
Ok back to my time question. I created the answer file and copied it to my USB...
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I work for a lab at a university. We reimage 30 Windows 7 machines each semester. We use HP LP1965 widescreen monitors and Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 video cards. These monitors can rotate to profile, which is the way they are in the lab. Each machine has two monitors. We use WAIK...
I am having problems with running sysprep on some new Windows 7 64-bit machines that we just got in.
Here is what I have: Dell Optiplex 780, Windows 7 64-bit operating system. We do not have a volume license; we just use the product key that is on the machine.
Here is what I want to do...
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Hi there, I've successfully made an answer file on SIM that gets through the whole process unattended. However right at the end it always asks for user name-also it hasn't named the computer. Here is my answer file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend...
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Has anyone built a successful unattend.xml answer file yet using Windows System Image Manager? By successful I mean run all the way through the oobe, installing drivers per machine…
I cannot get past the "Set NetworkLocation", it stops here every time. I tried using all three options, and...
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Ok, here is what seems to be the problem. We have a deployment process set up to deploy Windows Vista for the most part unattended. We have an answer file (unattend.xml) that we use to specify all of our settings. In the answer file, we have set up the deployment to automatically join our domain...