Help With Sysprep XP Home

Started by laddanator , Dec 17 2011 04:03 AM

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#1 laddanator

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:03 AM

XP Home does not use Mini-Setup option and the sysprep.inf will not load the unattended stuff. Pro works fine. Been a long time since I used sysprep for Home. How do you unattend the process for Home? oobeinfo.ini? Need the product key to be entered automatically.

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#2 Kelsenellenelvian

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:12 AM

AFAIK that feature\features were never implemented in XP Home.

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#3 laddanator

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 02:23 PM

AFAIK that feature\features were never implemented in XP Home.

I never understood why MS treated XP Home like the red head stepchild and Pro got all the goods. I was reading you could use a Winbom.ini to automate the process but not sure how to make one.

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#4 Kelsenellenelvian

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 02:54 PM

Ummm maybe because MOST home users DO NOT use any of the features in Pro?

Thus allowing MS to offer a cheaper home friendly version.

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#5 laddanator

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:48 PM

Ummm maybe because MOST home users DO NOT use any of the features in Pro?

Thus allowing MS to offer a cheaper home friendly version.

Yes totally with you there...should have said the deployment options. I know the diff between Home and Pro. Kinda sucks the Mini-Setup option was left out of Home.