Product Key Addition To Installation CD

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Hi,
I am setting up an installation CD of windows XP Pro. The only piece of
information that I don't want my employees to enter is the Product Key.
We're under a volume lincense and I don't want the key to be widely
available, so I want it pre-entered during installation. I tried adding it
to a "Sysprep.inf" file that I created (in I386 folder), but that doesn't
seem to work. I editted the Unattended.txt and added Productkey = "xx...xx"
under USERDATA then saved as to winnt.sif (again in I386 directory) but now I
am getting many errors during installation. I have all entries commented in
that file except for PRODUCTKEY line... Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
 
Jason said:
I am setting up an installation CD of windows XP Pro. The only piece
of information that I don't want my employees to enter is the Product
Key. We're under a volume lincense and I don't want the key to be
widely available, so I want it pre-entered during installation. I
tried adding it to a "Sysprep.inf" file that I created (in I386
folder), but that doesn't seem to work. I editted the Unattended.txt
and added Productkey = "xx...xx" under USERDATA then saved as to
winnt.sif (again in I386 directory) but now I am getting many errors
during installation. I have all entries commented in that file
except for PRODUCTKEY line... Any help is appreciated.
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Customize it properly..

http://unattended.msfn.org/
 
Windows XP Service Pack 1 Volume License Product Key Encryption
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=328356

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| Hi,
| I am setting up an installation CD of windows XP Pro. The only piece of
| information that I don't want my employees to enter is the Product Key.
| We're under a volume lincense and I don't want the key to be widely
| available, so I want it pre-entered during installation. I tried adding it
| to a "Sysprep.inf" file that I created (in I386 folder), but that doesn't
| seem to work. I editted the Unattended.txt and added Productkey = "xx...xx"
| under USERDATA then saved as to winnt.sif (again in I386 directory) but now I
| am getting many errors during installation. I have all entries commented in
| that file except for PRODUCTKEY line... Any help is appreciated.
| Thanks
 
I thought I did... Nothing in the description of the Unattended file
description says that all entries are required, so I only left the [UserData]
section and in it I had "ProductKey = xxxxx". When running the installation
program, this apparently generates a lot of errors and continued installation
is not possible.
 
Thanks, I am installing XP with SP2. Is the 'y' parameter optional? I don't
need a time limit.
Thanks
 
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