wajhiuddin
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Program wont' run unattended after restart in windows xp
We run sysprep for our laptops configuration for different projects and run the customization program which starts automatically after the sysprep finished. This includes joining a domain and installs some programs like Symantec, PcanyWhere etc. This process includes couple of reboots first restart happens when machines join the domain and the second restart happens before it gets the program installed. It all happens unattended without any user interaction.
We have tons of different types of laptops and they all working fine without any issue. Except Toshiba Tecra A9. It doesn’t run the program (which it should by itself) after it does the second restart. We always have to run program manually in order to finished the customization process.
Does any one have any idea what is preventing it to run the program . I guess it has some thing in the boot order or the registry which forcing it to do some other stuff instead?
We have tons of different types of laptops and they all working fine without any issue. Except Toshiba Tecra A9. It doesn’t run the program (which it should by itself) after it does the second restart. We always have to run program manually in order to finished the customization process.
Does any one have any idea what is preventing it to run the program . I guess it has some thing in the boot order or the registry which forcing it to do some other stuff instead?
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any specific area in the registry I shold look for? I looked in runonce alredy
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it was some of the toshiba application causing the problem uninstalled alll the toshiba stuf runs fine
You may find the Tecra is missing a an entry in the RunOnce or Run or startup that you'd expect.
From there, I would then look to see what process might be responsible for wiping this out. Perhaps run FileMon during the processing and log what process is touching this. Perhaps the Tecra has some additional software installed that the others doesn't the clears out the entry?