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    Is it possible to show the Windows XP OOBE on next startup?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by UJSupanova, Feb 18, 2009.

  1. UJSupanova

    UJSupanova Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm giving someone a laptop tomorrow (hp compaq nx9005) and i've installed XP and several programs on it aswell as changing some personal bits like the wallpaper (i put a happy birthday wallpaper on it as it's a birthday present)

    what i want to know is can i possibly have the Windows XP Out of Box Experience set-up thing come on when she turns it on tomorrow so that it feels more like a new computer?

    thanks.

    I've just read that i could have used sysprep to customize the system before hand but it's too late now, is there a setting i can change to have oobe come up now?
     
    UJSupanova, Feb 18, 2009
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  2. SpeedyMods

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    I found the OOBE executable for Vista in "C:\Windows\System32\oobe\msoobe.exe"

    It might be the same location in XP.

    Just running the executable starts the OOBE. I'm sure that someone here knows how to make a program run once on startup.

    Greg
     
    SpeedyMods, Feb 18, 2009
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    Yep, just put an entry in the runonce key in hklm/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion in the registry
     
    goofball, Feb 19, 2009
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