What state is Vista Setup currently in?

How to determine what state Windows Setup is in when installing Vista.

You can determine what state Windows Setup is in from the command prompt by typing the following: reg query HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSetupState /v ImageState

The result will be one of the following values:

IMAGE_STATE_COMPLETE – Vista was successfully installed
IMAGE_STATE _UNDEPLOYABLE – The current phase of Setup is not yet finished
IMAGE_STATE_GENERALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE – generalize pass finished and will go into Windows Welcome next
IMAGE_STATE_GENERALIZE_RESEAL_TO_AUDIT – generalize pass finished and will go into audit mode next
IMAGE_STATE_SPECIALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE – specialize pass finished and will go into Windows Welcome next
IMAGE_STATE_SPECIALIZE_RESEAL_TO_AUDIT – specialize pass finished and will go into audit mode next

Note that you can also determine the same information another way by typing the following command:

type %windir%SetupStateState.ini

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