Here is how it looked originally on mine:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\PE_SYS\Setup]
"OsLoaderPath"="\\"
"RestartSetup"=dword:00000000
"SetupType"=dword:00000002
"SystemPartition"="\\Device\\HarddiskVolume1"
"SystemSetupInProgress"=dword:00000000
"CmdLine"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\oobe\\windeploy.exe"
"SetupPhase"=dword:00000004
"OOBEInProgress"=dword:00000001
"WorkingDirectory"="C:\\Windows\\Panther"
"CloneTag"=hex(7):54,00,68,00,75,00,20,00,41,00,70,00,72,00,20,00,31,00,36,00,\
20,00,31,00,39,00,3a,00,33,00,36,00,3a,00,30,00,30,00,20,00,32,00,30,00,30,\
00,39,00,00,00,00,00
"SetupConfigSetRoot"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,6e,00,66,00,69,00,67,00,53,00,65,00,\
74,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,00,00
This is what I changed it to :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\PE_SYS\Setup]
"OsLoaderPath"="\\"
"RestartSetup"=dword:00000000
"SetupType"=dword:00000000
"SystemPartition"="\\Device\\HarddiskVolume1"
"SystemSetupInProgress"=dword:00000000
"CmdLine"=""
"SetupPhase"=dword:00000000
"OOBEInProgress"=dword:00000000
"WorkingDirectory"="C:\\Windows\\Panther"
"CloneTag"=hex(7):54,00,68,00,75,00,20,00,41,00,70,00,72,00,20,00,31,00,36,00,\
20,00,31,00,39,00,3a,00,33,00,36,00,3a,00,30,00,30,00,20,00,32,00,30,00,30,\
00,39,00,00,00,00,00
"SetupConfigSetRoot"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,6e,00,66,00,69,00,67,00,53,00,65,00,\
74,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,00,00
I didn't have this:
"SetupShutdownRequired"=dword:00000001
Not sure how windeploy is continuing to run if you removed it from cmdline entry.
I also renamed the Panther directory to OLD-Panther.
In the Panther directory is the autounattend.xml - amongst other things.
What is in your Panther directory ?
You might also look in Windows\Setup folder
Was fine on next reboot
(PE_SYS is just the name I loaded the hives as )