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Awesome guys, thanks for the super quick response! Your reponses are very much appreciated. Troy

Here is the situation. The organization I work with has around 100 computers. Our computers come with DELL windows XP CDs. I want to make 1 CD for unintended installs, so when these machines need reformatting, I just pop the CD in and that's it. Some CDs use different CD keys. I have created a pretty good unattended install with a CD key that works using one of the DELL cds as the source. I have some questions. 1) Will there be a problem in any way using the same key on a bunch of machines? If the machine came with XP, I don't see a problem legally with having XP on the machine now, it's just going to have maybe a different CD key. There isn't going to be some big "red flag" going off at Microsoft is there? Will it cause problems with updating or anything? 2) I think I may have the answer, but how do you get past having to activate windows after the install? I have located the WPA.DBL file mentioned here: "Once your system is activated, navigate to your system32 directory within your Windows directory, and locate the file WPA.DBL. This is your activation file. Once you have located the WPA.DBL file, copy it to $OEM$\$$\system32 in your Windows Setup Source. That's it, you're done." But this path, "$OEM$\$$\system32," does not exist in my setup source. "System32," however is here: "\I386\SYSTEM32," and the "$OEM$" directory has no subdirectory. So, where does the WPA.DBL file go? Glad I found this site, thanks in advance for your input. Troy