hey zorphnog, thats for the post is there a walk thought I could look at on how to do everything you where talking about. I am new to the whole *.wim I use to use ghost alot till I ran into issues with ghosting vista could have been with the verison of ghost cast server I was using. So if you can point me in the right direction for automation you where talking about would be great. The problem I have that I haven't worked much with wim up till now and I don't know where to start. Thanks