Yeah, I started to look at that as a solution. Something wasn't quite "right" with the CD I built - I had removed all the GuiRunOnce stuff, and the commands (except the nLite line) in $oem$\commands.txt (or whatever that file is called.. its gone now, so.. yeah) and the CD was still performing the software installations that I had there. So I blew it away and started with a clean CD, then applied the most recent set of settings to it, and it started behaving. The other method I was about to attempt was how I handled installed with RIS ... I had auto login enabled, installed some software, then ran sysprep so that I would be prompted to enter a computer name. A bit like hitting a nail with a sledge hammer, but it worked, and I'm lazy ;-) Thanks for the regedit code. I'm sure to need that before I'm done ..... Tim