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You can use DISKPART too, I feel it's a better tool for this type of thing: C:\> ECHO LIST VOL | DISKPART | FIND "NTFS" Volume 1 C System NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy System Replace NTFS with CDFS to find the CDROM's. You'll have to do some parsing of the results, but this is cleaner and quicker than most methods.

You'd have to be crazy.

Just download the latest full installer versions from Adobe: Firefox Plugin Internet Explorer ActiveX Install with /S switch. It's really simple, and the above installers don't have that "Ask Toolbar" or other spyware riddled crap.

From my experience this would be a bad thing to do. Syspreping with ANY applications installed is a bad idea. The problem is that Microsoft's Sysprep utility does not change SIDS and CLSID's that it is not aware of. There are also registry permissions that would get fouled up. If attempted, it may even "seem to work". However, you are very likely to have a PC that crashes unexpectedly all the time. I am a firm believer that Syspreping in this manner is the main reason Microsoft Windows is seen to be "Unstable" by many people. Windows is exrememly stable if installed properly.

That's a great list, thanks 03GrandAmGT