hi thanks for the help but i have tried wot you sead and nothing seams to work eney way here is a shot of my folder and here is the code for my RuneOnceEx cmdow @ /HID @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Alcohol 120" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\alcohol\setup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\apps\alcohol\register.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Diskeeper 8" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\DiskeeperPro_8.0.459.exe /s /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\037 /VE /D "IsoBuster 1.5" /f REG ADD %KEY%\037 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\IsoBuster1.5.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\037 /V 2 /D "taskkill /F /IM isobuster.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\053 /VE /D ".NET Framework 1.1" /f REG ADD %KEY%\053 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\dotnetfw.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\075 /VE /D "WinRAR 3.20" /f REG ADD %KEY%\075 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\WinRAR320.exe /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\085 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\085 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT hope you can help its realey starting to do my head in thanks