cheers! worked out perfectly! got a clean vista up and running. only have to get rid of that annoying sysprep pop up at startup..... uh, that was simple! thanks again! i strongly recommend to store that programm somewhere on this site. the link is http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=233256 but one never knows. how about implementing it into vlite?? (that was to you guys doing a great job in programming an running this forum ) problem solved!