well ive cracked this programme installing lark get InstallRite http://www.epsilonsquared.com/anonymous/InstallRite25.exe your best having a second pc with an nforce board but at a push a spare drive and burner will do do a clean install of xp on another drive install InstallRite now install your programme but use InstallRite to do it pick the bit at the top looks like a lightening bolt browse to the programmes exe and it will install it click all the next bits etc and finish as normal afterwards InstallRite will pop up again click next and you will get to a bar says finish dont click that now look up and you will see a button says make an install kit make sure the name you use here is small less than 8 letters the last screen has a bit were you can tick to force them not to reboot if the installer wants in,and a force silent install tick them as the batch file will reboot the pc after all are installed trick if with say nero you want it to install all registered ready to run use nero now and insert your registration details now uninstall it delete the kit you made before reinstall nero this time it will pick up on your previous registration save this one as a kit to use do this for all your programmes you want to use and you can test them as well at this stage on another clean install now you need to make start.cmd use note pad here below is my current one as an example you need to edit yours to reflect the name of your install kits .................................................................................................... ....... CLS @echo off TITLE Windows XP SP1 - Unattended Installation ECHO. ECHO Over the next few minutes you will see automated installations ECHO of various sofware applications, windows updates, and registry ECHO tweaks being implemented. The computer will restart automatically ECHO once the whole process has finished! ECHO. ECHO Starting installation of Applications ECHO. ECHO Installing Ad-aware 6 Professional ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\Ad-aware.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing EasyCleaner ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\EasyCleaner.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing PerfectDisk ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\PerfectDisk.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing WinRAR3.4B1 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\WinRAR3.4B1.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing SpeedFan 4.13 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\SpeedF.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing Nero63117 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\Nero.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing NvMixer ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\NvMixer.exe ECHO. ECHO Restarting the PC in 1 minute... shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute" ECHO. ECHO Deleting Temp Installation Files... RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\INSTALL EXIT .................................................................................................... ....... now assuming you allready are installing your drivers you will have made your folders as here http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/oemfolders.htm now copy this $OEM$ to your xpcd file your building the iso in note my Install file is INSTALL in the above inside the INSTALL folder i have another folder called SOFTWARE Put all your install kits and start.cmd into SOFTWARE now i assume you have allready made a WINNT.sif file thats in your I386 folder well now you need to add this to the bottom of it [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\INSTALL\SOFTWARE\start.cmd now make the iso then burn it and this lot should all install fine for this i have been using nLite 0.97 http://nuhi.msfn.org/ using nLite 0.97 ,the information in this thread,the bit above i now have an xp install cd with 2149 sp2 on it a load of crap like messanger ,unneeded drivers etc removed from it and the 6 bits of software listed thats less than 400mb so i will be making more install kits later to fill up the cd if you wonder why NvMixer is in the list its because using the drivers way it never installed fully for me it was in the drivers file on c but i still had to run its installer but it does now