well, the issue im coming up with is that WPI goes in order and waits til each program is done installing to continue, im wanting CS4 to extract into a temp folder while other applications install. do you follow? i dont see how what you said could help my situation, so i thought i would clarify. EDIT: And i have cs4 packed as a self extracting 7z right now, hence why it takes 30-1 hour mins to extract