I tried this one vlited Vista and it did not work with mklink, so i am going to try my own with Windows 7 but i want to know what i need to keep to let this work. The other vlited Vista didn't work because it did not recognize the file (the symbolic link to a network drive) while on my untouched windows 7 it works fine. I tried googling it but i didnt find anything that related vlite and mklink. thanks for your help. I am trying to keep this is as small as possible while including mklink support (with /d command), networking (shares), and .net support for use in a VM. thanks in advance