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I've done this using a floppy to control the whole operation, and also using a command in windows that reboots and causes this to occur. now i do have my unattended install as a hidden partition so parts of this wont be relevent to you. The easiest way is the floppy disk. What I did was to make a pc-dos boot disk and then using symantec's Gdisk (comes with ghost) i made a batch file that unhid the partition and then set it as the active partition and then it runs restart.com and reboots the computer. computer now reboots and then runs another batch file which sets the active partition back to what it used to be. it then runs the unattended reinstall which on my system takes about 2 hours. i got the idea from the old dell ZZTop command which did something sorta similar. -Thomas

Okay this is gonna sound odd but do you have AIM running? or dead Aim, or any of the other downsized aims? cus if you do aol has these terrible little video and voice ads that run in the buddy list. And they cant be disabled by the downsized aim knock offs.....Its just my guess thats whats causing this for you. I spent a month trying to figure it out. Thomas

You might try a program called passware which allows the creation of a bootdisk that resets the passwords to allow you to logon and then changed the password. works on all NT based installs even PDC's. Thomas