ok i must have done something wrong here thank god i was testing it on a different hard drive by something wrong i mean my disc booted up and loaded windows but it didn't add my addon using WPI i think it may have been because of the file i need for WPI to boot after install even tho you explained it to me i'm still confused cos the $OEM$ folder is in a sources folder but there is already a sources folder on the windows DVD the only thing i can think of is to take the $OEM$ folder out of the sources folder and put it into the sources folder thats already on the windows DVD unless i haven't made the WPI right which i can't see why i only tried to use one app which was vlite-1.2 just to see if it would work maybe it's got something to do with that silent switch thing i put /S at the end of the command line but maybe it don't work with that if anyone can help me with this then that would be kool thanks in advance