HI Newbie here..so please be gentle... I have all the necessary files installed. What confuses me is that the unattended installed does not do so in vmware is this correct. I do not have a pc here to try it hence i tried to via vmware to install an unattended version. There is an unattend.xml file that has all the data in it. Is this ca case that vmware cannot read or does not read this file. Thanks in advance..wb