here is what it looks like, Quote fizban2: "you cannont use the external installer from MS, you have to go through features and install the .NetFramwork 3.0 there." care to explain how? also i tried beats' way, through the CMD promt, heres what that looked like. "%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0\setup.exe" /q /f /norestart what now?