First I'm sorry if this is a newbie question (which I am) or has been previously answered (I searched I swear! lol), but I am trying to set my install to run a .bat of registry tweaks for some proprietary software and such upon first boot. In my run once I've created a line that reads: "D:\1st Boot\1stboot.bat". Within said folder I have all of my .reg files, a .txt of changes implemented in the install, as well as the above mentioned .bat The contents of the .bat are: When Windows boots to the desktop after I login for the first time a command window appears briefly, then things such as browser customizations and such run as is typical for a new user, but my .bat has not run. I can run the .bat manually off the D:\ but then that kind of defeats the purpose. I am installing XP Pro SP3 from a Dell OEM with all recent updates through November's Patch Tuesday along with IE8, Flash, Adobe Reader, VLC, and JRE 6. Any suggestions? Thank you much ahead of time.