HI! I"m new to the forum and just picked you from the bunch. are'nt you lucky. I'm having trouble with my computer.windows xp home edition. It was already installed and fine when I had another problem and thats when I tried to reinstall XP. anyway it won't finish installing and I get the error message SXS>DLL: snytax error in manifest or poicy file "D"\1386\asms\6000\msft\vcrtl\vcrtl.man" on line 21 Hope it makes more sense to you. thanks for any help offered. have a nice day.