Thanks for the post guys, i checked out the links that Famer sent me, those cmdlines.txt are the SAME as mine. Why is it that the runonceex.cmd says "to many command-line parameters" IN vmware while runonceex.cmd worked just fine on a regular computer like on this computer that im typing to you right now. I'm clicking it and it says operation completed successfully. Andy, u mean to move the runonceex.cmd to a new folder in install folder and make the cmdlines.txt find it in there? eg. %systemdrive%\install\runonceex\runonceex.cmd ? Thanks again