Extremely Frustrated.....! First off I'm an older retired guy but fairly new at some of this stuff. Most of the unattended goes correctly. The problem: For some reason nothing from the $OEM$, $ folder (Drivers,Install) gets copied to the hard drive. So of course nothing from the RunOnceEx.cmd gets installed after the reboot because the Directories/files are not there. The folders are exactly like the MSFN Unattended Guide. And, yes the RunOnceEx does install properly when tested with the folders in the right place. I have searched and found a few similar problems stated in the forum - but the ones that were answered would not solve my problem. I seem to have the folders in the proper place and order. All of the other folder and Files like the $$ folder, $Docs and the $Progs do get copied into the proper place. My timezone, Theme and several other things from the winnt.sif are all correct. I have looked at this until I can hardly stand it - and do not see the problem....! If I understand this correctly those folders in the $ folder should automatically get copied - at least if my winnt.sif is correct and if the folders are placed, labeled and/or spelled and refered to correctly. If the problem isn't in the winnt.sif - which I can't seem to see a problem with - then what else am I overlooking. Any help would be appreciated - I've searched for a week now - and don't know where to go from here....! Magic1 (Tom) My Unattend files: ============== winnt.sif ============== ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes UnattendSwitch=yes WaitForReboot=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx FullName="Owner" OrgName="None" ComputerName=Computer1 [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=75 [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile=%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\MyScreen.theme DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes [TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=555 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=http://www.msnf.com [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes ============= cmdlines.txt ============= [COMMANDS] "usersetup.cmd" "RunOnceEx.cmd" ============= usersetup.cmd ============= @echo off cmdow @ /HID title Setup Accounts netuser Administrator /name:new_name exit ================================= RunOnceEx.cmd ================================= cmdow @ /HID @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 7" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Adobe7\acroread7.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "DVD Decrypter 3.5.1.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\DVDDecrypter\Setup.exe /S" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "DVD Shrink 3.2" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\DVDShrink\Setup.exe /verysilent" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "ISOBuster 1.6" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\ISOBuster\Setup.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 2 /D "taskkill /F /IM isobuster.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 3 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\ISOBuster\register.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY% 025 /VE /D "Java 501" /f REG ADD %KEY% 025 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Java_501\jre501.exe" qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "TweakUI Powertoy" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Powertoys\TweakUi.msi /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Kaspersky\setup156.exe /S" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 2 /D "copy /Y "%systemdrive%\Install\Kaspersky\2005.KEY" "%systemdrive%\program files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal\2005.KEY.YEK"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.14" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\KLite\KLite.exe /silent /loadinf=".\silent.inf"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "Office 2003 Professional and FrontPage" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Frontpage\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f REM REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "MSN Messenger 6.2" /f REM REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\MSN\MsnMsgs.msi /QN" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "Nero 6.6.0.1 Ultra" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\Nero\register.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Nero\nero6601.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Spybot SD 1.3" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Spybot\setup.exe /VERYSILENT /NOCANCEL /TASKBARHIDE /AUTOCLOSE" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /VE /D "Winamp 5.05 Pro" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Winamp\Winamp.msi /qn INI="%systemdrive%\Install\Winamp\winamp.ini"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\070 /VE /D "WinRAR 3.40 Corporate Edition" /f REG ADD %KEY%\070 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\WinRAR\wrar340.exe /s /W" /f REG ADD %KEY%\075 /VE /D "WinZip 9.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\075 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Winzip\WinZipSFX.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\075 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\Program Files\winzip\winzip32.exe /noqp /notip /autoinstall" /f REG ADD %KEY%\075 /V 3 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\Winzip\Winzip.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f REG ADD %KEY%\080 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\RegTweaks.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\085 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\085 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT