Alanoll: thankyou, that seems reasonable....when i get to doing it on a full machine it should be fine...even if its not, its not to bad....everything else works...well except for the autologon... durex: i'm not fussed about the resolution during app install...i'm referring to after the first start of windows....as Alanoll said, its because the drivers aren't loaded for the VMware machine.... thanks guys, thought i was going insane...only one more prob to go....yay