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Do you know which alternative method would make windowsupdate happy?

If you cant even ping google then there must be a problem with your dialup. Does the internet work throught a browser?

Thanks for the reply. No I havn't tried it yet because I want to add some unattended install options to it first. I'll do it later. I'm glad you did leave echo on. I agree its good to see whats going on

I cant get regmon.exe to work in win98 mode either. Even if I use dman's method, the same error comes up. Win95 mode doesn't work with regmon.exe either but NT4SP5 mode does. You could use that instead. set __COMPAT_LAYER=NT4SP5 c:\Regmon.exe set __COMPAT_LAYER= exit

I dont know if thats possible but a workaround would be to make a batch file that enables compatibility mode, runs the program and then switches off compatibility mode. the following code runs a program called filename.exe in windows 98 compatibility mode. set __COMPAT_LAYER=Win98 filename.exe set __COMPAT_LAYER= exit Below is a list of modes you can use: 256Color 640x480 Win95 NT4SP5 The following codes sets Win95, 640x480 and 256Color set __COMPAT_LAYER=Win95 640x480 256Color filename.exe set __COMPAT_LAYER= exit

tommyp first of all I'm seriously impressed with your batch file its very very good. When I slipstreamed IE6 into win2k SP4, the operation seems to work sucessfully. However, during the process, I noticed some "Could Not Find" errors during the hotfix part of the process. Is this normall? Here's a screenshot of a small portion of the errors: