Right, I have spent 6 hours, trying desperately to produce a windows CD with the rather nice lookin nlite proggy. I was using the latest version; nlite0998bi. I have collected all the info needed, fresh copy if XP files to manipulate from disk. All runs fine UNTIL the VERY last step, when nlite atempts to finalise files. I get the following error msg: Microsoft Cabinet Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. AppName: makecab.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.2180 ModName: makecab.exe ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00004038 I have tried everything humanly possible, even Installing an original version of XP SP2 ! It would still fail. I can believe I am the first one experienceing this problem, but I could not find anything related in this Forum. Has anyone got a clue whats going on ? I apreciate any help/hints Mike