ok, here is what is happening. I have created my DVD, with about 25 additional programs. My have edited my batch file to delete each sub directory within the install directory after each program gets installed. Everything seems to delete fine except for one. I have macromedia studio MX on there, and when the command to delete that file runs after the install, i get an error saying the setup.exe in the FSCOMM~1 dir could not be deleted, access is denied. Then it says that it could not delete that particular subdirectory because it is currently in use. That is the only problem i run into at the time of installation. After everything installs, I have a few commands to delele the install folder and a few other temp folders that get used. It delete each folder, but when i gets to deleting the install folder, the batch file crashes and nothing after that runs. i put some PAUSE 's in the batch file, and they all ask me to press any key, except the one right after deleting the install directory. it never gets to that point. once all this happens, i reboot and delete the install dir from the command prompt, and it works without a problem. I have a solution to this problem, but I would like to figure out a way to make it work from the original batch file. The way i do it not, i have a batch command the copy another batch file into the startup directory, so that when i reboot, it will run that batch file to delete the folders that could not be deleted before, and then it deletes itself from the startup dir so that it only runs once. I guess this works, but if anyone has had issues with this and knows of a solution, let me know. If it helps, the macromedia studion MX i am installing is the one i pulled off of the Windows nemesis ISO i downloaded.