I knew I had posted this previously in this thread and without looking to check, I also remember placing this path at the top of the tutorial... The MSI is placed here by Microsofts distributed EXE... "%allusersprofile%\Application Data\WindowsLiveInstaller\Product" shark i also saw the tutorial, but the strange thing is that now in 4 machines (all vista ultimate) this path doesn't exist. i also ran searches for .msi files and i couldn't find anything. i only found some temp files for the windows live installer. maybe the spanish installer behaves different, i don't know. will try it another machine and hopefully later i can get my hands on an xp computer to check that out. happy holidays!