HI, i got the application switches figured and and if i make a folder on my c: drive i can get the batch files to work find and install the programs, but the only problem is i'm going to be installing these same programs on multiple comptuers and it'll be a pain to copy the folder from the cd to the hd on every computer i wanna put the cd in and have be able to run any batch file and have it install from the cd-rom (and i can't assign 1 specific drive letter since every computer will be different) i tried %cdrom%\path but that came back (windows could not find path)