Ok I've been reading the webpages over on the normal site concerning methods for creating an unattended install and I'm glad to say everything goes smoothly until I reach the section where RunOnce is executed on the first startup. The task window comes up fine displaying all the tasks, except every task that I have listed can't be found by the virtual machine. I've tried placing the files on the hard drive as well, via the '$OEM$\$1\install\' route on the image. When I tried this method with the '%systemdrive%\apps' header on each of the lines in RunOnce, the files were copied to C:\apps but windows still didn't see them. I've also tried to get them to read from the iso image. As you can see currently I'm trying from the image, with no luck. What's wrong? is this a problem with the virtual machine program (VMware btw) or is there something up with my code? Attached is a picture of the error. Much thanks to any help rendered! cmdlines.txt [COMMANDS] "useraccounts.cmd" "RunOnceEx.cmd" RunOnceEx.cmd cmdow @ /HID @echo off FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\CD.txt SET CDROM=%%i: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb REBOOT=Suppress" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Microsoft FrontPage 2003" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\FrontPage2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb REBOOT=Suppress" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Norton SystemWorks 2004" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\NSW2004\NSWSETUP.exe /qb /Reboot=Suppress" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "Real Player Alternative" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\realalt141.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "K-Lite Codec Pack 2.27" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\K-LiteCodecPack\klcodec227f.exe /verysilent /loadinf=".\silent.inf"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Daemon Virtual Drive" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\Daemon\daemon.msi /qb /Reboot=Suppress" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 2 /D "taskkill /F /IM daemon.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\Firefox1.0.6Silent.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Adobe Photoshop CS" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\PhotoshopCS\setup.exe -s -f2"%systemdrive%\ps.log"" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "MSN Messenger 6.1" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\MSN_Messenger_6.1.0202.msi /qn" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "Nero Burning ROM 5.5" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\nero\register.reg" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\install\Nero\Nero551054.exe /silent /noreboot" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f :: REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %CDROM%\install\regtweaks.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\$OEM$\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT Cleanup.cmd cmdow @ /HID shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute..." net user aspnet /delete DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Update.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk" :: RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\drivers\ :: RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\D\ :: RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\apps\ EXIT winnt.sif ;SetupMgrTag [Data] MsDosInitiated = "No" AutoPartition=0 UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [Unattended] OemPreinstall = "Yes" FileSystem=* UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes DUDisable = No Hibernation = Yes AutoActivate = Yes Repartition = No TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendSwitch = Yes OEMPnPDriversPath = "drivers\RAID\PIDE;drivers\RAID\SATA;drivers\RAID\IDE;drivers\USB2;drivers\LAN\Marvel;drivers\Audio" WaitForReboot = No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=xxx EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=xxx FullName=xxx OrgName=xxx ComputerName=Seawolf [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 Vrefresh=75 AutoComfirm=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup= [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 Adapter2=params.Adapter1 Adapter3=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient [NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER [NetProtocols] MS_AppleTalk=params.MS_AppleTalk MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP MS_NWIPX=params.MS_NWIPX [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=Yes UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=Yes AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=Yes WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=0 [params.MS_NWIPX] VirtualNetworkNumber=00000000 AdapterSections=params.MS_NWIPX.Adapter1 [params.MS_NWIPX.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 PktType=0xFF NetworkNumber=00000000 [URL] Home_Page=http://dsc.discovery.com/news/news.html [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 [GUIRunOnce] command9 = "%SystemDrive%\D\BTS_DPs_finish.cmd"