I don't know what I would do without this board. some entries in my runonce are skipped over,and I Haven't a clue why? @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D " Win XP Applications Setup" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\network\map.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /VE /D "McAfee Antivirus version 8.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 1 /D "U:\mcafee\setup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\003 /VE /D ".NET Framework 2.0 (.NET 1.1 is already installed)" /f REG ADD %KEY%\003 /V 1 /D "U:\Framework20\dotnet20f.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\004 /VE /D "Java 5.0.6 Runtime Environment" /f REG ADD %KEY%\004 /V 1 /D "U:\java\jre506.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Shockwave Player" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "U:\Shockwave10\Shockwave10.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\006 /VE /D "Flash Media Player 8.0 r24" /f REG ADD %KEY%\006 /V 1 /D "U:\FlashPlayer\Flash824.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\007 /VE /D "FireFox 1.5" /f REG ADD %KEY%\007 /V 1 /D "U:\Firefox\Firefox1.5.0.2.exe -ms" /f REG ADD %KEY%\008 /VE /D "Spybot Search and Destory 1.4" /f REG ADD %KEY%\008 /V 1 /D "U:\Spybot\spybotsd14.exe /VERYSILENT /NOICONS" /f REG ADD %KEY%\009 /VE /D "Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.7" /f REG ADD %KEY%\009 /V 1 /D "U:\Acrobat\reader707.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Office 2003 SP2" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "U:\Office2003\SETUPPRO.exe TRANSFORMS="U:\Office2003\unattended_2.mst" /qb-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\011 /VE /D "Novell 4.9 SP2" /f REG ADD %KEY%\011 /V 1 /D "U:\Novell49\setupnc.bat" /f REG ADD %KEY%\012 /VE /D "Adding Admin user,turning off the Security Center,Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\012 /V 1 /D "U:\cleanup.cmd" /f The office install is skipped The Novell Client install is skipped. why? are they skipped? lastly during the install of Macromedia flash player 8 I get "Could not register the library for C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\Flash8a.ocx" thanks for all your help guys.