I have a bit of trouble understanding your last post... DirectX9 is installed I install it later didn't want to slipstream it at the time... as for hfnetchk thing I donno much about it except thats what I was told to get. As for wmp yes it maybe the case it wil not work without IE. Can anyone confirm this? If thats the case am fine with leaving it out I almost never use it. but do use it sometimes like once a week maybe. I would just like to know though if the problem is my end being new to this and having, I admit gaps in my knowledge at this time. although on a positive note I do now know more about windows today than I did last week. as for the hfslipcmd I was using an older one. The one I first downloaded when i first came to this site last week using the newer one now though. either way job well done to the people here... for my first time doing this to only have 2 problems and one just due to a possiable bug thats not bad. Show this to be a well thought out and well done job. Not to go off topic of this post... But I'd like to be able to alter the boot thing so like the original W2K CD it aske what drive/path do I want to install to and do I want to format to FAT32/NTFS. What would I need to change so it always asks me this? As I did the first time round have trouble getting W2K to install were i wanted it to. It just seemed to choose on its own and install. But with the original I always got to pick and format if i wanted.