WannaXP

I'm responsible for the unattended installs at my medium to large company that has 10,000 workstations and laptops. I've used Ghost in the past and I'll say I don't necessarily have a favorite. I'm with schalti in that I feel they both have their shortcomings. AMEN to that!!! Fero

Phurious -- Check out these two links: 1). http://home.comcast.net/~stewartb/getkv.html 2). http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/ Your looking for INPUT.COM in "Horst's PBats" link on the left part of the screen. Let us know how it turns out. Feroceles

I found this site when searching for information about CD based installs of WinXP. It's a great site and has tons of useful info!!! Thanks to whoever is in charge and to the great folks on this board! Nate PS Finding this site = even less sleep for me.

@hyp3r I don't know if you still need this info, but I'll post this anyway just in case someone might find it useful. When creating a shortcut using VBS you use the Object.TargetPath property for the executable and Object.Arguments for anything you wish to have entered after your executable. Here's a link to MS's WSH doc: WSH Documentation (as of 1/30/04). Also, if I'm reading your script correctly WSHShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings isn't really doing anything. According to MS's WSH documentation this is used to retrieve (or expand as MS puts it) environment variables. Also, it'll only return variables within the PROCESS environment space only. Given the two points above, your line: MyShortcut.TargetPath = WSHShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(AppDrive & Quote & " " & Quote & strDrive & "\IBOS\Overtime\Secure Overtime.mdb" & Quote & " " & Chr(47) & "wrkgrp" & " " & Quote & strDrive & "\IBOS\Overtime\eobot.mdw") Should be split into two lines: MyShortcut.TargetPath = AppDrive & """ """ & strDrive & "\IBOS\Overtime\Secure Overtime.mdb" MyShortcut.Arguments = "/wrkgrp" & " """ & strDrive & "\IBOS\Overtime\eobot.mdw""" I also removed your Quote variable and replaced it with double quotation marks. Easier read if you ask me. I tried to find the doc that discusses using multiple quotation marks, but couldn't find it. I'm not exactly sure what your AppDrive & Quote & " " & Quote & strDrive & ... etc... is doing. I'm not an Access person, but the resulting "Target" isn't anything I've ever seen: "X:\Y:" "Y:\IBOS\Overtime\Secure Overtime.mdb" /wrkgrp "Y:\IBOS\Overtime\eobot.mdw" Shouldn't this read somthing like: "Y:\IBOS\Overtime\Secure Overtime.mdb" /wrkgrp "Y:\IBOS\Overtime\eobot.mdw" Hope this helps! Nate