Don't know if this will work for everyone but it does for me. I copied the root files, and two directories ('winxp_2k' & 'common')from //Audio/Drivers on my Soundblaster Live CD into a directory called 'LiveDrv' on my XPCD as shown below. The /s switch on CTZAPXX.exe appears to give a silent driver install. I call this up out of my main_batch.cmd file as shown below: start /wait %systemdrive%\Drivers\Sound\Creative\LiveDrv\CTZAPXX.exe /s No surround mixer with this, just the drivers, but that's all i want :-) Only downside is that it takes 34.5MB of my CD up I'm sure i (you) could trim this down Hope this helps someone. Great forum & my 1st post