I am facing a typical difficulty. I have a job on hand where in I am required to supply new hardware, about 50 machines & install win2000 on all of them. The applications to be run are not compatible with XP. The client has the retail licenses collected over a period of time. Due to budgetory constraints all the hardware is not going to be the same.

What I want to do is install a number of freeware applicatins that require installation as well as a number of applications that only need simple copying.

I have tried to use the same directory structure as in Xp, i.e. $OEM$, $$,$1, $Docs & $Progs. For whatever reason I can't get the $Docs & $Progs folders copied to the system drive.

Can someone guide me to a link or a site where I can get more info on the structure?

Thanks for all & any help.

AFAIK Windows 2000 doesn't support the $Docs and $Progs folders. Why don't you try "$1\Program Files" and "$1\Documents and Settings" instead? As long as you're sure that's where the folders end up, I don't think this will be a problem.

Thnaks. I will try it out. If this works it will save me a whole lotv of headaches of creating scripts for copying & moving folders.