If you have (or expect to have) any hyperthreaded or multi-core systems, make sure you create the initial image on one of those machines - the multi-processor windows kernel runs fine with no real performance penalty on a single processor system - but if you do the initial install on a single processor (non-hyperthreaded) system it will use the single cpu kernel. When that image is deployed to a multiprocessor machine, you will only be able to see a single processor. To my knowledge, you can't change the kernel without reinstalling windows. They did this to me when I got my last new system... took forever to figure out why on earth almost every diagnostic tool reported that my system was hyperthreaded, but windows refused to show two CPU graphs, or give me the performance advantage that I expected from a hyperthreaded system... Dan -- **************************** Daniel Armbrust Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic Rochester daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu http://informatics.mayo.edu/