Thanks Viv

yes that did it .

Nick Mason
>Hi,
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>I've seen a thread relating to it but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with the fix which was seemed to be .
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>"d:\msde\setup" /settings "SETUP.INI " SAPWD=SA /qr
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>I think I'm being a bit dense here but could someone supply me with the idiots guide to what I'm supposed to do here.
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>Don't know if this works but you could just try:
>setup SAPWD="MyStrongPassword"
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>See "Customising Desktop Engine Setup.exe" in MSDN library for more stuff.
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>Regards,
>Viv