Dan E.

depending on how friendly you want to be, you could check for the GUI process running before running the removal. If it is, either fail the upgrade or kill the process depending on how you want to approach it.

I unfortunately skipped page 2 of this thread and was wondering why the xcopy command was copying all of the contents of the SMSPKGn$ share and made a little more flexible workaround. Instead of needing to reference the package name in the xcopy command, you can instead: 1) Create a batch file and name it, for example, install.cmd in the USMT x86 source folder with the following content(s): xcopy "%~dp0*" %Systemdrive%\USMTbits /herciy 2) in the Xcopy task sequence, change the commandline to simply "install.cmd" This can be done for each XCOPY TS and eliminates the need to reference the Package ID.

Great post. If only Microsoft's documentation in general was this clear! FYI, I think Peter's post with the sample code changed as the link in your first post is dead. I think it changed to: http://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/capture-user-files-and-settings-offline-winpe-or-online-fullos-with-configmgr-2007/