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HORRAY - I think Les nailed it - the shell commands your using are not synchronous (fe: not using %comspec% /c ) and therefore this both utils will run at the same time !!! And this might produce inconsistent results.
Ofcourse!!! You guyz rule. Thanx Les. Thanx sealeopard and Shawn. Me happy! [Razz]

Prfpatch.exe should be run BEFORE newprof.exe! If newprof.exe is run before prfpatch has done its work newprof.exe loads default / empty profile settings.

Would a 'sleep 1' suffice?
Or use %comspec% /c (I'm not really clear on how this would solve the problem)?