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Thanks again. It's not that I didn't believe you it just took awhile for the light to go on in my head But, I'm sure there is probably some truth in what you are saying about MS.

Many thanks Ed I realized what you were telling me and actually got the thing to work the way I needed it to.

I guess I may have to get a 'Programming for Dummies' book and play around with it. I've tried in the past but, it is like learning another language. Most books were way to simplistic and others were way to advanced so I got overwhelmed and gave up.

Thanks for the input but, everyone is pretty much talking over my head. First it is not a user issue. I am doing everything from the admin login so I don't think that is the issue. There are a lot of ways to do things and I was just trying to do it the easy way. I usually pick up bits and pieces fro...

The AT command. I've googled it and it said - Enables users to schedule tasks to be performed at a specified time and date. I guess I probably didn't word my question correctly. The task is running fine. I don't know in-depth programming to figure out why I can't see the dos-part of the batch file r...

Hopefully this makes sense. I've created a batch file that works fine. Basically it shuts down the computer but also prompts you to stop it if you wish. When I run it from Windows Explorer I can see the echoed statements and dos prompt and the shutdown screen. So I can via the the dos prompt stop th...