The program is 'farmed' out and runs in the background without a gui or anything in order to not disturb or alert the user. (It's not a hacker tool. More of a config checker) Not alerting the user is a big ticket for this thing so, no pop-up windows or rebooting can be done. :( Once it's done, I dont want it floating around on the computers so, it needs to delete itself. I have the "Farmer" program going back around and removing it now but, I wanted a more elegant solution instead of constantly checking if the tool has finished.. blah blah. I tried the batch file method and back tic'd it to the shell but, always got a 'permission denied' due to the process locking the file. Thanks