I am trying to set some PowerPoint slides to work with pptview.exe for different days. Just Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We are going to start using Monitors in our club to project the slides instead of Printing them. (It cost to much) The bat file is @pptview.exe /L "Friday.txt" But when I schedule it. It runs with no problem. Then on Saturday it runs Saturdays with no problem but the Friday one is still running in the background then I cannot copy the new Friday.PPT to the directory. I need to find a way to add something to the BAT file that will stop the pptview.exe for Friday from running before the Saturday one starts. I tried to use the Kill command but that didn't work. Thanks in advance. Doug

Hi Doug, you are asking a Windows XP batch + schedule question, but this is DOS forum. So you have asked your question in a *wrong* forum. Please note that Windows XP does not include "DOS". The "Command Prompt" in WinXP is just the WinNT/2K/XP system console, which is NOT DOS. Below is the *quotation* from the warning messages of this forum: "DO NOT post questions related to NT Batch scripting on this forum. Use the Programming forum. Use the Windows NT, 2000 or XP forum for questions regarding the Windows NT, 2000 or XP "DOS" command prompt." For more information about the "Command Prompt" (Win32 Console) in WinNT/2K/XP, you may read this page: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/stewartb/cmdprompt.html Some simple questions about WinNT/2K/XP "Command Prompt" commands that are similar to DOS commands may be OK here, however your question (WinXP Batch + Schedule) is too far away from DOS. Try Windows XP Forum or Programming Forum, as the warning messages of this forum say.

SORRY, I just thought that someone in here could help me. I have been looking for two weeks for an answer. And no one what to help with this. Thanks anyway Doug

yay for the many posts we're getting, boo for the fact that people think it has something to do with dos! you CAN make batch files under windows, you know. so it isn't even dos then!