Hi, Why is it that the START switch doesn't work when its used on a machine unattended i.e. the following command works fine when you are actually signed onto the box but if it's issued from a routine that's running in the background but when no one is actually signed on it doesn't work. 'C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.exe /c start "My Title" rexx.exe c:\mydir\myscript.rex' The same happens with the scheduler. The above command never actually works unattended but if you are signed onto the box at the time the job is scheduled it runs absolutely fine. Any ideas ? Thanks Paul

run the script under a privledged account In other words the scheduler service may not have sufficent rights to run the command. Usually you would create a admin account with logon as service privs and run the scripts under that account.