I administrate a computer lab and we build an image and use Symantec Ghost to load it into the lab PCs. I need an exe file to run once as ADMIN when the first USER logs on. I was looking at runas in a batch file but it doesn't seem to have an option to put the password in the command line (like "net use"), it only has the option of prompting you after the command is run. The user that logs on will not have the admin password. Is there a way to put the password in the command line or another way to do this altogether? Thanks for your help

bbarry, Been a while since I did any programing, but seems to me you could simply define the password (within quotes?) as string data and then echo the string? Would that publish the PW? HTH. Ed in Texas.

Not really; it doesn't seem like runas.exe uses standard I/O. It rejects anything piped in, be it command or file. He might want to try setting something up with schtasks.