Thanks for your efforts guys and gals

I DO have to use the switch: /C
in the shell-command because i want to use Start /Wait
And Start is an internal command.

I want my scripts to pause until a program is installed!

I am working on a different solution, where i have the script wait until a process is started and then stopped.

This can be done via the COM-interface: winmgmt

But if the first program spawns anthother proces that lasts longer this won't work.

It's quite fun to observe that in years, it has been stated that DOS is dead.
Never the less the possibilitys gets expanded and are NOT backword compatible.

Only other difference is that DOS is now called a console [Wink]

-Erik