richard, you indeed could use wkix.
the benefit of not even having the console window at all (like my logonscript) thus it runs totally on background.

and these tasks can be then done at the same time user is being logged in and he can even start doing the work before the script finishes.

I have found this really powerfull specially with software upgrades like off97->off2k or IE upgrades.

anyway, like said, this might be worthwhile topic to discuss with ruud.
we have already asked many changes to the way kix does run and shell.
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