Believe me I would rather run the program in the background and just go silent. The problem is these users don't want to wait for spybot to finish or think the script is locked up so they control alt delete and end the kix script. My users ar too smart for their own good! I need to have spybot finish the scan before the script completes since it draws near 100 cpu utilization. When I used the run command instead of the shell command spybot would lock up the pc if the user clicked on an app during the scan. The scan can take up to 3 minutes or longer on the old machines so there lies the problem. I thought about a logoff script but have no idea how to make it work with windows 98.