This seems to work great on Win98, after I found that I needed to open a few tabs duruing the Autoit install to get the AutoItX.dll and I added a "second chance" CreateObject line after the autoitx.dll was copied and registered.

But Win95 is still a problem. I can not get it to shut down or to hide the windows.

Thanks for all your help. This board always gets me in the right direction.