I tried just about everything I could think of, and can't make it work. I tried using Color() to set display colors to n/n, but the system ignored this setting and did w/n. I tried to hide the console and get the information, but that didn't work either. You might try shrinking the display window, I didn't try that yet. I think you might wind up having to write a small program to accept some input will displaying asterices that then saves the input to a file or to the registry and then read that from your script. I can't think of anything else to try.

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Regards,

Brad
Consultant
Net InfraStructure, Inc