All, thanks for the thoughts. I guess I 'Execute'd a can of worms here. [Wink]

Still, even if the original error is not a Kix specific error, I'm going to try Howards UDF when the next failure of the services ocurs. Per M$, netsvc.exe should work if srvmgr is working (which it is). With all this brain power here, any ideas of what else may be happening? I know a user only needs server operator to stop / start services, so anyone see something like this in the past?

I'll keep the executes, as LLigetfa is right, it is more impressive to the untrained (my co-workers, who still havn't figured out what some of the other scripts are doing to their systems). I switched to the execute command after seeing a post and testing some code here, it just formated a screen print better at one time, and I just adopted it. As I have switched my variable standard.

dang it, bumped my mouse, time to reboot windows... [Big Grin]
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Bumped my mouse again, time to reboot Windoze....