incorporate a timer in your app that will check for a flag on the server if this exist will notify the user and then quit gracefully you can have sevral levels ie a certain flag will ask the user nicely , a second will start a system going down msg etc. ) Arnon > Does anyone know of some way to kick all my users out > of a multi-user application when performing maintenance? > Although you send an announcement, some space cadet > always stays in the app causing the maintenance to bomb. > We are running Win NT. >