>That's one advantage to using the Event object; Windows releases any Event handles held by a terminated process or thread even if the termination occurs abnormally, such as a call to TerminateProcess(). You also don't run into lock latency issues which can arise in network environments.

Ed, can you explain how your Event object works through network? What is difference between file checking and you method? Sorry for I'm asking that, but I'm not well-experiensed in networking...