>Hi George - thanks for the swift response and sorry for my slow return!!!
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>I haven't come across Windows Script Hosting... so I don't really know whether I could use that or not... What is it and how do I know I've got it?
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>Sorry to be so dense!

Chris,

Excerpt from MSDN

What you need to get started
The first thing to do is make sure you have Windows Scripting Host. If you're running Windows 98 or Internet Information Server 4.0, you already have it. Windows 95 users can download Windows Scripting Host from the Microsoft Web site at msdn.microsoft.com/scripting.
Microsoft doesn't provide a visual editor for creating Windows Scripting Host scripts. However, Notepad works well for this application.