>I think David pointed you in the right direction here. I see DOS and I start thinking cscript.exe (which runs in the console). It's hard to say what you should look for other than a significant drop in any one of the three resources monitored. If I were to hazard a SWAG, I'd be inclined to think System rather than User or GDI, but if any or all of these start dropping without being recovered after termination, you may have found the culprit.
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>BTW, the application, c42pdf.exe, does close its DOS window, doesn't it?

George,

I am sorry to dumb, but which three resources are you talking about. I have been playing with counter logs under Performance Logs and Alerts in the MMC. I will try David's suggestion, but I would like to know why CreateProcss does not work. Is there a reason besides simplicity, why one would use WSH rather than CreateProcess or vice-versa?

Thanks!