>George.
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>>Oh I know. In fact, the best way might be done with C++, and all it does is sit around and wait to process the Windows shutdown message.
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>It could easily spawn DD's task to log the shutdown event.
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>Speaking of that doesn't NT/W2k have an event log file that could be read by his startup app?

Oh sure, but the question is how to track the shut down. MSKB#Q257541 shows how to use the WScript.Shell's LogEvent method from within VFP, but I don't know if it tracks the shutdown. Be a snap in VBScript to implement if it can.