>You can shell execute notepad. But, I would also have concerns about the log getting to big. Is this a continually running process or does it have a definate start/stop point.

Yes, it will run indefinitely

>If continually running and logging I would go for some type rolling log files as I mentioned before, and only show the most recent X items on your form/control as a quick status type display.

Yes, we have rollback capability. For example, the setting currently dumps everything on a .log file every hour. I was just trying to use an approach which would allow more than 32767 characters.