Hello Joseph, Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:26:05 PM, you wrote: JO> First off, windows has no clue what a fork is, A fork is several different things, and there's no reason why Windows cannot implement a fork via its standard APIs. JO> much less the command 'shutdown -r -t 01'. -r = Shutdown with restart -t = Set the timeout for shutdown (xx seconds) 01 = The timeout value Open a command prompt, type in it. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services Zend Certified Engineer "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php