To run this tasks a good way can be running a daemon. The daemon must be run by administrative user. when you request a task ( a command parhaps ) php request to the request pool of that daemon. And wait for execution status. On getting SUCCESS php will show "it was successfull". Of course you have to write your own daemon. Thanks -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php