ok, thanks for the help, but i guess i'll just run a script in scheduled tasks to back the text file up if it's been changed (and it'll run every 15 min). my problem now is, when the scheduler runs the script, that big ugly dos window will pop up in the middle of my screen. what i want to do now, is to hide the console window so that it wont surprise me at an inopportune time...i know this is possible, but i don't know how to do it...