hehe....i thought of that idea last night..i picked .wl but .wp does sound more logical...I may switch it :) Thank you very much though! However, I still want to better this code :) is there a way I could do that in my program. I plan on making a fully fledged proggy eventually. It will have an install file that will set a few settings in it, then hopefully it will associate .wl (or .wp, whatever the user chooses) with wperl.exe :). Thank you and everyone else very much. the help has been great :)