note fluffyvoidwarrior If you have a local windows network connection you can issue remote shell commands<br><br> For example we use this to reboot a remote machine<br> I don't see why you couldn't use perl to issue these commands directly or call a batch file<br><br> shutdown /r /m \\wibble-win2003<br> mstsc -v:wibble-win2003 /F –console<br><br> Checkout the windows command reference, it's a very good resource for windows shell scripting. I don't know if it comes with non-server versions but it's downloadable from microsoft. <br><br> Note:<br> Log on to target computer over local network as administrator or it won't reboot cos you don't have permission. 994251 994251