Thankyou for your reply (and sorry for cross posting )

the only reason i wanted to go down the road of files, is that its for a school network i manage.

The idea was, is the fist time each day a student logs on, our news page on the intranet opens, and doesn't the next time untill the following day.

because students use different computer, and have mandatory profiles i dont think adding this info to the registry is a possiblity.

any ideas?