Yeah I did that. I made my batch file append a text file to my C drive if it ran and then had my kix script do the same. I ended up using that method to figure out that my batch file was running but the kix file wasn't so i moved kix32.exe and my kix file to the sysvol/shutdown directory and everything worked fine. I also changed my paths in my batch file to relative instead of full unc paths... thank you for the help all...