pardon my ignorance, but i feel like i'm sooooo close to getting this to work. i'm not sure at all what i'm supposed to be filling in for sections like this: Function EnumProcess($exe, optional $terminate, optional $Computer). in general, i'm not sure what parts are variables in the entire function that i need to do something with. i tried copying exactly as it was from above and got all kinds of errors. so much so, that the script wouldn't run anything before the function! it just killed the whole script entirely. thanks again for your help.