Richard H. - Thanks for the information; setting ASCII-ON fixed the problem with storing Alt characters. However, now I appear to be having an issue with shell.

When I open a command prompt and manually run the following command it runs fine:
 Code:
D:\IR\psexec.exe \\192.168.1.1 -u XPLaptop\Admin -p abc123ê ipconfig /all'

But if I try to run the same command in a script using shell, then it fails authentication:
 Code:
BREAK ON
CLS
$=SetOption("ASCII","ON")
DIM $Targ, $UID, $Pwd

$Targ = "192.168.1.1"
$UID = "XPLaptop\Admin" 
$Pwd = "abc123ê"

SHELL '%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\cmd /C D:\IR\psexec.exe \\' + $Targ + ' -u ' + $UID + ' -p ' + $Pwd + ' ipconfig /all'

EXIT

Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong in my Shell syntax?

Thanks again for the help.
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