Thanks for all of your help. I believe that most of my problems have been worked out. I still have issues that after the script runs the pop up window will not go away, nor do you have the ability to close it. You have to go to the task manager to stop it.

Not sure what $HKCUSM is for and why I need to add it to my script. and for that mater how.

Where can I get ahold of the kixtart400 program so I can test my scripts for myself.