It's to delete a file on startup and it needs to happen before that. Basically here's the issue. A client allowed some of his employees to access the server and browse the web. they now have a virus that loads with winlogon. I have to delete the file before winlogon starts in order to get rid of it. The drive RAID (setup by DELL) is a stripe, so i cannot remove the drive to delete the file. I have created a small app to delete the file, but i have to have it start as a service before WinLogon to delete the file. I may have to reload the server, but am not wanting to as this is SBS2003 with isa and exchange in use, there billing computer for medicare/medicade and insurance providers, and file server. the reload would take a few days. any other suggestions? EDIT: or i could login to the recovery console and remove the file...if i could get out there, but i need to be able to do this remotely. I can't get back there till thursday, and thats not good