Hi, my command is: start /wait %systemdrive%\temp\sleep.exe 03just some lines before i copied the sleep.exe, sleep1.lsm and sleep.pas into C:\temp but i got no idea for what the lsm or pas file is for... ehrm, in my case, there is also another command window. but he really waits 3 seconds ;-) ------------------------------------ please help me HERE ------------------------------------ ciao, qualle.