Hi this seems very very cool  But, as a real windows scripting kiddy, I'm unable to embbed the following commands in script files:  I've copied and pasted in text files with .bat and/or .cmd extension and run from win cli but I get this:  C:\>d:\BuildWindowsUpdateList.bat SystemRootd était inattendu. C:\>for /f "tokens=1-4* delims== " SystemRootd e>>list.txt C:\>  C:\>d:\BuildLileWXP.cmd SystemRooth était inattendu.  C:\>for /f "tokens=1-8* delims= " SystemRooth>>Lilewxp.txt C:\> "SystemRootd était inattendu." can be translated "SystemRootd was unexpected." Thanks for your replies Jé