if i save the following code on my desktop on windows 7 64 bit and run it, it works fine: Set Minshell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") Minshell.MinimizeAll set shell = createObject("wscript.shell") nError =Shell.Run("%windir%\system32\notepad.exe",1) Wscript.Sleep 5000 nError =shell.appactivate("Untitled - Notepad") If nError Then shell.SendKeys( "%fx" ) Else msgbox "not activated - sleeping" End if It opens notepad, activates notepad, send an alt fx and closes notepad. If you run this as a scheduled task, it still thinks it has activated notepad, but the send keys are not sent to notepad. Any help would be appreciated, Thank you in advance bfanguybfanguy

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