Hi Rubber Duck Fans: I was going to use timeit from the 2003 resource kit and c program from stack overflow was DNW i e did not work so we tried powershell with mixed results. PS C:\Scripts> set-location c:\masm32\bin PS C:\masm32\bin> measure-command {start-process c:\masm32\bin\showtime,exe -wai t} Start-Process : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.String' re quired by parameter 'FilePath'. Specified method is not supported. At line:1 char:31 + measure-command {start-process <<<< c:\masm32\bin\showtime,exe -wait} + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Start-Process], ParameterB indingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Comma nds.StartProcessCommand Days : 0 Hours : 0 Minutes : 0 Seconds : 0 Milliseconds : 10 Ticks : 103003 TotalDays : 1.19216435185185E-07 TotalHours : 2.86119444444444E-06 TotalMinutes : 0.000171671666666667 TotalSeconds : 0.0103003 TotalMilliseconds : 10.3003 PS C:\masm32\bin> PS C:\masm32\bin> A couple of question the program showtime writes to the console with the date and time in the long format similiar to get-date. PS C:\masm32\bin> PS C:\masm32\bin> I am right in thinking showtime.exe did not run because two windows should come up. and what is PS complaining about how do we fix it? Also note the brackets are curly brackets as in c++. Regards Alan

Hi, The issue seems related to the script using issue. In this case, I would like suggest you post the issue to Windows Script forum for further help. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/scripting Regards.Spencer TechNet Community Support