Thanks for that, I was just about to give up.

Yes that works fine.

Unfortunately this made no difference. I had tried the "waitwindowclosed" command before without any luck. If I have no wait command at all, then it jumps straight into the screen saver, but if i move the mouse and stop the screen saver the mpeg will still be running in the background. To give you a...

Thanks Mate

I will give it a try and let you know how I get on. Cheers

I am an apsolute beginner, so be kind. I am trying to apply a wait comand in my script simply to allow one program to finish before starting the next. RP_WAIT=1 doesn't seem to work for me. I think the PR_WAIT is working but the second part of my script executefile does not execute. If I remove the ...