the brochure provides answers to such questions. no malfunction possible and no false alarms. dan, i hope you have found what you were looking for. funding that was generous in the beginning failed to keep up with rising costs, but leaders were afraid to ask the people to pay more for their community's schools - or to let them do it themselves. so i’m thinking i can use this trick of running process monitor under the local system account and have it log activity during the log off, to try to get some more information. 