Chris Losinger wrote: i was just wondering what kinds of things the masses are writing that require them to be able to run processes as someone else, capture keystrokes, launch processes on other boxes, capture command lines from other apps, detect app launches, etc.. i want to know who apps to not install. Actually, writing processes that run as somebody else could be quite useful. My team writes an installer, which requires admin rights to run. It could be useful for a "real" admin to supply a script containing an encrypted user name and password to an accout that has admin rigths, then regular users can run a specialized isntall without having to know the admin password. Of course, I'm not the one that posted that question, so I don't know for sure what *they* are doing with it. :-D But I did see how doing something like that could be useful. Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.