First off, I am new to this forum so please bear with me. We currently are running several different brands of plcs and the one that gives the headaches is the Automates. Since these were created in the days of dos, we have to run virtual pc on our laptops to be able to run Win95 for the Automates. I have read that you can run APS in Win2000 and I have done this. The problem is that when going online the database doesn't appear in the logic. I have been told that the batch files have to be rewritten. Here is where I have the problem, no one has told me how hss to be written in the batch file. Does anyone know this answer? Thanks