bobdux, Should you ever find yourself in the UK, I owe you at least a dozen pints! I have been going mad for a day as to why the return was always zero when my code seemed correct. I was messing with cscript, testing in VS, other shells, and everything worked there. Then I discovered this post searching for 'execute' since using 'execute_stdexitcode' returned nothing(?) and within ten minutes a received the expected -1 that I had assigned to the variable in my JS. 😄 Brilliant! Thanks ... View more