ok I have a windows 2003 server, running apache. What i want to do is via a php call exec a .bat file called 3868.bat located in c: what is teh php command to do this?

echo exec('c:\whatever\whatever.bat');

i believe it was tried without hte eco and didnt work, ill try with the echo

Thank you so much CyberAlien, the echo was EXACTLY what i was missing.

if you want without echo() then try passthru(), but it will output some extras that you might not want.

ok, also on the same server im trying to execute a .reg file that will auto enter a registry edit, but its not executing, is there a different command we should use?

shell_exec('regedit /S myfile.reg');