BTW, for the simple encryption you may try
http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/vfp-implementation-cipher-encryption

(I haven't tested it myself).

>So I tried the code you sent and I do have a users.dbf with username, userid and password fields when I inserted the code on the command button OK I get the following errors when I try and run the form:
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>Unkonwn member TXTUSERID
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>if I press ignore same error with txtpassword
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>I am sure their is something I have not done or inserted at a wrong place or ???
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>Any ideas
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>Thanks,
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>Fred