llTongueInCheek = .T. if llTongueInCheek Really? Strange...my <i>theoretical</i> customers didn't seem to mind at all. I just filled the screen with a pretty splash image that has a horizontally scrolling gradient on the bottom...they're <b>completely</b> mesmerized by it. (Works for Microsoft right?) endif llTongueInCheek>>Hmmm...true, but you could unencrypt it just before running it. In theory, it seems to me, a program could be written (not necessarily in VFP) to unencrypt the file to a random name as a hidden file, then delete it when the app is closed. Not bullet proof, but a few more obsticles.