>>>If you can drop back and go with the idea that they register on your site, and then you can verify when they need an update on the server end. Maybe a restricted site where they must login. Then you can easily push the new file down to them.
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>Hi Jeff.
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>I can live with this. What I needed to know is:
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>1. Once they register on my site, can I have a program running on the server that will read a little text file in their windows directory?
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>2. Can I then, copy a text file with the same name back to their windows directory if the program running on the server decides this is ok?
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>I realize that I probably sound pretty dense and like I don't know what I am talking about. That's because I don't. Hopefully, my state of complete ignorance will be subject to change in the near future. Thank you so much for your patience.
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>Marcia

1. Thats the slashed wrist part. I don't know of anyway to do this from the server end unless its a cookie or you have a activex/com object on client side.

2. Not --that I know of-- directly. You can point then to a download link but I don't think you can place it where you want from your end.
You can have a self extracting file, but --I-- don't know of a way to have your sever kick it off once the client has down loaded.

Hopefully someone else may.

Jeff