Mat,

Is it that you want the User Manager to be instantiated later in the application startup process or that you don't want it instantiated at all?

If the latter, how about creating a factory method that can be overridden...for example, a metnod called CreateUserManager() that contains the following code:

This.Add('oUserMgr', This.oMMFactory.GetClassName('UserMgr'))

A call to this new method could then be placed in CApplication.AddChildren().

Would this address your situation?

Regards,