Thanks again; this is very useful information.
It turns out my client writes some information into c:\windows\system, into some file with an obscure name, as part of a protection scheme. I will recommend changing that to c:\windows (or equivalent), to avoid conflicts in W2K.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
