Thanks for the response. I'll try to think differently <g>.

>Anyone who installed the VFP 8 BETA and ran it from some time in 2002, found that Saturday morning, February 1, 2003 the VFP 8 BETA stopped working. This is just one aspect of license control -- a time out date.
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>Another aspect is a secure activation key which could include among other things the number of simultaneous users, certain extra cost features, and a time out date.
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>Most application software is written with a single concurrent user interface, and no time out date.
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>It takes some effort to develop and maintain such a license control system, but it does address the problem you face.