>I am designing a program mostly for home use, but I may offer it as freeware. I am a little worried about saving the password to the registry without some form of encryption. Is there anything I can use to make the password safer.
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>Tim
Yes you need a form of encryption in your code before you save an restore the password from the registry. You can build your self one in VB.

If you are using a LAN, just save the user name in your application and only if the user is log on he will have access to the application. You can read the user name from the registry. When a user is not defined in the application he will not have access.