Thanks for your reply Donald, but I wasn't the one asking. :)

Steve

>>>I'm really looking for a simple way of ensuring that only customers that have paid for and registered our applications, can actually use them. Something similar to the way shareware works - an expiry date - an opportunity to enter a unique license number based on the company/user name.
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>I don't have it with me, but there was a neat little ditti in an issue of FoxPro Advisor that required the user to get an activation code from you. The activation code that you give would activate the program for their use for a finite period of time, as determined by your activation code. I use a variant of the code in my program. The entire code was in the Advisor. If this sounds interesting, write me and I'll scan my cd to find out which issue it was in.
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>DJ :o)