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>>Hi Gunnar, I've just e-mailed you an alternative technique using PDH.DLL - I am not sure if this is available on Win98 or if copied to a Win98 box is going to have its dependencies satisfied. Hope this helps.
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>>Wow, the auto acknowledgment bounced back before the screen could refresh - that is sub 1 second !!!
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><vbg> nice and fast just how i like it <s>.
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>i already send you an e-mail back, because the .prg was blocked by outlook. i know there is a way (hacking the registry i belive) to unblock that, but could you please resend the file changing the extension to .zip.
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>thanks!

Done. I will be very interested to know if it works on Win 98. PDH.DLL is sitting in my System32 folder, not so sure about 98.