zonewalker, thanks for your help, it's good to see you again after our battle of the bluetooth thread!
no prob...I've not been around much cos personal life totally went to the wall about 6 weeks ago... its marginally better than it was but its still lying in a small heap somewhere near the bottom of the abyss at the moment so I ain't going to be around much.... but I thought I'd pop over anyway. by the way punisher have you tried using the visualstudio compiler to produce a setup/install routine for your .exe? you may want to have an play with that too

Pure...
Bullshit...

Grab an assembler and just TRY to say that statement with honesty.
and I must thank specialist for pointing that out... I was of course answering in a general sense in terms of VB.net without getting into specifics.

Z