Program was made with Visual Basic 6.0 I see... and using PEID I find that its using armadilla protection. I dont know if that matters. Its about 8mb extracted. I could probably even extract the contents of the extracted exe but I dont know if its gonna do any good. I just want to find out what drivers/services/reg entries/ the program is relying on. I know during the install I see files goto c:\windows\system32\ so maybe it would just be useful in this case and in any other case to have some kind of tracking to see what the installer modifies or creates in the case of viruses as well as trying to make something portable. I know UPX could compress it and make it to where its just one file that I need to run the program but I dont even need it to be one file a folder would be just fine to keep on my USB. Well thanks for the help