Morning!!,
the code for win98 is :
$x=writevalue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}","","@wksta", "REG_SZ")

many thanks for your help , any thing you need tested give me a shout - we have win98, nt, 2k, and sco unix

thanks again

loretta