and i cant stress enough how much help you guys give me, i know i'm a pain in the arse and to tell you the truth i havent looked at jens checknics script yet... i've been stuck trying to work out grasshoppers script and i feel quite confident in using the registry, i'm only changing a few keys i know and only changing values that i definitely know can be changed, regardless of the registry itself the machine can be rebuilt if i screw up, this is why we keep images in case of people like me lol,

secondly i think mr kdyer has just answered what i needed to know, the keys i was changing were windowsnt keys and now i know the full code for the respective windows 2000 keys i think i should be able to change them,

and should i get stuck i think i'll reenter the bb as someone else just to hide from you lot lol,

Thanks again everyone, you're too much help and i know what a pain it is trying to reverse engineer someone elses code.

Much appreciated guys, and jens i'm gonna go and take a look at your code to see if it can help,

Anth