I'm not talking about Authenitcation / Verification most software do that quietly in the background. Its the ones that phone home and than pop up ads about new offeres available. I just want to load up notepad and type text without worrying about it phoning home to check for updates all the time, and to disable these features its usualy burried deep somewhere. Its nice to have these functions but its usualy a the expense of buggy software or performance. Thats it!!! I'm giving up Photoshop I'm going to load "Koala Paint" on my C64 ;)