I believe you, Smaker1 ("There are no miracle :-) but I must say that VWD is worth every pennies, dollars, euros,.... and I get nothing from VWD saying that!")! I know it's good; I'm just not "feeling the love" currently. So how is you complete version protected? By a Serial number or some link to your hard drive? I know serial number type protection is easy to crack (Gerald's main concern; and fair enough too; there must be an awful amount of hours tied up in his program and not much to see from it {speaking program-wise; definitely not what it can do}) and that linking the program to your hard drive's "fingerprint" is far more difficult - it's just a pain for users when the hard drive self-destructs (Note. I wrote "when", not "if". At the rate at which HDD's are manufactured, their capacities and prices; it's just a matter of "when" - they're just not that well-made any more). You can back up your data but you can't transfer your HDD's fingerprint to another HDD - you'll have to get back in touch with Gerald and get a replacement program. It's not so much a deal-breaker; it's just inconvenient more than anything else; again, imho. Perhaps I'm just being overly bitchy (ie. perhaps I just need something to complain about; I'm one of those "artistic types".......lol). Anyway, I'll be back with more questions once I've gotten myself a complete version................ Thanks again for all your help...........