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I beg to differ... This isn't an OS issue, the OS works fine without it. What this is, is a third party screw up, and an ongoing and well known one to boot, (if the MS pages are anything to go by) Why should I have to download a third party patch to reclaim the use of my floppy drive? Can anyone give me one good reason, *why* I should have to think about this at all? Hopefully I haven't got this gremlin, I haven't got Avatar Lab, nor am I ever likely to. I have the Adobe ebook reader archived somewhere along with the bit of software Skylarov got jailed for writing. But neither are installed currently, "nor are they ever likely to be..." But to be honest I was far to preoccupied with why my sims contracted autism over the weekend to look real close, (damndest thing you ever saw... :) What I will do is buy 5.0 when it comes out, then dissect the installer, to find out what it contains, and what it intends to do to my machine. If I find something I don't like, I'll wait a week or so, and download the inevitable crack and run that instead, unless somebody can point me to the law (binding in Germany) that says I can't. My reasons for this are simple enough. I'm living proof that if you tweak XP it breaks, I have a laptop, It's all I've got with me at present. It has a hot swap drive bay DVD/Floppy, they run of the same IRQ... I'm fighting daily battles just to keep XP running, The DVD blinks in and out of existance every so often anyway. I'm not introducing some bit of crap I don't need into an already unstable system. Ain't happening, period! Because while *P5* will be new, there is no guarantee the version of InterLok it's cloaked in wil be *any* different to the one that's screwing up today.... "hands up all those that want to install a program that stores thier details, (know and unknown) for possible future (mis)use, and introduces possible instability, depending on you have installed currently, and what else you may choses to install in the future?" Democracy in action... Mac users meanwhile may wish to investigate the link. later jb