I agree with Aleks. These protection schemes are very simple, like the manufacturers describe them, until you pile them up on top of one another. If Poser were the only app I had to go through this process for I wouldn't mind. But the manufacturers (as CL has) keep telling us this is the wave of the future and we should expect all products to have similar protection. I run dozens of software packages and that simple little process adds up to a hell of a lot of time when doing a clean install... which a lot of us do quite often. Phoenix