Most of these workarounds are lame old news. And if they ever did work at your company they probably won't now. Anyway, I agree with Chris. In the places I have worked Data Security's policies have at best taken away about 75% of their employees effectiveness. Instead of this antagonistic relationship between IT and the rest of the company there should be a willingness to work together. Colin Albert Code Foo, LLC I just need a Macintosh and my operating system collection will be complete.