I am writing a POS for our school's bookstore and am using a keybaord wedge scanner as you described. In my case I was able to plug the scanner in and read codes right out of the box. I was worried about how I would access it so I thought to try the simplest solution first. I created a simple form with a text box and label. When the text box had focus I scanned a bar code and the numbers (under the bar code) appeared in the text box. Give it a try it may work like mine did right out of the box.

That mite work on good ol' win9x, but it wont with any NT based OS, as you will have duplicate SID (see MCSE docs whereever they may be) on the network and the domain controller will refuse to use then. Maybe there is some other way, perhaps look at the the Deployment sections in one of the Resourse Kits. Good luck :) leppie::AllocCPArticle("Zee blog"); Seen on my Campus BBS: Linux is free...coz no-one wants to pay for it.

What, with C#? This definitely is not worth it. It requires redefining a lot of structures already defined for C++ in the Platform SDK and P/Invoking a lot of function calls. And for what? Something that's done very rarely? If nothing else, doing this in VC++ would be much faster and easier to do. Use the right tools for the right job. Now when Longhorn comes around, many of these functions and structures should already be wrapped - but for right now, you'd have to do it all and it's definitely not easy! Just do it the old fashion way. Right-click on "My Computer", go to "Computer Name" and read the directions. In most cases, your domain administrator doesn't allow you to do this yourself so talk to your IT department. If you're not looking to do this programmatically, you're in the wrong forum big time! This is for C# programming questions. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

Thanks so much:-D