Man you folks are awesome! that looks just like what i need... a bitto fanagling and it should be perfect!! thx

Does anyone know a good site for learning how to edit the registry from inside a program? thx

Hey thanks alot folks... thats an amazingly fast answer to my problem!!! now i gonna have to learn some more stuff :-D

I guess i should clarify, security isn't that important, really i just don't want to have a text file with the strings in it... Its for an ftp program, where you can write in lots of different usernames and passwords so it remembers them all for next time... the registry is where i do that? thanx for the replys.

I have a dialog box application that I would like to remember some strings that i type in for the next time the program starts... I don't want to just write them to a text file for obvious security problems, i was thinking more like writing them to a string table, but i don't know if i can do that while the program is running rather than while programming it... Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated and i can give more information if need be. thx ix