OK. Well, what you're doing seems the most sensible way of achieving that to me. I'd just think if you have a quick entry method, there's no reason for the client not to see the result. But, you understand your business rules better than I do, I guess. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

No, I we're just toying around with your hypothesis about a 32 bit Int. 32 bits make 4GB so the 2GB limit should then mean that we're dealing with a signed integer. That would turn negative at 2GB and start over from zero at 4GB. So 5GB would be read as 1GB, but I could be wrong of course. You won't need an extra batchfile to change the boot.ini, that functionality is built in, see here.[^] The rebooting hassle I have no solution for though.

The name is based on the name of the Class, so no - not unless you want to re-compile .Net from source... if you can even do that. "Quality Software since 1983!" http://www.smoothjazzy.com/ - see the "Programming" section for freeware tools and articles.