I'm trying to get a program working which seems to try to create an instance of an object with this GUID: (excuse my terminology, I've always stayed well away from this part of windows before) 109f6b63-7d0c-d111-95b2-0020afdc7421 Could someone with windows actually installed try to find out what it is? -- Sam Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The strstr() function finds the first occurrence of the substring needle in the string haystack."