Dr. Trevor J. Hutley paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: >WHERE is this Norton file/message lurking in my Al-book? If it's displaying a little message window (probably a simple java message window) at Start-Up, then the file, wherever it is is INIT'd , meaning it's an init, meaning, it's part of the initialization process, so, on launch it is an 'executable script, abnd the OS 'executes' it, as it should. (technically) <laughs>, > >Why does it think I have these Norton products still installed? software doesn't think, it executes (uh, 'theoretically') ~flipper