Hey i have a litle story for you, with Registry and Admin Rights etc, ive just left school, and am now in college, when in school i was considered as the admin, because he was never in, and i had the same Q's as him, and i had to give myself elivated Permissions to access the Registry via a few workaround, and i got kicked out of the school, even though i solved the problmes over the network, so i recommend you dont play with the registry, unless it is your own comuter, with is being used for testing use etc. Thanks Ethan