If someone could give an example with screenshots how to patch a program to work in win9x with a hex editor, I would be very interested. Many free programs seem to fail due to their license manager, which is a sad failure for free programs. If it can be done manually, it should be easy to make a program that does the pathes. Furthermore, if a newer version of a dll is needed, I would like to rename that dll and patch the program to call the renamed dll, rather than replacing the original windows dll. Maybe one could even preload that dll in a VBscript so that it does not have to be in the windows directory. Today, this is needed for Win9x, but some day for winXP too I presume. Best regards, Anders