Lester,
WRT you locked files, I think Geoff may be right about DrWatson.

> It is a rare occurance now, but W2k is STILL not acceptable to my end customers.

I can see that you have pretty strict requirements.
For me, W2k is what I use for development and what actually suggest them
to use; otherwise, they are going to use Win98SE o ME, go figure!

> I think 90% of my time should be paid for by Microsoft - I've just spent 3 days
> putting my development machine back together after a W2k crumble.

I've been developing with W2kpro for more that a year now, and I never
had to reboot the machine other than shutting it down at the end of the
day when I go home.
I must have been lucky! <g>

This is really drifting OT...

Ciao
--
____
_/\/ando