Under XP the program simply fails if it is not run with Admin rights, under Vista the program switches to Virtualised mode and certain write and subsiquent read attempts are redirected “transparently” to special USER specific folders. The problem here is Activate.exe is different to the addin executable so Vista detects Activate.exe needs to be virtualised and does so… and if it read back from what it considered the KHLM tree it would see the virtualised user specific data… but as the Addin has not written to HKLM tree it is not virtualised and so it’s read of HKLM to check the activation user and and keycode are not redirected to the user specific virtual store and see’s the real HKLM tree that lacks the activation data. The Solution I see would be use the HKCU user specific tree. I would never recomend disabling UAC in Vista for one simple reason… Vistas security model ASSUMES UAC is in place and so windows defender for Vista fails to even look at settings that require UAC intervention to perform. These same settings in XP SP2 are monitored and changes flagged and allerted for user confirmation ofchanges by the XP SP2 specific Wndows Defender.

When you tell us to read the directions, don’t assume we all know to right click and run as administrator. Some of us are very new to Vista. Like me. Besides, I am blonde and need all the help I can get.

Thanks for another great program!