Well I tried searching (using find) the registry (regedit) and could not find a thread that would possibly effect the write permissions for the registry. I did however find the thread to manually set my resolution to 1024x768. This really sucks!! I shouldn't have to make modifications directly to the registry to use my Win2k, these things should be automatic. You know I was just using Win2k as a FTP server, screw it I am just going to continue using Win98 and find a generic FTP server app, I am the only one that pulls from my server anyway so I don't need anything pretty or complicated, I appreciate your assistance seeing as how you are the only one who has replied, thx Ur.