Thank you for your help Alexander and Andrew and Frank. The permission fixed it.
One question though, I already had "read" permission. Why should it necessary to have "write" permission to allow %RegRead to work? -- Dan Using: The Bat! v2.10.03, BayesIt! 0.5.4, MyMacros 1.10 Windows 2000 v5.0 - Build 2195 - Service Pack 4 -- Daniel A. Grunberg Kensington, Maryland, USA homepage: www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/ ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html