My situation is a bit different. I have EDS on an old win 98 computer, but need to take the designs with me to either a contractor or to customers. My Dongle is for a parallel port, which I haven't on my laptop. I had an old copy of EDSIV demo, but can't locate it. -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish III Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:33 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: EDS Viewer When we first had to have help getting our Amaya up and running, instead of a tech or melco rep (who were non-existent at the time) another customer came up to help us! She had a laptop and said she took it everywhere-she did just 'craft type' embroidery, but lots of custom work. She had the dongle off the computer at home for the Designshop...just plugged it in her laptop, did all the work with the customer, went home-and either plugged the Amaya into the lap top or put the dongle back on the main computer and downloaded the new design...I can't remember which. But she was very happy doing it that way! I know the service techs for my digital printer/cutter all carry the master operating and service program on their laptops with a 'service' dongle...I guess all the machines will read it....built into the program. That way they can isolate the printers from our computers, reset it, test it, print it, etc. and instantly know if the problem is machine or our programs.... Roland