Hi All, I installed instant client 10.2.0.1 iaw the instructions on my laptop (win2k): Installation Steps: 1. Download the appropriate Instant Client packages for your platform. All installations REQUIRE the Basic package. 2. Unzip the packages into a single directory such as "instantclient". 3. Set the library loading path in your environment to the directory in Step 2 ("instantclient"). On many UNIX platforms, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the appropriate environment variable. On Windows, PATH should be used. 4. Start your application and enjoy. But got the error Msvcr71.Dll not found. The fix: Download Msvcr71.dll and install in %SystemRoot%\system32 The problem's documented on Metalink : Doc ID: Note:338900.1 I hope someone find that useful. Cheers Tony