on a serious note...laaaaaaaaaaaaa... well, it may be illegal since one is breaking the licence agreement in terms of useage. however, this is part of life and Microsoft clearly recognise this. I suspect they would simply not support you. also, if modifying the binary is illegal then isn't what Tscale is doing when rebasing and saving out DLL's therefore illegal? loads of 3rd party products change base OS code in memory.. so whats the difference between modifying code image whether be on file or on chip? maybe we should just right a registry saver a la proflwiz.exe... how hard can it be? actually, I started one a few moons ago and ran into some difficulties... Im vague as to the exact details, but it involved a problem with QWORDS if I remember rightly, and that the language I was using to extract the QWORD didn't support a QWORD datatype... and I was way too lazy to define the data structure and immediately gave up! though, thinking about it... I reckon there is a mini-market place to write a flexops like tool. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Wood Sent: 24 November 2005 11:11 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Flex Profiles Kit - License Infringement? well obviously ... as i wasn't here... ;) _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lilley, Brian Sent: 24 November 2005 11:02 To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Flex Profiles Kit - License Infringement? you haven't seen me...right.... -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Wood Sent: 24 November 2005 10:26 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Flex Profiles Kit - License Infringement? The flex profile kit utilises code from the Office Resource kit - which is modified using a hex editor - all fine and dandy open and above board and its mentioned in the doco. Theres been an interesting debate today in the office as to whether that makes the deployment of the tool legal - as the kit ultimately relies on a modified binary. Anyone know/have thoughts on this? Tia. ---------------------------------- Andrew Wood Sunderland United Kingdom ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.csfb.com/legal_terms/disclaimer_external_email.shtml ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.csfb.com/legal_terms/disclaimer_external_email.shtml ==============================================================================