Robert, On your OED site you wrote: "One glance at the OED4 directory structure reveals that it too is an ordinary haXe/Neko/Screenweaver app, built precisely on the SOED6 model and containing all required libraries. Therefore, you can launch the OED without SecuROM by starting it with the standard Screenweaver boot loader, swhx.exe (144Kb) instead of the SecuROM-encumbered oed.exe loader (5032Kb; 6736Kb in v4.0.0.3). swhx.exe is freely downloadable from haxe.org: extract swhx.exe from the "swhx/tools/" subdirectory of swhx-1,2,0.zip, locate that one file in the base directory of your OED4 installation (where app.n also resides), and then delete swhx-1,2,0.zip, which you no longer need." I'm making two assumptions from the above: 1. A fresh install of OED does not put SecuROM on your drive and it's installed only when you launch the program for the first time with OED.EXE. 2. If you follow the regular install instructions and launch with swhx.exe instead of oed.exe...and thereafter...you will not get either SecuRom or its registry entries? Michael Norman