Sorry no change for me. I had already set the compatibility tab of bsloader to run as admin and XP SP3 mode. I uninstalled the old version of BSLoader and downloaded/installed the new version and made the appropriate compatibility setting as you requested, but no change in behavior. It still doesn't change the date back to 2013 and it was still left in memory and had to be killed in task manager. Also, When Bearshare started up it popped up it's dialog boxes to get initial setup options. I don't think the old version of BSLoader wiped out bearshare settings. Did you do anything to the new one that would reset bear shares saved settings?

Thanks for all the help,

Bob