Really? wish I knew that before!- so if I burn the info to a CD all I need to do is put it in and play? the ISO came on 2 CD's, still OK?

I thought I had it for a momment, there is a folder named "crack" with a .exe file in it, I've tried moving the .exe in the programme and replacing it with that one but got a new error message instead.

I know the old saying of "if you cant crack it buy it" but i'm detirmined to do this!

No probs re: the multiple CDs...

Beware of most 'crack .exe' files... They are not necessarily all bad but you need to be considerably out of your skull to do anything with any of them until you have done some serious AV scans of the file(s) !!!

You may only need to locate a document file with the odd bit of info in it !

btw... None of the other mods or super mods here have yet commented on your delightful restraint in NOT mentioning the name of the app that is currently causing you moderate brain overheating if not structural damage !!!!

Ta for being cool about your questions !!!

- you make it sound so easy!

Dont worry I ran norton on it until that got as frustrated as I was!

It was all going so well ......

One of the easiest ways to do what you wish is to use NERO...

Just use the Burn Image function... You may need to enable the 'geek' view of the interace instead of the mom and pop dumbo default !
When you select the Burn Image function you will be prompted for the name and location of the .iso file(s)... One at a time, and (please) don't do anything else while the burn takes place... Give it a chance with no browsing or music playing or whatever !!!

Many of the apps out there are quite happy to be installed FROM CDs that you have burned from .iso - and then you must configure the no-CD capability.

Thought I'd have one last stab at doing it CD'less, moved the .exe files around again and got the following error message:

"Unable to initialize the ASPI Manager, ASPI support information was not found"

I know i'm close because it nearly loaded.

what do you recon?