Hello Martin, Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 12:13:18, you wrote: MS> This is completely nonsense! I work exclusively with NT and I'm using MPLAB, MS> PICSTART, PRO MATE and ICE2000. All tools are working fine. They may work but NT does not allow direct access to the ports. -- From Jamie Dainton Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:24:48 The Bat! 1.46 Beta/5 Windows 98 4.10 2222 mailto:pgp@dainton.org.uk?subject=sendKey -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's