>I know the Windows registry gets written to dozens of times per second - >almost everything the system encounters by the millisecond seems to be >written somewhere in there, and it can be large and placed anywhere. Not >sure about the little CE editions, but they are limited in other ways... Yeah, but that is kept in RAM until the system shuts down - one reason why windows takes so long to shut down. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist