After reading Milt Baker's post about being boarded and robbed, I thought about the issue of having confidential information on the laptops compromised. In addition to all the other things we do when online, such as deleting temporary files, deleting history and cookies, keeping up with anti virus, ad-ware and other issues - one should think about encrypting the data on the laptops. Most major companies require encryption on the deployed laptops to ensure nothing is compromised if the laptop is lost or stolen. Many news stories of late with employees having too much sensitive data on their work laptops and they are lost or stolen and creating a very embarrassing and perhaps a legal liability situation for the company or government agency. I use this software and is one more userid and login when you boot the machine up - other than that, you don't really notice and derogation of performance. Google laptop encryption - there are a number of packages available. Jeff on Southern Nights