Sorry it took so long to get back to this. Other things were taking up my time. As to my specific problem, I originally tried to register for this forum using my home email address. The process seemed to go fine, except I never received the verification email to activate my account. I requested numerous resends, but received none of them. And yes I checked my "spam" folder, but none of them went there. I was finally able to register using my work email address without any problems. Note that my home address contains a special character - an underscore ("_") - while my work address contains only alpha-numeric characters. I really would prefer to use my home address rather than my work address for this forum. Just as an aside, the only other time I have had a similar problem was when I registered for the PC Tools forum. Is it possible PC Tools and Alwil use the same forum software and it is causing a problem?