I am  long time member of EventId. Net and I often am in a position where I am working in very remote locations "no Cell or Internet" and it would be very useful to have a offline version of the Event ID database that I could browse. I know one application that I use for Wikipedia that allows for me to download the entire database for portable use from my USB drive. Below is what I use for my mobile version of Wikipedia.

http://wikitaxi.org/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index

Very cool and sounds close to what I was talking about, I'm going to have to try this on a test system to see how fast and destructive it is But thank you for the direction..

I faintly recall something that I used on a system many years back "w95/w98" the Idea is to be challenged for a password during the boot process and if the wrong password is entered you boot. BUT if the Wrong password has been entered " a pre determined number of times" then the system will display the splash screen but is actually wiping the drive in the background.

Again many thanks to all who do what I cannot wait is that "Fortran!"

Joe