I've already written a ActiveX dll, to get the list of DSN in the ODBC, along with their settings, also included in the dll, is the ability to get the list of all OCX/exe/Dll in a path, and their version information, as well as a bunch of other informatino about the system, which is presented through an ASP, you see I am writing a Dianostic site, it'll allow us to to check on the customer's webserver, if they are having problems, through the site we'll be able to see their reasoruces, all their DSN, version informations of any activeX files, etc etc. makes it alot easier than calling them up and asking them ourselves, still need to figure out how to dyanically show the content of each database ( succeeded in the SQL part, not in the Access/Oracle) kind of an online DB browser, already wrote an Online ActiveX version browser, just need to also figure out how to get infomation about the web services running, as you can see this is just a small part of a larger project (also the ActiveX dll is only 40Kilobytes, I only used windows API in it)