i'd love to know how to do it myself i've found another way. opened MMC, Add/Remove Snap-in, Add, selected Event Viewer, Add as Local, saved as Console1.msc, opened it in Notepad and copy/pasted "binary" stuff to original eventvwr.msc in Notepad too clever, huh ? :0) do U know, where are the bitmaps for gpedit.msc ? needs to be done too 8)