I have updated the device template using the control panel utility however for gpib-nt.com to work with aliases and use IBFIND it need updatdos.exe to set the aliases for dos suport. However this updatdos program is not working at all as it can not read the information from the registry.....(I have uncomented the line in the config.nt file in case you though that:) ) thanks for anyhelp you can give me. Mark