Hi, I am developing an open source healthcare information system and in order to appeal to physician practises I need to have a 5 click installation process - 4 nexts and one finish... The only item I am not able to do this with on Windows is PostgreSql (which having worked with Oracle for years, this software is superb). Linux is fine. The biggest problem is the creation of the user login, service, password etc. What I am going to test soon is can I simply unzip the contents of Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\... and start the database server via a shell script? Or are their registry or other configuration that the installer does? Since my software uses JBoss, starting the database server when the application server starts is not too big a deal - for the demo at least. thanks Greg PS I think I can get around it but one of the other issues is the automatic disabling of standard username/password for security i.e. psql -U username database -f mydbcontents.sql fails by default. I believe I had to edit conf files though it was a while ago on Windows. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly