Steve,

> the program

Presumably you mean the Cobol compiler?

You're stuffed, as far as I can see. Without knowing which version of which 
compiler nobody can help you, and personally I don't think many of us get 
into the details of the registry entries for specific compilers. The 
registry is set up and maintained by the compiler itself.

If you had a registry editor and knew the publisher of the compiler, you 
could go looking for that publisher's name and (after backing up the 
registry) removing entries there. But you'd still have to do a re-install.

Over to anybody else, but I think you're going to have to recover that CD. 
And let it be a lesson to you about "lending" software :-)

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Doug

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