Lord of the rings, I tried your suggestion and changed both bearstart and bearshare to run as administrator, but same thing. I can bring up the options dialog. Uncheck the launch at startup, but even just switching to one of the other tabs on the options dialog box and then going back to the tab with the startup option will show the launch at startup has been checked again. I've tried other options and they all toggle just fine. The problem is bearshare (without bearstart) is what is launching at boot up, so I get the licence expired message every time I boot my system. I can then run bearshare via bearstart and everything is fine, but I'd love to get rid of the annoying expired licence message on each startup of my system.

Thanks,

Bob