I beg your pardon! And I had been sure it originated on windows platform. I hate it anyway! It couldn't cope very well with a dual OS system. Let's forget that one. In any case, although that utility is specifically for that purpose, other general file utilities can often pick up on softw conflicts. (I tried to do a search for free ones but only came up with shareware http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Diagnostics/)