no offence taken man you have the freedom to speak your mind I'd never deny you tha, you act civil and aren't being offensive at all, so no worries mate. I suggest you google GPA(GNU Privacy Assistant) it's what I use. Download the file that works with your OS...make sure when given a pop up box to check which files to download that the GPA is checked. After you download it you should be able to find your GPA start up in the start button menu and then you need to generate your public and private keys. You get that far and I'll help you thru the rest. PM me your public key and I'll teach you how to import public keys and add keys to your keyring , then we can encrypt files in abut a minutes time. X) nomad