PrincessdongleMon Dec 7 14:23:43 1998 Domnick,a dongle is a hardkey, a piece of hardware you plug into the paralell port,usually, although there are also serial dongles.It contains code and is used by the program to see whether you are a registered user, perhaps if dongle present you are a legitimate user etc. Dongles can be very hard to crack sometimes containing a jump table in which case they are virtually impossible to crack, mind you given enough time even these can be cracked but by then the program might be outdated.