HEXbytesolution to 3Fri Dec 18 08:29:52 1998 Well I see I'm late posting on this one ;) Just checked in this morning and found the task 3 question. I usually try to avoid NOP's and use other methods like at location 444b7c change 741b-eb1b, but to keep with the question at location 43fa09 change to NOP NOP. Isnt that a funny sounding word?Anyway you can also change location 43fa09 to 4048:the 40 says to increase eax(by 1)the 48 says to decrease eax(by 1)like the NOP instruction the INC EAX, DEC EAX are both one byte instructions, and they don't do any harm to the prog. This is just an alternate to using NOP(there's that funny word again) in case the prog. checks for NOP's at that location...Hope I was clear, as I'm not much of a teacher :( I have it all upstairs but somtimes its hard to get to the finger tips.HEXbyte.