I have been using Utalk for over 3 years from the time it was free. Today, I happened to come across IP Messenger which is available from http://www.ipmsg.org/index.html.en. IP Messenger is free. When I checked the registry for details. surprise surprise, they are similar. Look under HKEY/ Current User/ for UTALK and for HSTools. Both are good programs. IP Messenger does Folder transfer which Utalk doesn't. Utalk has a reminder service which IPM doesn't. Look up the registry entries for both especially under AbsenceStr and kudge for yourself.