The Security SetUp story begin in mid 1997, I used a lot of my time setting up computers for friends family etc. etc. but after a week or so people had a tendency to trash the computer setup.  In the good old days (Windows 3.11) you could make some changes to the ini files within the windows directory that would prevent people from messing up the Windows configuration, however these settings did not work under Win 95/98/NT.  I did some research and discovered how Microsoft infact had included some security options under Windows 9X / NT, actually I discovered that there was already a few products on the marked that could deal with this problem, however these products was fairly expensive $49-$200. The solution to my problems was that I decided to create my own security setup software (hence the name Security SetUp).

In August 1997 I released Security SetUp (V1.00). I did not expect much feedback, so I decided to release the software as freeware with the condition that you had to register (free, but required), this way I could keep track of how widely spread my software would become. ... BIG MISTAKE.....  During 1997-1998 I recived more than 12.000 registrations, this was about 11.700 more than I had expected and did cause some problems, it is hard work supporting software over the internet especially in that scale...

Along came Windows 98 and some new features needed to be added to Security SetUp, unfortenatly my time was fairly limited due to my job as an IT-Consultant, in August / September 1998 I finnaly released a beta version of Security SetUp II and with the skilled help of my betatesters (thanks guys) I was ready for final launch on October 1st 1998.

Security SetUp II - Light is released as shareware, not because I want fame and fortune, but as I have used a lot of time supporting / developping this software I think its fair I get a little in return.  I have had to rent web-hotel space and upgrade my phone connection (ADSL), thus it has not been without cost for me.  I think that the pricing of Security SetUp is fair, if people dont want to pay they can just use the Poledit.exe program supplied (freely) by Microsoft (at the loss of the userfriendly interface :-)..