No not really any reason for windows except its what i got at the time but realy hate to change what im used to. I am fairly new to web hosting and have learned a lot at the end of a dirty stick so to speak. I rune a windows server localy and running xampp have had no problems. Then when i uploaded to godaddy it seems to be one restiction after another. I wonder would the iis settings have anyhting to do with the problem i am experiencing?