@massop: I'm gonna test when I get home, but I changed the file properties to read only. I see there's an update waiting for me so I'll let ya know what happens. My guess is the install will throw out a window telling me it couldn't overwrite the file with three options: try again, quit, or ignore. My solution will be (if that's the issue) to add a command to my startup.bat that launches xpadder which will re-write the file over after GameEx launches. This will do that every time GameEx launches though, so not sure if it's a suitable solution or not.