"newbie" question for crackers ;)

Changing the name of an object in a VB proggie isn't going to affect the "ease" of decompiling that proggie; you don't need the name to find the related code (whether N or P). The name just makes it easier for us poor humans. The code blocks are related to the object by pointers and not the actual textual ASCII name.

P code is closer to the source, but a bit harder to learn. N code is simply disassembled opcodes, but it takes a lot of them to do a simple task. I would suspect N code is easier to analyze for the obvious reason that thousands of non-VB apps, when compiled, result in the same, well-known, machine code that so many disassemblers can disect; virtually every software reverse engineer has a working knowledge of machine opcodes and can "feel" what the code is doing. It's not necessary to re-create the exact source code, either.

There are a number of progs out there that are half-decompilers; you might want to check their operation and see just what data in a VB exe is really significant in its operation and what is not; at least, then, you could concentrate on the right stuff.

Sarge