Yo, I get the following warning when linking... LINK : warning LNK4089: all references to "ADVAPI32.dll" discarded by /OPT:REF What could be possible wrong for me to get this warning? And could it result in a loss of Data or something?

The linker is optimizing out the unused lib

http://www.mvps.org/vcfaq/ide/7.htm

In other words, don''t worry about it.