I've looked up and down in XySearch and I can't find what memory tells me is there somewhere: the optimal settings for all the variables in the Properties of the shortcut for launching Xy4DOS under XP. I'm trying to solve my shrinking cursor problem. Not only does it not "take," in the PIF or LNK (I'm not sure which I have), but my workaround (putting in a pause at the top of STARTUP.INT) gets undone if I either run spell check or shell to DOS.Any ideas? Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx