I begin to see what Robert means about the same old same old, but here goes again: Michael is planning to get a new PC at home and wonders about getting Xy to work with Gates' latest garbage. Why be forced into using GLG? Buy your new PC from a mail-order house or a local clone shop that will sell it WITHOUT an OpSys installed (if you really want to strike a blow against monopolies, get an AMD CPU as well). Buy a copy of Win98Se from a liquidator (look in the back of the latest Computer Shopper, or you may find one at a local show and sale, if there are any in your area). Partition the drive and install Windows yourself. The only gotcha is making sure that there are Win98 drivers for any components (VGA cards, modems, CD-drives, Network card if any); in my experience, the white box dealers, both local and mail-order, carry components meant for both new machines and upgrading older systems, and so DO have such drivers, but do check. Three Geeks and a Goat IS your friend. About the icon: don't try to open it in Netscape. Save it to the hard drive, then Right click your XyW shortcut, Choose Properties, then Program, then Change Icon, and browse to wherever you saved it. You should see a thmbnail of it; I like the XY4, and am using it so I don't have to look at the fine print to see which is XyDOS and which XyWin. Thanks to Jordan. About paths: Win9.x doesn't really need an autoexec.bat file, unless you're running some legacy hardware. If one needs to reset the path to run a DOS app, I've found the following works well: The path command generates a statement of the current path that itself, if typed from the command line, would set the path to that. So go to the MSDOS prompt from Windows. You'll in all probablility be in the Windows folder (prompt will read C:\Windows). Type PATH>C:WINPATH.BAT (that's the greater than symbol after the "path", and it pipes, or redirects, the result of the path statement to the new file winpath.bat). Fix your DOS app to load with a batch file that sets the path as you need it, launches the app, and then (i.e., AFTER the app has been closed), resets the path by calling winpath.bat. For example: PATH=C:\XY4DOS;C:\ CD C:\WHATEVER EDITOR CD C:\WINDOWS WINPATH Of course, if you have Xy and any other DOS apps on a separate logical drive, and your data on yet a third, you never have to CD on C:. Patricia