Brian Henderson wrote:Not unless my method of creating shortcuts--which is what I always used in 9x, but which I'm beginning to suspect is deeply flawed--somehow does just that. Which I doubt. More later.Might you be, somehow, calling "ntvdm.exe" directly? I notice that if you try to execute it manually you get that brief flicker of a DOS box.-- Patricia M. Godfrey PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx