Dear Xys, Tried the alt enter on my xy III in win98 and it worked a treat. Then from that screen went into dos. at prompt ran old dos program that worked haltingly under w98 windows. It is running flawlessly. This may be, then, a backdoor to running some dos programs under win98. Haven't tried the Xy under this because I run it by itself via a multi boot. Keep the Xy flag flying, ralph gray