Sambuckus, What Flak said sparked my memory. Yeah there's a trick to getting nero to read files properly unfortionately I can't remember what it is as it's been over a year since I used Nero and I had it on w95. All I can offer is to read the docs really well, and I think it had something to do with the systray icon for Nero or the associated softwares. sorry not to be of more help, - TJ