Dizzie, the "start in" setting in properties for your Poser shortcut, "sets" the working directory. A quick and dirty expnation of why this has anything to do with Poser remembering your settins is; when the "start in" field in the shortcut's properties is left blank, the working directory is not "set" so the system does not know where to tell Poser to look for your saved preferences settings, which is why Poser will not "remember" your screen configuration when you start it up. when you say "correct the shortcut" never works for you, what exactly do you mean? What OS are you using and what exactly are you doing to "correct the shortcut"?