Aye, Josh, welcome to Bryce 5! Yippeee! I've never had a problem with my taskbar not showing. You can use Bryce in a sub-window if you have a big enough monitor, or a graphics card that supports dektop-in-window functions, such as the ATI AIW cards or the Parhelion. But even nView supports multiple desktops, and does a great job... Still, I can't imagine why your task bar is hiding, but sometimes for the first few minutes after a cold boot, my Win98 does the same thing for a bit, and Ihave to push the Window key just to change tasks... Then it just goes away, the bug, not the window! But on XP it's always fine, 'round here. (shrugs)