Chuckle. What have I created. Nplus are you running a Power PC? Well I didn't uninstall XP when I installed it I did a full install while reserving win 95. ( Which came in handy because it didn't install correctly the first time. I was short drivers and space as I recall. ) Yes you can run programs froma zip but. I agree it's a nuscance. I like the active disk because it senses when I put in the zip disk. Basically my system in the past was a win 95 system on a K7 500 Mhz. 30g harddrive and 10G hard drive which I basically filled up! Then the external modem was installed on a serial port which also hosted a digital camera hookup through a switch box. So I want the active sensing because I use the switchbox which causes me to loose the zip drive connection. Slynk-Good to know that you got the zip to work. Did you have any winaspi32.dll problems? Now the fun comes!!! The parallel port had a four way switch box. So I can switch from laser printer-Hp Scanner, cannon printer, zip drive, and video digitizer. I just don't think windows was designed to handle that. I disliked USB because back in the olden days I didn't have a USB port. So there now you see why my system may have hiccups from time to time. But for what it's worth. My ATARI 520 kicked all of you guys stuff. I just ran across the 13 year old recipt last week. It cost a whopping!!! ...$350.00! I did dtp, video scanning with sound, direct midi hookups, paper scanning,ect. The clock speed was a blazing 12MHz I think. Plus it could multi task! All the power none of the cost!!! Plus I could hack program better!@ Bwahahah. Runns away screaming. Bwahahahaha. Bsteph