Repeat after me: Curse you Bill Gates, Curse you Bill Gates, Curse you Bill Gates, Curse you... I noticed Win98 is much worse in this area than Win95 was. There is a line in the program properties - "start in", but it doesn't seem to work anymore, either. While we are at it, how the heck do you get a list of the files in a directory that you can cut and paste into a document? I can't find anyway to do it, you used to be able to go DIR>Myfile.txt from DOS, but I'm clueless in Windows 98/85.