You have to place the icon on your desktop on your own; it doesn't do it for you. And on the 98-SE, have you checked your swap file size? Poser in general, and P5 in particular, makes heavy use of the virtual mem pool, and the 9X line is not known for its ability to increase the swapfile on the fly. Have you run a registry cleaner, like WinDoctor in Norton Utilities? If not, you probably have a few dozen, if not hundred, dead links, hanging registry keys, etc etc.