Atony, thankyou. I have always been warned that if I play with my registry, my bottom will fall off. So . . . to be absolutely certain, from what you gave me: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Coolswitch = 0 in regedit I follow the path as above and in the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop I type the words 'Coolswitch = 0' ?? (bearing in mind I am using win98) (). . . () Graham --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi"