"all the stuff" consists of one tiny applet called ClipTrak that I got from PC Magazine

Well, actually I think it skips other stuff, too. I'm pretty sure it skips the stuff in the load= and run= lines in WIN.INI, but I'm not sure about the stuff in the Run and RunOnce sections of the registry. Do peek at those things and see if there's anything there that might cause the bug.

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Tony Fabris