Ok folks, you helped me with a major (my feeling) problem now lets see if you can help with a minor one. I have changed the start up sound to have the opening dialog from the original Star Trek series play. However it gets cut off rather quickly once my other programs start to load. Is there any way to delay the other start ups or to have the dialog play over them? Bootvis will not run due to my dual core processor. So says MS. Any ideas? Windows XP Pro SP3 if it matters.