Thanks fr your great work! All is working well except my dialog box is not automagically closing after making my custom setting changes. Is this expected behavior or am I missing a setting. My .cmd file contains the following: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Setting visual effects..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%windir%\system32\visualeffects.exe /custom=00000000001 /silent" /f Thanks once again, Andrea