Uh-oh. I've tested wbl on real system with i915GM, worked fine. But! When i've tried it in VMWare, if was kinda catastrophic. First boot, after fade-in (with no animation) Windows started registry restore and was rebuilding registry for a long time. Second boot, complete hang, no activity, no animation. Third boot, scanreg started -> system halt. I should say that in VMWare video register manipulation often produces unexpected results. (With latest WLL, it is fine, even hang problems solved). Also, i've noticed that you're fade-in before actually starting win.com? Then it should be like that, i think: - Zero palette - Load picture - Save bricks - Erase bricks (empty shaft) - Animate palette in ~500 ms - Start animation from invisible left - Start win.com Otherwise, no profit. And uh... you're already 3KB, are you shrinking memory on loading procedures? And I would like to see source, and help you (or take all good things for my profit ). You can always contact me via PM or ICQ... Edit: oh, simulate dirty bit? That's awesome if you can, since i was unable to