Yep, that fixed the problem! Thanks. Only thing is, now i don't get all the great new stuff you implemented in the SP explorer.exe (like the Win2k explorer.exe icon, and 256 color tray icons also seem to be disabled now). Any hope this auto-hide taskbar issue might be resolved in a future release? Also, since i reverted back to the original explorer.exe, will this bring back the stability issues of standard Win98SE, or are those not related to explorer.exe?