There was some talk about running Fractint from a boot cd. I recall that someone created such a CD, can anyone remind me? I tried the following. 1. Created a DOS partition on my Windows XP. Put fractint on it. 2. Downloaded an ISO image version 3.1 of the ultimate bootcd (see www.ultimatebootcd.com) and burned it on a CD. Fits on one of those tiny sized CDs. 3. Booted CD, which gives you a menu of a plethora of high powerewd utilities. Pressed F6 (boot disks) and then F1 (freedos). When freedos boots, there are some options for more aggressive or more defensive configuration. The default option hung on my Athlon machine, but "more defensive" worked. After it booted, I cd'ed to the DOS partition. Fractint ran great. I abandoned my ATI video board and replaced it with an Nvidia Geforce model because Nvidia has much better VESA support. By this approach you can run Fractint forever, as long as you have a DOS partition to save images and hardware that still supports DOS. Wouldn't be too hard to add fractint to the ultimatebootcd. Could include anything that could fit on a 2.88 mb "floppy". Probably also wouldn't be too hard to make a CD that boots right into Fractint, though you'd lose the ability to edit fractint.cfg Tim