To clarify: . . . by using ResHacker on NTVDM.EXE, so the price is that all DOS programs (e.g., cmd.exe) will show on the task bar with the icon you've chosen for Xy. From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Troop Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:38 PM To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: DIR not working right Harry, you don't say which platform, in this instance, you're running Xy4 from. I had a similar problem when I ran Xy4 under VirtualBox using either W2K or XP as the intermediary. If it hadn't been for that, I would have stayed with VirtualBox. The problem doesn't exist under VMware. I have not yet filed a bug report with VirtualBox.