Lacey, you are right afterall. With the windows sized right and not overlapping, I can work in the first window without Notepad minimizing or the two windows tiling. The AlwaysOnTop download acheives the same thing, but you don't need to resize the first window. I can keep the first window at fullsize and then adjust the size of Notepad and it's position on the screen as I work. To answer the question why I can't just cut©, I can and do sometimes, but when I'm working on my webpages, it helps me to be able to look at a sample or snippet of something in Notepad while I'm looking at my own source code. Thanks for all the help - it makes things easier knowing how to do this now. Col To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk