This may be more a Wnindows question, but naybe someone else has seen this before. The Minimze, Restore Down and Close icons that should be in FS9 in windowed mode are not there, so I can't minimize the program in order to start ActiveSky up. My hard drive had crashed and this only started happening after I re-loaded everything onto the new drive.Any suggestions?

It sounds very much like FS9 is set to start up in full screen mode.Try this: Once up and running, press ALT-Enter and see if it switches from full screen to windowed mode....jim

Even if you run FS9 in full screen mode, you can always ALT+TAB out of it to get to any other apps. Best RegardsMax (Bern, LSZB)http://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004betateam.jpg http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/800driver.jpg