Thanks for the info I used your shortcut to create a link in my menu. The first couple of times it crashed - white background black palm screen - I think windows mangled the text when I copied it. Then I got it working by editing the file with vi. Now it works but when launched from the shortcut the device id is different from the launcher and some programs want a different registration code entered. Would the hotsync id switch fix this ? I've also used the info to create a backup so hopefully I can just restore the next time I wipe all the data. Thanks again.