I swiped the script below from a VBScript newsgroup and tried running it as a "Startup" program. Works fine and is simpler and more direct than the HTA script I posted earlier. '================StartSound.vbs============== Set wmp = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX") wmp.settings.autoStart = True 'set volume 0 to 100 wmp.settings.volume = 100 'Enter pathname of desired startup sound. wmp.URL = "cwindows\media\close022.wav" 'wait til it stops while wmp.Playstate <> 1 WSH.Sleep 100 wend '========================================= -- Crash "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." ~ W. Edwards Deming ~