I've been using LS for 9 days (and counting) and there is a lot of documentation out there, but I can never find what I'm looking for (maybe I'm special). LSNoShellWarning is in the step.rc because I don't want any users to see the shell warning. I left the HideApplication line there, because I had no idea what it did but it sounded important. I'm at work at the mo, but when I get home I'll try running that shell command from cmd. I'm sure I've tried that and got same results. My thought is that something in the mzscript.dll wants to be loaded after something on my PC has loaded - not sure what tho.