In windows 98 there are two patches that work for this same problem......now the only problem is i can't remember which one does the job! Both will do no harm and can be found at the windows update site. The first one is called something along the lines of "Mapped Drives Shut Down Patch" and the second one is something like "HDD Cache Patch". I will check tommorow on a WIn95 box and get the exact Names.