Many programs rely on being run from their current directory, Delphi was well known for that. If your window manager supports it, you can tell it to run from that directory, then use the full path. Should work then. -- -Austin -----------Answer--------------------------------- The window launcher does not give me that option and most importantly I am trying to build this to work for novice users...they need the link on the Desktop to click or they will be lost. Thanks for your suggestions.