For months I have been getting two spurious W drives appearing when working in WE. I found the fault could be produced by opening an Office 95 formatted document in Word 2000 on first boot only. By devious means I have discovered that the problem can be eliminated by putting a shortcut to spool32.exe in the StartUp menu. My questions are as follows: 1. What is the purpose of spool32.exe ? 2. Should it start on boot up and if so is there a more elegant solution ? In the Properties for this file it is described as "Spooler Sub System Process" (which I thought was tied up with Printing). The files it links to when activated are: shell32.dll comctl32.dll shlwapi.dll spoolss.dll mpr.dll user32.dll gdi32.dll advapi32.dll kernel32.dll In case it matters I am using W98SE, IE501 & OE Any thoughts at all on this would be appreciated.