I will appreciate that very much b'cos when i tried using the kixtart last yr i had no succss in the normal inplementation so then i have to create a kix file like financ.kix and place this cmd kix32.exe finance.kix in each of the finance users profile under the user properties. That is really a tidious job to do so if i can get the normal way for kixtart to work, i will be very very grateful please.