ja Les good point, Was thinking about SetConsole but thought that if you launched kix32 directly out of usermgr, that the console would "flash" for a micro-second ... and that wkix32 would be the pure console-less login. I think DOC does his stuff this way (Doc?) ...

But if getting wkix32.exe into a existing environment is not possible, setconsole would be a good option ja.