Just some information....I just tested with kix 4.62 and it did indeed run the kixtart.kix file that was in the same directory, by simply running c:\windows\wkix32.exe. Must be some other kind of directory problem occurring. I'm not sure if it's relevant to this situation in particular but maybe consider upgrading to the newest version (4.62). Also I believe the .dll and .kx files are not needed unless you are supporting win9x clients.