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Hello: A while back I asked you folks here how to get the Virtual Screen function working under Win95, or, if anyone out there actually had Virtual Screens working on their TP760 under Win95. No one seemed to know the answer, and no one came forth to say "Yeah, mine works," so I bugged IBM some more about it. (To date, I've called their support 4 times, each time getting a different response. The last response, and the one I liked least, was that Win95 didn't "allow" virtual screens to work). Since I wasn't getting far using their phone support, I decided to try their support forum on Compuserve, and I posted a question to them there. They responded within a day. They told me that, indeed, the Virtual Screen function does NOT work under Win95. They're supported for OS/2 and Win 3.1, but (and this is my interpretation), IBM hasn't updated their screen drivers to include this functionality under Win95. Shame. So, for those out there who've been doing what I've been doing -- trying, configuring, reconfiguring, tweaking, sweating, and downloading any and all new drivers they can find in an effort to get Virtual Screens working under Win95. . . don't bother. "It don't work." IBM didn't say whether this was, indeed, "impossible" under Win95 (I don't believe it is), and they didn't say whether they were planning to make this work in future releases, so there's some hope that Virtual Screens will be functional in the future. At least, I hope so! And, as an aside, I also asked why some features of the ThinkPad Features program, such as enabling/disabling the modem, or enabling/ disabling the MIDI port no longer work in the latest release of the ThinkPad utilities. These functions are greyed out now. I was told that these features have been "migrated" to the device manager in Win95, and to enable/disable them you need to use devmgr now to do so (Check or un-Check the box for these devices under "Device Usage"). I haven't verified this works, however, but it explains why ThinkPad Features no longer lets you configure them. And, and editorial comment: I must say, I wish IBM would provide a little better documentation -- internal and external -- regarding issues such as these. I've spent countless hours trying to figure these things out, and my first three calls to IBM's tech support kept me me believing that they should work. (And, frankly, I still think they "should" work). IBM's margin on the TP760CD was fat enough, IMHO, for them to provide more cohesive support. Regards, Dean Cashen cashen@primenet.com