Thanks Raze. Unfortunately that tip did not work for me because 1) I lowered the desktop resolution in steps all the way down to 800x600 and it didn't help. 2) I could never even get to the game options screen to check a box. I actually did not realize that the checkbox is now available through the desktop icon preferences. Windows7 has added 3 more tabs and several new checkboxes to Icon preferences, very handy in this case.