If anyone using 98lite with the Sleek or Micro shell can help me with this, it's drivin me nuts.

The problem is that certain apps are "stealing" file menu functions from certain other apps. As an example, I run Photoshop 5. The file menu works fine; clicking File > Open produces the file open dialog box.

But, if I then run another app, say Photofiltre or Cacheman, suddenly the file open/save commands in Photoshop cease to function. I can click the menu items but no dialog box appears.

This happens in reverse also. If Photofiltre is opened first, and then Photoshop, Photoshop will steal the file menu functions from Photofiltre. This only happens with certain apps. Photoshop gets along just fine with, for example, Paint Shop Pro or Metapad. But if all 3 of these are open, and I run Cacheman, presto -- none of them have access to file commands anymore, except Cacheman.

Well hopefully this description makes sense. My workaround so far has been to put the Win98 comdlg32.dll and shell32.dll in Photofiltre's folder, but I don't want to do that for every app that causes the problem, if I can avoid it.

Any help much appreciated
Thanks
Leo

this is why I HATE using 98lite with either Sleek or Micro config shells.
remove 98lite and put back the normal 98 shell
using the 95-like shell in win98 can break some programs

Actually all of my programs run just fine under the Micro shell.

The menu problem turned out to be a minor inconvenience,
and easily avoided, compared to the slower performance
of the normal 98 shell on my P4 machine. I've tried all the
shell variations, and there's no doubt, the win95 shells are
simply faster.