Well the subject basically states the problem. I am a mac user and athena and friends work out of the box without problem. Here at SPring-8, I just tried to install horae into both a windows 2000 and and xp machine and am having some trouble with properly displaying graphics. The install goes fine (all default values chosen), however, when athena is asked to do a plot, the graphics window opens, but only (apparently) the background is drawn. As I just tried this on two (Japanese language) machines here, one running 2000 and one running XP, I thought someone must have seen this problem before and found a solution. Any ideas? I am not a windows user, so I have a very limited understanding of why things might not work right (dll conflicts being one such example). Thanks for any help. Paul Fons Dr. Paul Fons Senior Researcher National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science & Technology METI Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research (CANFOR) AIST Central 4, Higashi 1-1-1 Tsukuba, Ibaraki JAPAN 305-8568 tel. +81-298-61-5636 fax. +81-298-61-2939 email: paul-fons@aist.go.jp The lines below are in a Japanese font 〒３０５−８５６８ 茨城県つくば市東１−１−1 つくば中央第４ 近接場光応用工学センター ポール・フォンス主任研究官