Alpha Tester, Thanks so much for your response. I've tried everything so far, including this. But to answer your specific recommendation, I checked again to confirm my earlier efforts. Following the old adage, "it's not what you don't know that gets you, it's what you know that isn't true!" When I right click the BitSync tray icon only two options appear: - BitTorrent icon followed by the words 'BitTorrent Sync' - pin icon followed by the words.'unpin this program from the task bar" Checking the Task Manager confirms that BtSync.exe is running What do you recommend next. Does BitTorrent itself