What is it? Its called Toshiba Flash Cards...as I'm sure you probably know... Whats it do? It gives shortcuts to things like power management and the such, basically an on-screen version of the function+f 1-12 combination Whats it for? its really more aimed @ people with tablet pc's, in order to improve functionality while the screen is rotated around and is covering the keyboard How to stop it? Vista: 1st End the process as stated above 2nd Remove from the "Startup" folder in the "Start->All Programs" menu 3rd Uncheck it from the startup programs in control panel, and MSConfig 4th Restar