diff --git a/Common/AdobeIcon.ico b/Common/AdobeIcon.ico
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ceebfa
Binary files /dev/null and b/Common/AdobeIcon.ico differ
diff --git a/PdfScribe/ActivityNotification.xaml b/PdfScribe/ActivityNotification.xaml
index e86a1ea..7ab1fe5 100644
--- a/PdfScribe/ActivityNotification.xaml
+++ b/PdfScribe/ActivityNotification.xaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
         WindowStyle="None"
         Background="Transparent"
         WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
-        Topmost="True" ShowInTaskbar="True">
+        Topmost="True" ShowInTaskbar="False" IsTabStop="False">
     <Grid>
         <Image Name="QuillPenBackground" Source="Adobe_CreatePDF_icon.PNG" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="200" Width="200"  ></Image>
         <Label Height="29" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,203,0,0" Name="labelProgress" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="254" Foreground="Red" FontFamily="Arial Rounded MT" FontSize="16" HorizontalContentAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" VerticalContentAlignment="Top" Content="CAPTURING" />
diff --git a/PdfScribe/PdfScribe.csproj b/PdfScribe/PdfScribe.csproj
index c618e54..dc0a285 100644
--- a/PdfScribe/PdfScribe.csproj
+++ b/PdfScribe/PdfScribe.csproj
@@ -74,12 +74,14 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <ApplicationManifest>app.manifest</ApplicationManifest>
   </PropertyGroup>
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <ApplicationIcon>Resources\AdobeIcon.ico</ApplicationIcon>
+  </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
-    <Reference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack">
-      <HintPath>..\Lib\Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll</HintPath>
-    </Reference>
     <Reference Include="System" />
     <Reference Include="System.Data" />
+    <Reference Include="System.Drawing" />
+    <Reference Include="System.Windows.Forms" />
     <Reference Include="System.Xml" />
     <Reference Include="Microsoft.CSharp" />
     <Reference Include="System.Core" />
@@ -88,18 +90,11 @@
     <Reference Include="System.Xaml">
       <RequiredTargetFramework>4.0</RequiredTargetFramework>
     </Reference>
-    <Reference Include="WindowsBase" />
-    <Reference Include="PresentationCore" />
-    <Reference Include="PresentationFramework" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Compile Include="..\Common\PdfScribeSharedAssemblyInfo.cs">
       <Link>PdfScribeSharedAssemblyInfo.cs</Link>
     </Compile>
-    <Compile Include="ActivityNotification.xaml.cs">
-      <DependentUpon>ActivityNotification.xaml</DependentUpon>
-    </Compile>
-    <Compile Include="ActivityNotificationPresenter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="GhostScript64.cs" />
     <Compile Include="NativeMethods.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Program.cs" />
@@ -129,26 +124,12 @@
     <AppDesigner Include="Properties\" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
-    <Resource Include="..\Common\Adobe_CreatePDF_icon.png">
-      <Link>Adobe_CreatePDF_icon.png</Link>
-    </Resource>
+    <None Include="Resources\AdobeIcon.ico" />
     <Content Include="..\Lib\gsdll64.dll">
       <Link>gsdll64.dll</Link>
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
     </Content>
   </ItemGroup>
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <Page Include="ActivityNotification.xaml">
-      <SubType>Designer</SubType>
-      <Generator>MSBuild:Compile</Generator>
-    </Page>
-  </ItemGroup>
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <ProjectReference Include="..\PdfScribeCore\PdfScribeCore.csproj">
-      <Project>{1EAD8E9A-A123-4C37-B31E-AEE1354DF003}</Project>
-      <Name>PdfScribeCore</Name>
-    </ProjectReference>
-  </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   <PropertyGroup>
     <PostBuildEvent>copy "$(TargetPath)"  "$(SolutionDir)PdfScribeInstall\PrimaryOutputHarvest\$(TargetFileName)"
diff --git a/PdfScribe/Program.cs b/PdfScribe/Program.cs
index d96eced..68ce8e5 100644
--- a/PdfScribe/Program.cs
+++ b/PdfScribe/Program.cs
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Drawing;
 using System.IO;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Reflection;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Text;
-using System.Threading;
-using System.Windows;
-using System.Windows.Threading;
-using PdfScribeCore;
+using System.Windows.Forms;
+
 
 namespace PdfScribe
 {
@@ -23,7 +20,7 @@ namespace PdfScribe
         
         const string errorDialogInstructionPDFGeneration = "There was a PDF generation error.";
         const string errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite = "Could not create the output file.";
-        const string errorDialogInstructionUnexpectedError = "There was an unhandled error in PDF Scribe. Enable tracing for details.";
+        const string errorDialogInstructionUnexpectedError = "There was an internal error. Enable tracing for details.";
 
         const string errorDialogTextFileInUse = "{0} is being used by another process.";
         const string errorDialogTextGhostScriptConversion = "Ghostscript error code {0}.";
@@ -39,22 +36,15 @@ namespace PdfScribe
 
         #endregion
 
-        static Application guiApplication = null;
-        static Dispatcher guiDispatcher = null;
-        static ActivityNotificationPresenter activityNotification = null;
         static TraceSource logEventSource = new TraceSource(traceSourceName);
 
         [STAThread]
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
+
             // Install the global exception handler
             AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(Application_UnhandledException);
 
-            //Dispatcher.Run();
-            LaunchApplication();
-            //LaunchActivityNotification();
-
-            //Thread.Sleep(10000);
 
             String standardInputFilename = Path.GetTempFileName();
             String outputFilename = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), defaultOutputFilename);
@@ -87,18 +77,9 @@ namespace PdfScribe
                                           errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite +
                                           Environment.NewLine +
                                           "Exception message: " + ioEx.Message);
-                /*ErrorDialogPresenter errorDialog = new ErrorDialogPresenter(errorDialogCaption,
-                                                                            errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite,
-                                                                            String.Format("{0} is in use.", outputFilename));*/
-
-                DispatchToGUIApp(
-                    (Action)delegate()
-                        {
-                            ErrorDialogPresenter errorDialog = new ErrorDialogPresenter(errorDialogCaption,
-                                                                                        errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite,
-                                                                                        String.Format("{0} is in use.", outputFilename));
-                        }
-                    );
+                DisplayErrorMessage(errorDialogCaption,
+                                    errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite + Environment.NewLine +
+                                    String.Format("{0} is in use.", outputFilename));
             }
             catch (UnauthorizedAccessException unauthorizedEx)
             {
@@ -111,9 +92,11 @@ namespace PdfScribe
                                           errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite +
                                           Environment.NewLine +
                                           "Exception message: " + unauthorizedEx.Message);
-                ErrorDialogPresenter errorDialog = new ErrorDialogPresenter(errorDialogCaption,
-                                                                            errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite,
-                                                                            String.Format("Insufficient privileges to either create or delete {0}", outputFilename));
+                DisplayErrorMessage(errorDialogCaption,
+                                    errorDialogInstructionCouldNotWrite + Environment.NewLine +
+                                    String.Format("Insufficient privileges to either create or delete {0}", outputFilename));
+
+
             }
             catch (ExternalException ghostscriptEx)
             {
@@ -123,9 +106,9 @@ namespace PdfScribe
                                           String.Format(errorDialogTextGhostScriptConversion, ghostscriptEx.ErrorCode.ToString()) +
                                           Environment.NewLine +
                                           "Exception message: " + ghostscriptEx.Message);
-                ErrorDialogPresenter errorDialog = new ErrorDialogPresenter(errorDialogCaption,
-                                                                            errorDialogInstructionPDFGeneration,
-                                                                            String.Format(errorDialogTextGhostScriptConversion, ghostscriptEx.ErrorCode.ToString()));
+                DisplayErrorMessage(errorDialogCaption,
+                                    errorDialogInstructionPDFGeneration + Environment.NewLine +
+                                    String.Format(errorDialogTextGhostScriptConversion, ghostscriptEx.ErrorCode.ToString()));
 
             }
             finally
@@ -140,13 +123,10 @@ namespace PdfScribe
                                               (int)TraceEventType.Warning,
                                               String.Format(warnFileNotDeleted, standardInputFilename));
                 }
-                //ShutdownApplication();
             }
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8047610/re-open-wpf-window-from-a-console-application
-        /// 
         /// All unhandled exceptions will bubble their way up here -
         /// a final error dialog will be displayed before the crash and burn
         /// </summary>
@@ -158,93 +138,26 @@ namespace PdfScribe
                                       (int)TraceEventType.Critical,
                                       ((Exception)e.ExceptionObject).Message + Environment.NewLine +
                                                                         ((Exception)e.ExceptionObject).StackTrace);
-            ErrorDialogPresenter errorDialog = new ErrorDialogPresenter(errorDialogCaption,
-                                                                        errorDialogInstructionUnexpectedError,
-                                                                        String.Empty);
+            DisplayErrorMessage(errorDialogCaption,
+                                errorDialogInstructionUnexpectedError);
         }
 
-        static void LaunchActivityNotification()
-        {
-            if (guiApplication != null)
-            {
-                DispatchToGUIApp((Action)delegate()
-                    {
-                        ActivityNotificationPresenter notificationPresenter = new ActivityNotificationPresenter();
-                        notificationPresenter.ShowActivityNotificationWindow();
-                        System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.Run();
-                    }
-                );
-            }
-        }
-
-        static void LaunchApplication()
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Pops up a topmost, OK-only message box for the error message
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="boxCaption">The message box's caption</param>
+        /// <param name="boxMessage"></param>
+        static void DisplayErrorMessage(String boxCaption,
+                                        String boxMessage)
         {
 
-            if (guiApplication == null)
-            {
-                var guiApplicationThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(() =>
-                                {
-                                    guiApplication = new Application();
-                                    guiApplication.ShutdownMode = ShutdownMode.OnExplicitShutdown;
-                                    activityNotification = new ActivityNotificationPresenter();
-                                    activityNotification.ShowActivityNotificationWindow();
-                                    guiApplication.Run();
-                                }
-                            ));
-                guiApplicationThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
-                guiApplicationThread.IsBackground = true;
-                guiApplicationThread.Start();
-            }
-        }
-
-        static void DispatchToGUIApp(Action guiAction)
-        {
-            if (guiApplication != null)
-            {
-                if (guiApplication.Dispatcher.Thread != System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.Thread)
-                {
-                    guiApplication.Dispatcher.Invoke(guiAction);
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    guiAction.Invoke();
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        static void ShutdownApplication()
-        {
-            if (guiApplication != null)
-            {
-                if (guiApplication.Windows != null && guiApplication.Windows.Count > 0)
-                {
-                    foreach (Window appWindow in guiApplication.Windows)
-                    {
-                        appWindow.Close();
-                    }
-                }
-                guiApplication.Shutdown();
-                guiApplication = null;
-                /*
-                guiApplication.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)delegate()
-                    {
-                        if (guiApplication.Windows != null && guiApplication.Windows.Count > 0)
-                        {
-                            foreach (Window appWindow in guiApplication.Windows)
-                            {
-                                appWindow.Close();
-                            }
-                        }
-                        guiApplication.Shutdown();
-                        //guiApplication.Dispatcher.InvokeShutdown();
-
-                    }
-                );
-                */
-                //guiApplication.Dispatcher.BeginInvokeShutdown(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Send);
-                //guiApplication.Shutdown();
-                //guiApplication = null;
-            }
+            MessageBox.Show(boxMessage,
+                            boxCaption,
+                            MessageBoxButtons.OK,
+                            MessageBoxIcon.Error,
+                            MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1,
+                            MessageBoxOptions.DefaultDesktopOnly);
+            
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/PdfScribe/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs b/PdfScribe/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
index 0c66335..7abae32 100644
--- a/PdfScribe/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
+++ b/PdfScribe/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs
@@ -25,14 +25,6 @@ using System.Windows;
 //[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage("en-US", UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.Satellite)]
 
 
-[assembly: ThemeInfo(
-    ResourceDictionaryLocation.None, //where theme specific resource dictionaries are located
-    //(used if a resource is not found in the page, 
-    // or application resource dictionaries)
-    ResourceDictionaryLocation.SourceAssembly //where the generic resource dictionary is located
-    //(used if a resource is not found in the page, 
-    // app, or any theme specific resource dictionaries)
-)]
 
 
 // Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
diff --git a/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs b/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
index ddeac24..5b985b3 100644
--- a/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
+++ b/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
@@ -59,5 +59,12 @@ namespace PdfScribe.Properties {
                 resourceCulture = value;
             }
         }
+        
+        internal static System.Drawing.Icon AdobeIcon {
+            get {
+                object obj = ResourceManager.GetObject("AdobeIcon", resourceCulture);
+                return ((System.Drawing.Icon)(obj));
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.resx b/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.resx
index af7dbeb..fdaaac8 100644
--- a/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.resx
+++ b/PdfScribe/Properties/Resources.resx
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     
     mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64
     value   : The object must be serialized with 
-            : System.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
             : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
     
     mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.soap.base64
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
             : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
     -->
   <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
+    <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" />
     <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
       <xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
@@ -68,9 +69,10 @@
               <xsd:sequence>
                 <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
               </xsd:sequence>
-              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" use="required" type="xsd:string" />
               <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
               <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
             </xsd:complexType>
           </xsd:element>
           <xsd:element name="assembly">
@@ -85,9 +87,10 @@
                 <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
                 <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
               </xsd:sequence>
-              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
               <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
               <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
             </xsd:complexType>
           </xsd:element>
           <xsd:element name="resheader">
@@ -109,9 +112,13 @@
     <value>2.0</value>
   </resheader>
   <resheader name="reader">
-    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
   </resheader>
   <resheader name="writer">
-    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
   </resheader>
+  <assembly alias="System.Windows.Forms" name="System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
+  <data name="AdobeIcon" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
+    <value>..\Resources\AdobeIcon.ico;System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
+  </data>
 </root>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/PdfScribe/Resources/AdobeIcon.ico b/PdfScribe/Resources/AdobeIcon.ico
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ceebfa
Binary files /dev/null and b/PdfScribe/Resources/AdobeIcon.ico differ
diff --git a/PdfScribeCore/TaskDialogPresenter.cs b/PdfScribeCore/TaskDialogPresenter.cs
index a71aa44..0866d0e 100644
--- a/PdfScribeCore/TaskDialogPresenter.cs
+++ b/PdfScribeCore/TaskDialogPresenter.cs
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ namespace PdfScribeCore
                 simpleTaskDialog.Opened += new EventHandler(simpleTaskDialog_Opened);
                 simpleTaskDialog.StartupLocation = APICodePack.TaskDialogStartupLocation.CenterScreen;
                 simpleTaskDialog.Show();
-                //System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.Run();
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/PdfScribeInstall/Product.wxs b/PdfScribeInstall/Product.wxs
index 81e66d9..1a73698 100644
--- a/PdfScribeInstall/Product.wxs
+++ b/PdfScribeInstall/Product.wxs
@@ -64,12 +64,13 @@
         <File Id="PdfScribeExe" Source="PrimaryOutputHarvest\PdfScribe.exe" KeyPath="yes" >
           <netfx:NativeImage Id="PdfScribe.exe" Platform="64bit" Priority="1"   />
         </File>
-        <File Source="PrimaryOutputHarvest\PdfScribeCore.pdb" />
+        <File Source="PrimaryOutputHarvest\PdfScribe.pdb" />
         <File Source="PrimaryOutputHarvest\PdfScribe.exe.config" />
 
         <File Id="PdfScribeCoreDll" Source="PrimaryOutputHarvest\PdfScribeCore.dll"  >
           <netfx:NativeImage Id="PdfScribeCore.dll" Platform="64bit" Priority="1"   />
         </File>
+        <File Source="PrimaryOutputHarvest\PdfScribeCore.pdb" />
 
         <!-- Third party components -->
         <File Source="..\Lib\gsdll64.dll" />