Barbara

3 Start up problem

If you go to Start and Run and type in msconfig it will show you a number of tabbed items. If you go to the tab that shows Start Up items (I'm sorry I'm not at an xp machine at present so this is memory) I would guess that you will find an entry with an 'x' against it which refers to a path of something like c:\windows\system32

If you remove the x and restart the machine it should go away

1 Access and Excel 97 - both DEFINITELY work on XP Home machine. If excel isn't crucial you could try OpenOffice which is compatible (there are other threads on mudcat about this). If you are in the UK then I think you will find it is given away most months in a variety of Computer magazines (I think I got my copy from .net magazine at a cost of £4.99 with magazine thrown in). There is not a database with it - depends how important it is.

4 Cool Edit - I will have a look but I think I may have a copy of this at home running on xp home. I will check and post later

Scuse the weird order!