freda...do you MEAN "Windows Explorer"? Or do you mean the **BROWSER** (Internet Explorer)?

I see no need to even try to 'get rid of' the service pack 2. It has some useful security stuff..etc...

Now, the easiest way to browse and access Mudcat and such is to get Opera for your **browser**....Firefox is excellent, but you have to make more decisions with it. Opera is harder to tinker with.

" I've just been deleting every windows thing that has appeared since 20 January" What sort of things have appeared? and what do you mean 'deleting'? Just saying "no"?, or actually going in and deleting something? It is important to know some of the terminology in order to ask questions.