I think/hope I am back now! Had the most appalling computer problems for about a week and have now solved the problem....we hope - a corrupt memory card which has been removed and now, although running on half-memory, the computer does at least work again! I am just so relieved that Steve always backs up the files every week otherwise I would have lost 13 years worth of family history research - about 600 A4 pages because I write things up in a narrative form, complete with 100s of scanned images rather than use commercial fam hist software. It would have taken me years to rewrite it and the whole lot was corrupted and irretrievable ....and that was just the start of it. We now need to buy a new memory card and also have also bought Windows NT as we originally blamed all our problems on Windows ME! An expensive week but not as expensive as buying a new computer. Steve is still working on the computer so I won't have much time to spend on it over the weekend so bear with me if you have emailed me. Having bored you with my computer problems I will leave you in peace to get back to Family History! Have a good weekend Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list