In a message dated 24/03/2008 14:06:24 GMT Standard Time, PaulGask@aol.com writes: Bear in mind too that there's a Generations list on Rootsweb - if you look in the list archives, there should be some posts about running the program under Vista. Thanks Paul, I do belong to the Generations List. My problem is rather different. Last December my old (3 years) computer started playing up. It went away for repair and came back working okay. We dragged and dropped the Generations files across and (we thought) everything had moved over okay. The file which I always used came across as a 'shortcut'. The shortcut was on the desktop and this worked perfectly. In February the computer played up again and my husband bought me a new one. Everything had been backed up to the second hard drive. This time the 'shortcut' file had nothing in it. I have reverted to a Gedcom which I had sent to somebody else last year. I have renamed this file and it seems to be working fine. Possibly the 'shortcut' file connected to the actual file on XP but doesn't seem to on Vista. Thanks for your input. Cheers, Helen. LUCKING one name study.