Hi All, Happy to say that re-freshing installation of Windows Live Mail corrected the problem, and the digests now open correctly. Thanks to all that wrote to me with ideas. I have just had a posting to PPP Guestbook asking for assistance tracing the Crupper / Cropper family in Warwickshire - if anyone has any links or can offer assistance please get back to me or post to the list, and I will forward it to Kriss Happy Hunting Pickard Back in a sunny Nagykanizsa for a couple of days only Off to Oman on Saturday