Thanks to everyone for all of the help. However, after hours of toying with the registry and 'hijack this', I am extremly unsat with WIN ME and the 'blue screen of death' I get every ten minutes. The os won't even accept MS critical updates - everytime I intsall and reboot, I get a black screen on boot that has numerous lines of 'updating system files...1%...2%...could not update files'; from there I have to boot into safe mode then reboot again and it still did not update the files. There seems to be too many problems so I think it's time for a clean wipe and a fresh XP intsall. Thanks again for everyone's help.