Hi All, Having spent the last couple of months computer - less due to security faults and a phone line error; I'm far from a font of knowledge! :-) But I was at Caswilco's house last night and it seems the prob was due to opening the zip files. Cas has xp but 'winzip' appeared at some point of the blind leading the blind (although no winzip now) and also the usual xp zip / extract all files icon never appeared. Any advice on how we can figure how to open these files correctly, such as where to look for xp compression to check if its not been over-rided somehow? Many thanks in advance.....der