technical - I appreciate your help very much but I would ask you to be careful about this advice in future …

I carried out those instructions and when I rebooted… I had lost my Admin profile in Win2k… luckily though I am not a guru I am competent… and was able to create a new profile… also as an administrator.

However I have lost all of my prefernces for more than a dozen programs … including all my Gravity usenet history and settings and stuff ???. Luckily I was able to copy over some stuff such as desktop and things…
It’s going to take me a while to catch up… :frowning: