Thanx JP Seen 'pinging' done by the bods who setup my PC in the last job but have no idea how to do it. Can you advise in layman's terms please. As an aside have done all of the below. Seems to work when I first open the main window and then click on a hyperlink, second window opens and searches/connects to the URL. If I then close the 2nd window and select another HL from the 1st window, a new window opens but remains blank. Run the following commands from start/run. Run each line individually. After each run, you should see a short message stating the command was successful. The first command is the one most likely to work. regsvr32 Urlmon.dll regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll regsvr32 Shell32.dll (only applicable to Windows ME, Windows 2000 and XP - if using an earlier operating system, run regsvr32 shdoc401.dll) regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll regsvr32 Mshtml.dll Cheers. Guy |