Hi Racspur
First let me thank you taking the time to reply...Now I tried everything you
suggested to no avail but, it did help me eliminate many possibilities as the
source of the problem. After I tried all of your suggestions I decided to try
an repair installation with my XP Home disc to try and re-install a corrupt
file but that didn't work either so my next step was to question my security
software which is Mcafee security suite and through the process of
elimination found the culprit in there !!! The suite has an application
called " Privacy Service " !!! I don't know exactly how it was doing it but
when I disabled this particular app everything worked fine ! Again thank you
so much for the help !!!
You're very welcome! Glad to hear you were able to resolve your problem.
Good job!
Thank you for posting back and letting us know what worked for you, and for
the benefit of other readers who might have a similar problem.
Thank you! And Happy Holidays to you you and your family as well
Jan
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that's why they're so contagious.