When I wrote my post to the group I forgot to say I am blind and a OAP.
anyway I have managed to change to plain text. I hope somebody may be
able to help me now
You have a toolbar installed -something from MSN. It is configured to load
at startup. There is something wrong with the file that stores the
configuration settings. Consequently it fails to start and delivers an
error message. You could try uninstalling the search bar and then
reinstalling it. Those steps usually fix software that has become "broken."
I can't tell from the error message or your post which MSN toolbar you have
installed. Most are some kind of search tool. Perhaps the newsgroup for msn
search could help you with this further.
Here's a link that will add the newsgroup for MSN Search to your Outlook
Express newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.msn.search
Or you can visit the same forum using a web browser (I find these a little
harder to navigate than a newsreader and not as convenient):
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.msn.search&lang=en&cr=US