Firon, it's back. That dreaded "Access denied" bubble. What have i done to deserve this I did a fresh install of XP Pro today, she's all patched up. Running Zone Alarm, and NOD32 and now I am going to cry werrrrrrrrrr! I need helpski's :(:(:(:(:( I'll give you some infooo!!! PC: AMD 2600+ 768MB DDR GeForceFX 5900XT - Latest drivers 81.98 ABIT NF7-S 2.0 - Latest NForce2's 5.10 80GB Seagate SATA 30GB Maxtor ATA133 SBLive 5.1 Don't know if that help's but you could pass that onto Lude. -------------- Boo hoo