Installing and uninstalling hardware makes changes to the windows registry. I've never had much luck "hacking the registry", but reinstalling Windows should solve the problem. Sounds drastic, but at work, I often find it less time consuming to reformat the hard-drive and reinstall the software than troubleshoot. Probably not the answer you were looking for. . . -- Art Simon simart@null.net http://art.simon.tripod.com http://www.myspace.com/artsimon