I have with system restore on simon, but I really don't want to take that off yet.
Sandra, yeah I think it might be something to do with a conflict with AOL - I think now it may have started when I upgraded windows media player.
oh see, I was told not to go with AOL ! LOL
I did try restoring but it all went pear shaped and the puter started in safe mode!

So I restored back again. I will try going back a bit further.
Thanks for looking sandra.