I searched my system for the real Notepad and found it in C:\I386 so I made a new shortcut for my taskbar from that one and deleted the problem one. Whatever actmovie.exe is, it is still on my system - don't know if I should delete it or not but at least I got Notepad back. Coleen To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk