Have you got MS's antispyware program installed? If so, I think its that. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Collins Sent: 08 July 2005 18:29 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Ask and Allow Hi all - When my PC freezes, I often find if I use the JFW cursor, that amongst my desk-top items is something called ask, and something else called allow; allow is usually checked, and if I do a left click on it, my machine unfreezes and all is ok. This is nothing to do with my firewall [Sygate] and isn't the usual Sygate screen that says so and so is being contacted by...do you want to allow access...So, does anybody know what allow and ask are all about, and why they appear for no apparent reason? Andy