Try the following location: <cd drive>\i386. There might be a file called sapi.in_, which needs to be decompressed using the system configuration utility. Hope that helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Beasley To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:33 PM Subject: [access-uk] Locating file I have been told that I need to re-install the sapi5 file from my windows xp cd but I can't find it. Where should I be looking?