I am trying to explain I do have windows 7 a desktop 64 bit and amusing Msoutlook on that. learning slowly. I have kept my old laptop xp 2002 as I like it,it has been cleaned off and shouldbe "as new I had hoped,but the machine although running latest Jaws 11 with all patches,is having problems with drivers and will not run the spell check in any sensible manner, did itwork before? Yes it did,why doesit not now? He cannot fathom, make of laptop is a Toshiba,a study model and I am rather fondof it,my fondness of it was why I wanted it cleaned off and reformatted, I am using Outlook express on it but had to put Office 7 on it as the cd's for Office 2002 were seemingly scratched. I tried to explain this in my reply to Laura but decided on trying to make a better job if possible! dorothy