no problem, glad I could help! have a good one! I... . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at: http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at: http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:43 AM Subject: Re: I Broke VB 2005 Express Hi Inthane, Got the file this time. Thanks. Jim __________ Take back your shopping life at http://tinyurl.com/32rsxz ----- Original Message ----- From: inthaneelf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:32 PM Subject: Re: I Broke VB 2005 Express yes the tilde belongs in it, hmmm I've never had anyone not be able to log on before, odd, well try this link then: ftp://trades:monIcle~73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/ that's a direct copy of the IE shortcut I use to log on to the site, in fact the one I used to upload the file HTH, inthane ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:49 AM Subject: Re: I Broke VB 2005 Express Hi Inthane, Thanks for the information. I got there and when I logged on using the credentials, it sis that I could not log on using that user id password combination. Does the ~ character belong in the password? Thanks. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: inthaneelf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: I Broke VB 2005 Express yes and it bounced the attachment, tell you what, I'll just put it up on my trades ftp site and you can go get it, smile, here's the info again in case you don't have it handy: In Internet explorer; ftp://trades@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ in a third party FTP client its; ftp:trades.alacorncomputer.com user name is: trades the password is: monIcle~73 and the file you want is the only one there now, its called: msicuu2(MicrosoftWindowsCleanupInstaller).exe take care, inthane ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:56 PM Subject: Re: I Broke VB 2005 Express Hi Inthane, Thanks. I am using my home address. ----- Original Message ----- From: inthaneelf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:44 PM Subject: Re: I Broke VB 2005 Express let me check what I have of my fix it files, I may still have the copy of the advanced uninstaller that Microsoft gave me to remove a similarly messed up copy of the .net framework 2.0, if I have it I'll ship it to you. inthane . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at: http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at: http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:38 AM Subject: I Broke VB 2005 Express Hi, Some how, my computer got hung up when I was trying to uninstall VB 2005 Express. Now the program tells me it can't open the msi installer file. Does anyone know how to fix the problem and uninstall the program? Thanks. Jim __________ Take your shopping life back at http://tinyurl.com/32rsxz