hi flor and paul t piece of cake, with the amended command i was able to roll back to i e 7 and can now pull up the list of links. many thanks for yizer help. now any ideas on the laptop issue. i lost internet access and e mail about 2 weeks ago. eircom tell me it is due to an update which upsets the ip protocol. they tried to reset it for me but failed. eircom says i must get onto the laptop manufacturers to resolve the problem but they say i need to use the recovery cd , which of course i have mislaid. anyone come across a problem like this before. hope ye can help .......again maybe there is an online fix? regards in anticipation paul h----- Original Message ----- From: Paul J. Traynor (NCBI) To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:06 AM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: rolling back i e to i e 7 Hi Paul, Apologies for this but leave out the SS letters as they don't count and look at the below again as I have revised. %windir%\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************