John I hope that someone has a suggestion to fix it for you. Sometimes I think windows just breaks for good and its time to reinstall or use a backup.

Last year I spent £20 to buy acronis home 2010 from amazon, it was money well spent.

Saying that I have an irritating problem with windows 7 in that a link clicked in ie8 wont open as maxamised, have just to live with it, as I don't have a backup of windows where it does work and its too much hassle to reinstall everything including applications.

Try the tech forums on moneysavingexpert some good posters on there. No doubt you have tried system restore.

Last edited by joemardo1; 02/11/11 07:12 AM.

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