Right, so that's the new in house comments working, sorry about the palava, I think you have to log in to post comments, if you want to post anonymously, just add your name in the comment itself. My stats counter seems to have vanished, odd, it was there yesterday. I've got a new whizz bang PC, AMD Athion 64 3200+ 2ghz 1gb DDR DVD writer nvidia geforce fx 5500, I don't understand one letter of all that bullshit, but it has got a whopping 240 GB memory, I'll never delete anything again. What really annoys me about this whole PC thingy is, why don't they ever work properly first time ? The computer and IT industry must surely be the slackest industry on earth. In any other field you simply would not put up with the rubbish that they produce. If I bought a car, filled it with petrol and it stopped working, then the mechanic said it would only accept Pure Highland Petrol which is only available at three filling stations in the Orkneys, I would assume he was having a laugh. If, upon inserting my new copy of Donnie Darko into the DVD machine, it flashed up a message along the lines of "Exp.dll has conflicted with win.ap203, system will now commit ritual suicide" I would have every right to be a little miffed, I might return the machine to the shop where I bought it and demand my hard earned money back. But, let me say again.....but, this is the way the home computer market operates, has anyone ever purchased a machine on which everything runs correctly the first time ? Are they so badly designed on purpose ? Is it too much of a conspiracy theory to think that these machines are made very poorly on purpose so they an milk us for heaps more money on their premium rate 'help lines.' I say help lines, but what I understand these to be is the chance to be belittled by some spotty degree student. If you rang the TV company to complain about your picture quality, they wouldn't' advise you take the back off and set to work with a pair of pliers, NO, they'd come out and do it themselves, under guarantee. Why should I have to understand the inner workings of this machine ? If you come and dine in my restaurant I don't expect you to have to pop into the kitchen and rustle up dinner for 30 (though any help would be appreciated.) We paid a fee for a man to come out and install the new machine, I'd bought McAfee, the idiot who sold me the machine didn't say that it had Norton pre-installed (even though I had already informed him about McAfee), thus an extra hour of buggering around as the two systems caused the system to crash or seize. After he had set up the system and gone, I couldn't get any sound from it, this turns out to be because he hasn't fitted a power source to the speakers, well done that man. Finally, when I press the e-mail button, the internet options dialog box opens, I'm not horrified or even vastly surprised, I don't suppose it will be the last cock-up I discover on my new purchase.