I ran Windows Update today, its been recommending 'Live essentials' for ages now, but today it worked!! What can i say! It asked me if i wanted everything or just to update what i've already got. I chose 'update what i've got' and it did it!!thanks for that info, reddevilggg. I've avoided it for ages, too, and was wondering about whether installing it would give me any options. You've answered that. Great news reddevilggg, At the 1st opportunity i too shall try again on my wife's computer and hope to have an outcome like yours. Will report when tried. truenorth
P.S. I am a bit pessimistic though as your O/S is win 7 and ours is XP and the emphasis on the site is for Win 7.Well hoping that reddevilggg's experience would change our outcome i reattempted the update for XP. Same result as before. So it LOOKS like a change to Yahoo or something else will be the solution. I did try to verify the system requirements for the update as per Microsoft's criteria. We seem to meet most of them. I say most because there are a couple i don't recognize. As I'm sure most users of Microsoft products can attest to when you start to follow the messages of Microsoft to resolve a software issue it is akin to FALLING down a RABBIT hole. They appear to be never ending. Maybe they all terminate in Kansas but i just don't have enough time remaining in the hourglass to try and get to a "solution" as Microsoft defines it. truenorth
Too bad they couldn't have just left well enough alone. It worked and now it's broke.