Hi Reverend,

Many thanks to you two for replying to this post so quickly.

I couldn't agree more, I should be able to do that, but, the taskmgr.exe file ain't there!! Perhaps if I expand it may be clearer to all.

In sys32 (regarding task manager only, there's a lot of other shit in here besides) there is:-
taskkill.exe
tasklist.exe
taskman.exe and that's it !!! ???
recently copied over from original WinXP CD is also:-
TASKBARW.CH_
TASKMGR.EX_
TASKMGR.HL_
TASKMGRW.CH_ Now these files need to be expanded/unziped/uncompressed in some way and converted to .exe .hlp (help file) & .chm (compiled HTML help file) before they will run, and quite probably the .hlp & .chm files belong in the Windows/Help folder anyway.

The question now is:- how does one copy and uncomprees the .XX_ files and with what application does one do it with?

I would be very grateful for any suggestions as this is driving me mad!

Greg.

PS Blackwar, I'll take a look at that site with the guide for re-installing, but I'm quite reluctant at this stage to go down that avenue if at all possible, had bad results in the past from trying to do re-installs - it seems MS software gets its knickers in an awful twist when its been over written. But I will take a look nonetheless. Greg.