Hi Reverend..I am back after the holiday. Anyway, I can not open Notepad. When I try, I get this message "Adobe can not open notepad.exe because it is either not a support filetype, or the file has been changed (for example it was sent as an email, and not correctly decoded). I am going to install a NEWER version of Microsoft Word, because the current installed version also has that Adobe icon overlaid on it. Maybe if that install correctly, I will try a copy and paste of the above instructions you gave. Not sure if Word would work, but I guess it is worth a try. if not, I guess I just need to format and reinstall everything. This is scarry though...what if it happens again ?? She is pretty sure the problem started when she downloaded Adobe.Mike