Glad that I finally found something close to the problem that I am having. When I try to open my Add/Remove Programs app I get an error msg that says Parse error " at line 1. Will the above solution work for this error msg? I went to the Windows/Resorces/Themes folder and found several folders but none with the theme that I appear to be using. Like zipp51 I to have visions of having to reformat. Can anbody help?