Starwaster & Nathan - thank you so much for your responses, I am happy to here there is a potential solution for me. I do not know how to do what you are suggesting off the top of my head, and I'm not sure how I would go about doing it, but I have used Hex type editors before to change things in my registry by searching for a term then replacing it. I would just need to know how to open the file and search and replace the offending items. (In the past I have followed a walkthrough with screengrabs and that was fairly straightforward without the potential for any mistakes. Please let me know what your advice is - It means a lot to me!