> Why don't you open them with a text editor and tell us what they > are?You should also be able to tell when the file was created and/or > last modified. yup... very long and involved text strings in all four. At or near the bottom, in each, two words: >Internet and >Explorer I remember now (a week or two ago) having to use IE to access a Dutch site for a sound file (stream) and the dates match up close enough I think. Curiously perhaps, no other browser (I have 'em all) would do the trick and the link would not work directly in Windows Media Player either. Haven't used it since, don't know if I will again any time soon, but I don't see the need to trash the prefs. All seems well - just curious. Thanks for the nudge Ralph, appreciate it. db Herzogenburg, Austria QS733, etc.