Thanks a million....I'd never thought of that! And that could be the problem...I've done it just lately.... Pat On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 07:53 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote: > You can... And you should. > > Chances are your computer is at a higher OS version than your original > install disk. And privileges are likely to have changed in newer > versions. > So repairing privileges from your install disk may actually set them > to the > wrong values.