Bob wrote:
>Can anyone tell me why my back button (on my MS optical mouse) has =
>stopped taking me back to the last page I browsed, or why I no longer =
>see a "Back" button on IE6? >>


Right click an empty space on the top line in IE which starts File Edit 
etc. Click "customize" and then you can see what buttons are available in 
one pane and which are in use in the other. Just drag the buttons between 
the 2 panes. It seems that something, somehow, has moved your Back button 
out of the "in use" pane. Possibly this has been caused by some unrelated 
hiccup in the OS, perhaps a forced shutdown. In such a case, if the 
registry becomes corrupted, XP will invisibly revert to an earlier copy of 
the registry, and you start wondering why things ain't quite as they ought 
to be.

One of the strong points of XP is its excellent recuperative powers---all 
behind the scenes and without any user intervention. On the other hand, it 
also can be one of its annoyances.  Give it time---eventually you'll come 
to know and love it.

You should then find your mouse function will work again---it's probably 
now pointing to a non-existent place on the menu bar.

Don Penlington

 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
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