Thanks Venkat.  The computer came with XP SP2 and I get the automatic 
upgrades.  But none to date have been of any use against whatever 'bug' is 
in there.  When I ask for IE I'm told no updates are available.

So I will try Firefox.

Joyce


none. for that matter you should not have any problems with IE also becau
se lots of people use it satisfactorily though there are security problem
s galore withh all browsers.

have you installed xp1, xp2 on you win xp home? which version is IE ? <snip> 

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