I am using WINXP and IE 6.0 on a Dell Dimension 8200. When your browser is open, you click on the Search button in the toolbar and a search window opens on the left side of your monitor. You should be able to change the default search engine to something else as stated in the following : "When you're in Internet Explorer, click the Search button up on the toolbar. Then click Change Preferences | Change Internet Search Behavior. Pick Google (or Excite or AltaVista, or whatever), click OK". This quote is from a newsletter I get and it did work for me a couple weeks ago. Now, however, that search function has been captured by Ask Jeeves and I cannot change it no matter what I try. All I get is an Ask Jeeves logo, a customize button, an input dialog box and a list of canned search items. I have looked in help files and it tells you how to customize internet searches, but my customize button is "dead", does nothing. Anyone have a solution, please? This is really bugging me, I don't like being captive. Thanks for your help. Mike Williams Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml