Thanks, that was the problem. I forgot that about a week ago I had edited my Group Policies and disabled Windows Messenger. I change it from disabled to "not load on startup" and it works fine now.
Older xp pro box died a couple of weeks back.<BR>Shut it down then when I came back to use it<BR>bsod with ntfs file system error <BR>on c drive.<BR>Haven't had time ...