Hi Clare - Wondered if you've managed to recover your settings yet. Don't lose heart as they may still be safe in a directory called 'Favorites' (American spelling). Open Explorer, Documents & Settings, User Name, Favorites and hopefully that's where you'll find all your missing links. My setup is a little different as I use a program called Mozilla Firefox which stores all my links in a different directory called 'Bookmarkbackups' which is why I was asking you about Firefox. Sorry if this confused you. I am now guessing you are using Internet Explorer under Windows XP. Anyway, see if you can find 'Favorites' which is usually marked with a large yellow star. If your links are hiding there then it's dead easy to recover them. Let me know how you get on. Regards, ja