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Thanks for your advice Chris, the problem was sorted when I signed back in again this morning. And I've righted the taskbar it's now Ok too.
Methyl thanks for your response, I have IE7 at the moment very slow, I did upgrade to IE9 but it seemed to send my HP Vista laptop into a buzzing frenzy. So I cancelled it and IE automatically reverted to IE7. Will try IE8 if there is no possibility of me making a cock-up of it.
Sorry to be such an idiot. I'm having all sorts of probs trying to get BT email and spent all evening wasting my time on it, no further forward. They are the pits.
Thanks again I'll be checking into AB tonight sometime.