Hi all thx for your input.....iam helping a customer over the phone with a problem. Hes has an HP computer with WinME installed on it. He rebooted it and there are quick time icons all over the desktop. I checked quick times support and found that there were issues like this on MACs but i couldnt find anything have to do with this problem on windows machines. He tryed to uninstall it but after the uninstall it say everything was removed and the uninstall worked...when he reboots the machine for like a second when the desktop apears the icons are gone...but then they show up again. He goes back to add/remove programs and quick time is still installed....hmm...dont no if you guys have seen this...but its wacky...any help or a direction to point me in would be a big help.....i hate trying to trouble shoot a PC over the phone....iam not the one to work at the help desk .....thx BoRn