Sorry to inundate you with responses - but Rwilliams is correct. Check for errors but don't do the repairs. Usually these repairs from scandisk/chkdsk give you just give you hunks of useless file fragments. If a check does reveal an error, a proper utility like Norton will actually recover the files intact. I believe that Norton will allow you to run its repair functions from its CD. It is important not to install a bunch of stuff on the affected drive -- as I said before it might over right the missing file if there has been a disc error. Also, is it possible that you accidentally dragged your runtime folder to a new location? This is a long shot but might have occured. Just try to search for a file that you know the name of and see if comes up. Another thing to check - you might have some weird type of virus. I'd run a virus scan too. If you come up clean, that is just one more possible problem you have eliminated. Finally, the different versions of windows do things in slightly different ways so that is important to know your Operating system. Do you have Win 95/98/Me or do you have Windows 2000 or Windows XP?

Allan Thornton