Vista would not let me put xp over it.....I ended up taking the puter back....it was also freezing up....went to Frys and bought one with XP on it....and bought an extra gig of memory :-)
Took the old one to a friend and they are going to fix it.....I don't want to mess with VISTA..till it has been around a loooooooooooooong time....thank you everyone...huggers, Carol