I am not a genius, but, I think you made a boo-boo. I had Office, which is more 'serious' than Works, but I installed it and uninstal- led it. It turns out it is a bad thing to do: try not to uninstall large programs that reach down into the innards of the computer. Every programs leaves tentacles in the Registry and all the down deep parts. When you uninstall, those tentacles remain. You said you reinstalled Works, I hope you put it back in the same drive. Next, always check Microsoft's Knowledge Base, it may be a bug they know about. If you or none of your computer tech friends can fix it, I would recommend to post on PC Magazine's forum, where the readers are some pretty heavy dudes. Again, I am not an expert. But, if worse comes to worse, you might have to save all your info to disk, wipe everything out, and reload. That should solve the problem, but it is a major job.