Hi All, I am a broken person at this point! I am running XP Home Edition on an HP laptop. Regardless of the program I am running I get the help menu doalog box appearing constantly. I have thus far reformatted the hard drive and re-installed xp and the problem is still the same. I have also installed Office 2000. Other than that I have installed no other software on the machine. I apologize if this description is vague but the problem is a bit vague itself. Thanks.