Thanks blackwingcat. Another program this fixes is Office 2007 compatibility pack for Office 2003. The latest Service Pack 3 when installed on Win 2000 hoses it and there’s no way to make it work again. Microsoft could care less, they probably did it on purpose. I checked everything, went into the registry and tried every key I could find and the only way to get it working right was to uninstall the whole Office 2003 program then reinstall it, including all the patches, a real pain. But with kernelex SP3 is no problem now. I even went to Microsoft Update and got the latest patches for it. So if this did nothing else but keep Office going it would give my W2k box a few more years of life since I use Office almost everyday.