thnaks a lot that someone at last responded !! anyways, I guess you misunderstood the situation, or I did not explain my self right. forget about Firefox, because this *.hta file runs with mshta.exe found in windows and I guess it does not require IE ?! am I wrong. I think there is nothing wrong with the WPI itself, cause as I mentioned before, it is running perfectly on a fresh install of XP. what I am asking here, and maybe its a wrong forum (forgive me mods ) how to fix the IE or mshta or whatever is causing the problem here ! waiting for solutions ...