Thanks for the reply. On the XP desktop ran the free Microsoft on line safety scanner which incorporates a registry optimizer and this seems to have sorted that one. Unfortunately the scanner is not compatible with 64 bit OS systems so no good for the laptop. Other registry scanners have improved things to the point that I can not save in version sets but the rest seems OK. Obviously a registry thing but that seems about as far as I can get. As you say strange that it should happen to both machines at the same time so something obviously triggered it but I have no idea what. Ho hum, love computers!
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