I actually use Seamonkey which is another Mozilla spinoff - it's like FireFox and Thunderbird (the Mozilla email program) combined, or the old Netscape Navigator. Has a few neat features that neither IE or FF have, like being able to set a bookmark to actually open a site for you if it's changed.

Dr K and Jon, many thanks. I'm getting really fed up with IE having grumpy fits, so will start using Firefox, as I have it on the machine already, but will have a look at Chrome, too.

Firefox is much better than IE, but its constant nags to update in the middle of doing something - and to do the update now and refuse to let me do anything else - drove me to try Google Chrome, which I have to say I love now. I no longer have Firefox on my machines.

As far as I'm concerned FireFox does more than IE8, because it works consistently, which is a claim that IE hasn't been able to make since Version 5, IMO.

Is this still good advice? I have constant problems with IE8 despite updates and fixes and virus checking etc. It decides it must 'reload the window' at least once a day, and frequently freezes completely, requiring a reboot of the whole PC.

When it works, I like it. Does Firefox (which I'm using at the moment!) do everything IE does?

I have had no problems working on XP until now, 123 loads perfectly and functions fine.

I cannot load the full suite (although I have done in the past on XP) so cannot select colours, useful but not essential.

I have tried converting to excel but have found a number of operations do not work. eg Record a in a macro "end up" but when used the macro takes you to the cell it found when recording it does NOT"end up".

Thanks for the replies

thank you, Monsieur, that worked. Bizarre to be from
Imac back to PC land, hopefully only temporarily.
Good night!
C.

Could be the add-ons in IE8, this link explains how to disable them in IE8. Personally I use Google Chrome all the time now on my Mac, with Safari as backup. So no problems for me, he he he.

I think it means you need to drag yourself kicking and screaming into the 21st century and give up trying to use 14-year-old (98 in Internet years) software, I'm afraid. This link to Lotus's own help forums seems to say that your software was designed for the DOS-based world of Windows 95 - ME, and not the NT-based world of XP and that you won't get it to work on XP.

Lotus Smartsuite96.  Later versions have clumsier macros for 123 and will not work with many of my older macros.

Excel macros are also much more tedious.

I have assumed that the message was from Windows XP, is this possible?

Roger Mortimer