I guess I should have told you what my problem was, I had a virus and on my compaq it had a recovery. So when I startedmy computer at the DOS window I seleted the F10 button and that started a system recovery, I thought it was like a windows fix and when I restarted everything would be still in place. But I lost all my execute files and images, including address book and mesages. I see all my list of programs in the file but I cant excute them.