hi, this is a prob with a friends pc, he has 2 probs 1- he has a home page which no matter what i do i cannot get rid of there was a fresh bar which i managed to get rid of... sumho not sure how, can neone tell me how to get rid of the fresh search bar? and the home page is a search page which comes up with weird searches when he starts IE like asian porn etc... not matter wat i do i cannot seem to get this to go i change the homepage rexstart and everything and it is still there when i start IE... 2- this has only jus started he can connect to the internet using his adsl modem sez connected 512mb but then when i start IE and try to go to a web parge it trys to load but stays on what its on which is currently what the home page is i mentioned... ne ideas? ive looked at the connections seem ok why isnt IE working then? - also i have a problem at the mogives me a message like this when my comp crashes only crashes when i run ad-aware or mcafee virus scan, and a stinger, this is the message: C:\DOCUME~1\Ford\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER92c8.dir00\Mini012505-03.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\Ford\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER92c8.dir00\sysdata.xml error signature BCCode : 9c BCP1 : 00000001 BCP2 : 8054DA70 BCP3 : B2000000 BCP4 : 00000115 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1 Ford Cass =0