ok lets see if I can tackle all this LOL yes you can change up the items and names to simply just have the favicon for the site there, just go to that one on the bar and right click on it then choose properties there you can change the name, eliminate the name or just put an initial what ever you want. If you have several that deal with one subject like news for example create a folder on that bar and move all the news related ones into that folder, which will give you more room. Tab mix plus the add on will give you a lot of options too. To change up your "chrome" as it is called like I did on mine so I only have 2 bars and no empty space, go up to the top and click on view> customize> and once that has opened then you can drag stuff around from bar to bar and move things where ever you want to, it is very similar to unlocking the bar so you can move it freely. you can do away with any buttons you do not need by just dragging them off the bars and into that box that opened when you hit customize, I also used from that box the smaller icons so I could fit more. I never liked having my bookmarks in sidebar and have not messed with it. I do think there are some specific add ons for that though. what you can do with your screenshot is upload it to imageshack then from there you can get the forum code for the thumbnail to post here so it will not take up much room, the code you want will have the Clipboard is where your computer saves things when you click on copy then you go some where and hit paste and it posts it from the clipboard. With fireshot once you click on the big red S and capture the pic you have options at the top of what to do with it, one upload that will upload it to a web server and give you the code for that picture to post here in a forum, Save click that to save the picture to your pc this is a good option just put it in your pictures folder and you can always find it. there are many options, but with fireshot I believe you can only capture the open page not the actual browser itself. Even when choosing full page it only captures the open page in the browser. so you will probably want to just use your screen print button that is on your pc. Up on the top row of buttons is the Print Screen button just click on that and it saves it to your clipboard, open your photo editing program and paste the pic in there, then you can save it, Also an easy way to do it is to open an email and click paste in the email and it will add it there, I do that sometimes and just email it to myself especially if I will be needing it on one of my other computers since I can access my email from all of them.

Thanks, that's were I was when the Icon became unresponsive and I decided to "exit" it and post here. I had done a properties and gave it only a quick look, seeing something (poor memory) about desktop... then I click (left) on the icon and a small display/dialog box came up showing some thermometer style meters with a horizontal orientation. I couldn't get the display to disappear so I clicked the "exit" button. I have Firefox and Thunderbird and they try to connect add-ons at every update, it seems. I try to cancel the add-ons, I have enough trouble trying to remember all the features of the core application.

to have the pc boot faster you would need to eliminate items from your start up menu through Run-> msconfig start up tab, and also you can go into services and select either manual or disable rather than auto if it is one that you know can be removed from auto. when you do a change in start up as you boot the next time a pop up comes up warning you that start up has changed simply check the box for do not show this again and continue on. Alter Startup Programs in Windows XP

This page talks about the "links" I'm referring to. It does not say how to automatically re-arrange items. When my computer went into my computer guy they were listed in the order in which I put them on the list, date order. When I got my computer back all of a sudden they are in alpha order. Somehow he clicked something that put them in alpha order. I know I could call and ask him and maybe that's the best idea. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/about/customizelinks.mspx Thanks, Ginny