Bobbi, go to the top of the page, to the right of Garden Web, and click on Your Profile. Jim

You probably set IE as your default browser and need to set opera as default. In opera Tools > preferences > advanced > programs and put a check for opera to check on startup to see if it is set as default. Restart opera and make it your default browser

Since its usually a long time between whenever you look a those configuration settings it helps to take and save screen shots of em. You can save em all to one wordpad window.

"LOL" Cboy yep I am quick for sure. Ha! I followed your instructions and then I rebooted to make sure those icons would stay in place. Before I posted here I wanted to make sure that everything was working normal, after I rebooted walla those icons came back. "Smiles" Thank you so much for your help. This was a simple fix but I didn't know it at the time. I right clicked on the desktop to find that the backround had been changed, so I changed that but I had forgotten how to get the icons back. I still don't know how the backround got changed and my right clicking on the desktop was a stab in the dark, but when I did that I remembered to check the backround and that is when I discovered that what I was thinking was a white screen turned out to be an internet wallpaper backround. Myself I don't like that even being there, it gives you a false impression of something being wrong because it shows a white screen with gray lines. Thanks cboy for all of your help and I will post on the other thread a thank you to those who stepped in to help me. I have always trusted this forum for the wonderful help that you all provide. thirdfrt!!!