hehe i sorted it out, I just used the 2nd version of hotmail and now it runs fine. Hotmail allows you to use 3 versions if im not mistaken. 1st one looks all sleak and shiny with the message box under the inbox, so you click on a mail and you can read the message without having to open a new page 2nd one is the same stuff but without the message box underneath, so now you have to open the mail in a new page and I think you can still go back to the old hotmail format that we have used for a good few years, but that just looks old..lol