TigerCat: try a system restore to an earlier date/time when all was well, and Ctrl/Alt/Delete is a soft reboot anyway, but you could try it.

Bernice: I tried that but it only went to the same day that I tried it..not even an earlier date. Even tried doing the ctrl-alt & delete buttons but received a message that the task manager has been disabled by the admin.

TigerCat:  What OS do you run? And I assume you are running a PC? Or is it a Mac?

You could uninstall OE7 and then reinstall it..

ScarletRose: Windows XP Home Edition. I have downloaded IE7 & I would still have to re-install it. I can't even get into Control Panel let alone see it LOL

TigerCat: Two thoughts here Tiger..

1. Did you recently put a firewall or a virus program on your puter that you might need to tune the program to accept your IE?

2. Is it possible you deleted certain files on your puter that actually were needed to run IE? Or, could you have picked up a virus?

ScarletRose: Nope....never changed either my firewall or virus programs & it shows that both are on. Never ran updates for IE. When I do a temp file delete at least 1 time each week, there wouldn't be anything in the MSN part, just in the temp files mostly. I could have picked up a virus of some sort because I can't turn on my Automatic Updates in my security. It will always be on but this week, it was turned off ( not by me) & when I click on the turn on part, nothing happens. Would get a thing that the security center can't turn it on. Then I'll go to automatic updates & click on when I would like the updates to be done. Today in fact, I set when it should be done. Stayed on-line during that time & didn't get anything for it showing either in my icons or when I went to log off.