Many thanks for your help Yther Ore. A friend, computer literate, managed to delete all the EQ2 files and reload them, not sure what route he went. When he deleted them he lost the internet and for some reason it went to a proxy server which he coiud not connect to. After some time he managed to change back to the old server. EQ2 is not up snd running. Thanks again.....Chumagoo