Thanks for the replies. just checking my theme this morning and apparently messing around with some stuff and made my text in the folder windows disapear untill i select it now. dang might have to start all over again and really dont' want to. also the start menu is black background now and can't get rid of the glow. but when i press my up and down arrow keys they make all the text disapear aswell. someplace i changed the text to be transparent and now sure where. thanks again for all the help btw.