Hurrahhh, Hurrahh, Hurrahh!!!!

At last, with the help of DKG and PG I am somewhere close to solving the 'disappearing trash icon' mystery!!

By a process of elimination and much head scratching it transpires that 'Nortons 2004' is to blame. The reasoning behind this is beyond me but having attempted to resurrect said icon many times while having turned off Nortons I had abandoned that line of enquiry.

As a last resort and after some information and help from DKG we last night completely uninstalled Nortons and hey presto....magically I had icons! It is of course not quite that simple because I need, like everyone else, to have a firewall.

To cut a long and boring story short we discovered that whilst the 2004 version still won't show the icons even when disabled the 2002 version will.

2002 was duly installed and now at least, albeit with the aggravation of disabling it and taking the risk that something will infiltrate my system in the mean time, I can delete comments!

The mere fact that we have discovered what was causing it in the first place is cause for celebration in my little world and there is an unexpected bonus......the pc appears to be running significantly faster with 2002 installed than it ever did with 2004!!

I have yet to isolate exactly what in Nortons is causing the problem so that I can rectify it properly but hell....after weeks and weeks of investigations, fiddling and frustration it is a breakthrough!

Oh how I wish I truly understood the peculiarities of things virtual :o)

So it's off to work for me now..... the Bank holiday hordes await, home mid evening and then four days off!