thanks...I got to the bottom of this
It wasn't unknown or asterisk but allsystemobjects though
It works a bit different for WinME.
Now i'm a happy chappy
It's interesting how "stable" windows are. Things disappear and change without notice. Now the text labels of IE have turned from square to rectangle just like this Something seems to have disappeared from there.
Well, what can you do? It's M$
