Hi there Lord.... thanks for your speedy reply and no, I havent thried the codecs that you have recommended but will be looking at that shortly. I did upgrade my windows media player from version 9 to version 11 (only since then the problems started really) now have rolled it back to version 9 again, but makes no difference to the avi downloads (even affected downloads that were not affected before too).

Im using Windows XP, so would you know where I would find the graphics card settings page, would it be in the control panel do you think? Sorry for being a nuisance over this issue!

Thanks again
Terry