thank you! i was looking in the options menu not the view menu!
yes that option was checked although i didn't check it originally, so it must be a default feature? i unchecked it, but i'm a little uneasy....
what is it for anyway??
LW hasn't been loading on its own since yesterday, when i was prompted to start over and choose a folder to share (this was after i had deleted my short cut and another link to run on start up elsewhere in my program files) It then asked if i wanted to run on startup and i clicked NO
in any case it seems to be right now, and thank you all so much for the help!