Thanks Woolwell, I am busy downloading this windows live essentials now (i clicked on all of the features which the downloader recommends) when this is dowloaded does it mean that when I open a photo (from SD card or photos) that I will get that window showing the photo with the "fix" option at the top of the preview page? Oh it will be such a relief if I can get it like it was in my Vista laptop!! for Tarbyme: I did manage to get the cropped part of a photo (only) showing after clicking on "crop" for a 2nd time after setting the cursor around the part I wanted to crop, and I did manage to save it to the same folder - it does leave the original photo intact and show a 2nd cropped photo, but I would still rather have this windoes live essentials programme like Woolwell said I had, hope it all downloads well and I am back to the system I had with the Vista laptop, thanks LAPTOPDUNCE by the way this is a bit different, I was trying to make the recover disks befoe and the Vaio care programme advises using DVD- disks but I only have 3 and need 4, I am in Holland and I can only find DVD+ here, I was told that they dont stock DVD- anymore, but I think its utter tosh as I can buy them dirt cheap in England (holland is a terrible rip off, €25 for 20 DVD+ disks!!!! - cheapest!! - does it matter if I did use DVD+ or should I wait to get the DVD- ones in England??