Hi,

I am new to this board so I hope I don't make too many mistakes.

Here is my problem:

I have XP (home ed.) on my new Dell (about 3 months old now) and the Spell Checker stopped working after I did a the Windows Critical Updates for my computer two days ago. The spell check was working fine before and now it is kaputz.  I know that if I had Word, Excel or Powerpoint installed that it would function again but I can't figure out why it did work before doing the updates?  I was told that if I install Front Page or Publisher and then uninstall that the spell checker might be left behind. Has anyone done this?? Any clues??

Thanks...