DC9, welcome to the strange regressive world of Windows 7. Mine came with a link to Windows Media player IIRC. Once loaded, works perfectly.
Really find it hard to understand why 7's so poor compared to XP, or am I just being old!
Thanks Airborne, that explains things a bit better. Still can't see why Thunderbird can't receive on port 110. Looking at the BTYahoo site email help area, they do not list Thunderbird as a supported email client, so that might be the trouble. Thunderbird was so confident that it could automatically set up POP3 from just an email address too. It can't.
I'm getting more used to Live Mail now, but it is soooo clunky compared to Outlook Express, and I can see why it would be of no use to someone with a high rate of mail useage.
Next big snag is to populate my Contacts with my OE address book which I saved on another networked computer running XP!
Thanks for everyone's help