Hi again All, I thought I had finished this thread with the likelihood that IE security was the cause of my problem. This has now been complicated by the fact that I have obtained another set of web files on CD that contain pdf files and these work as expected!

My reason for reposting here is that I would like to be absolutely certain that my Xara (Magix) web software is not contributing to the problem. I would be very grateful if someone out there has the time to copy one of their website creations (or a subset) that contains links to a local pdf file(s) onto a CD and let me know if it runs normally from the disk using Internet Explorer as the browser? If it does I can fully concentrate on the IE component of the problem.

Many thanks,
Trev