hi Jan. I meant I'm using Chrome - at the moment. I started using windows 7 in Dec. with IE, but it wouldn't let me post pics and had problems with typing, so changed to Google. A few weeks later got some virus so my 'clever' daughter sorted that out with anti-malware etc, and we did look into that which you mention. Last week all these highlighted words and fly-outs came into play, and I noticed each one hovered over said 'pursue point'. I googled that, and one guy says it's a program installed, probably by Google, (must admit it's only when using Google this happens) and to uninstall it. When I looked into it, there was a program called 'pursue point', so I got rid of it, restarted the computer, and all is fine now. But thanks, I will look into settings again.
I did not have these sort of problems with xp, and am disliking progress of computers.
nativetexan - yes, Microsoft are not supporting xp after April I think. Haven't heard about win8, but am not surprised. I have heard good things about firefox.