hi cheyennedonna, i'm in the manage applications, i see what you mean with the uninstall, also i see this for example in "google search" under permissions it has orange writing with exclamation point icons that say network communication, your location, phone calls & system tools. do you click on those & if you do what happens. i'm so afraid to click on things fearing i'll mess things up. also to your ? yes my apps are present in my app folder when i click the X at the bottom & no i didn't make any shortcuts on my desktop. everything is the way it came. so any app that i install goes to my music folder??, thats what i don't understand because when i installed the solitare app it was in the music folder. sorry for being so thick headed. borisb, thank you for that link. i'll get to it as soon as i try to figure this other stuff out. tia once again.