Thanks caperjack,

I did as you suggested.The sound recorder was simple windows recorder.Both calc.exe and sndrec.exe were not there and when i tried installing them through Control panel-add/remove program/windows accessories it asked me to insert the XP accessories cd.I dont have that CD with me.

My laptop is IBM THINKPAD T41 which i got from my employer and the OS was factory installed and so i dont have any CD with me.Since i am in foreign country i cant go to the System Admin of my company.

Is there somewhere else where i can get those .exe files ??

Thanks once again.