ah, thank you Nisgeis - glad that is sorted.
I suppose I would have realised in time as the X-series space sim games from Egosoft have a similar information bar. I just would not expect to see them in a peaceful environment and on friendly ships that were moored - but that's fine, I shall not worry about them any more. Um, shame about the German voices requiring a re-install. I shall bear it in mind if I ever do need to do that, but I am not going to do it just for that reason.
Well, I can go to kip happy now - been a good day.Night-night all
oh forgot about the mod, thanks for that too, I will certainly go for that one next time I come on here.