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Haunted Laptop
Has this happened to anyone else? ??? Last night, I was sending some emails when words started appearing on the screen that I hadn't typed. I took my hands off the keyboard to see whether they would form sentences, but although the words contained no typos, the sentences did not make sense. What do you think? Paranormal…
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stop xp logging me off
Had to re-install xp professional i cant remember how to stop the computer automatically logging me off when i have left the pc for a while. I can leave it for 10 mins come back and its back at the welcome screen saying that i am logged on. I had it set up where when i left it it would just stay on my account. Any help…
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I feel the need for speed!
I've been having a few probs with my NTL broadband and would be grateful for any suggestions!! I've been using the 150k speed for a while but a snail moves faster so the other day I decided to upgrade. I now supposedly have the 750k speed but thats nowhere near what I'm getting. I've been doing a speed check at various…
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EBuyer Questions
hi guys, i want to buy windows xp... please tell me what the difference is between these... Microsoft XP Home With Service Pack 1A OEM [url=http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=1159083437&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=26186 ]Microsoft XP Home Edition [/url] apart from the £60 price…
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Microsoft Word
Feel a bit if a :'( for asking a silly question really. ::) My computer was "flattened" software-wise last week and Windows XP Professional was installed. I expected Microsoft Word / Excel / Powerpoint etc to be on there but they're not!!! How do I get them on now? I know its a silly question but I don't really want to…
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Microsoft Word takes forever to open & close ?
installed microsoft office 2003 onto a laptop with windows 2000 professional. Powerpoint & Excel work fine but Word takes up to 2 minutes for a page to open and 3 or 4 minutes to close . Any ideas as to the problem ? ...and the solution !!! .
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re-formatting query...please help
i recently re-formatted my mum's computer as she was having so many niggly problems with. After i had done this the printer software I tried to re-install wouldn't let me saying' the installation couldn't continue because there needed to be a minimum of 256 colours to continue installing and i had my setting at 16 also the…
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Club Finances Template
Not sure if this is the right board BUT "I Wanna" (Now it is !! template for managing the finances of a small soccer club - does anyone have a good one for tracking club finaces (more than 1 team) or have some good links to free templates out there Many Thanks Mark H
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Real Download keeps popping up ......
Hope someone can help here, this is driving me mad .... Soon after I've connected to the Internet, Real Download appears at the top of my screen and tries to download an MSN.co.uk page (I recently deleted the MSN Messenger program). It's only started doing this recently. Anyone advise as to how I can stop it doing this?…
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Is My Hard Drive Dead and other such questions
Im pretty sure one of my hard drives dead tell tail signs i plug it in and the bios just freezes and when i take it out it carries on as normal... just need to confirm this... im really annoyed about that! and also, how do i run a file say in my system32 folder from msprompt? i am using windows xp! Thanks Monkey
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Can't get on whatlaptop site
Does anyone know if the https://www.whatlaptop.co.uk site is having problems? I've had "cannot find server" for the last 2 days although tonight I thought I'd try pinging the site which worked ok.
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The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt
THE GREAT ‘Cheapest New Laptop’ HUNT: This week’s Hunt taps MoneySavers’ huge collective research power. While PC prices have plummeted, laptops costs have been static for years, with the consistent low price point regardless of power usually around £800. Finally LCD & other display prices dropping means £500 for a new,…
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tft monitor that can connect to a vcr
tft monitor that can connect to a vcr i want a tft monitor that can connect to a video vcr as you can not get a tft tv for under £300 and a tft monitor is a lot cheaper (nearer half the price) a 14" would do with the correct input can anyone help ?? thanks in advance
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Help! Windows not responding ...
I'm having real problems with Windows '98 this am. When I try to go into it, the egg timer is up for about 2 minutes before it eventually appears. It then "freezes" on me and won't let me do anything. I sometimes get a dialogue box with the message "There is a problem sending the command to the program". It's been slow for…
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DSL MODEM PROBLEM
I have an alcatel speedtouch modem with 2 lights on the front, lately I have had problems connecting to the internet due to the fact that the right hand LED keeps flashing. I have filters in every phone socket except one which a sky box is the only thing plugged into. I manage to eventually getthe LEd to stay on by lifting…
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microsoft updates
Everytime i went to the update website, and installed the updates, restarted, my comp would crash. I had to reinstall XP Pro. It happened on my laptop aswell. Can anybody advise me on this? Thanks
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Networking help needed, please?
Guys I need some networking help. I already have a laptop which connects to a Netgear wireless router/modem for internet access, but due to the limited hard drive space I decided to create a wireless home network with an older PC, which I can use as a type of server. So I bought a USB wireless adaptor for the desktop and…
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can't open microsoft Word docs, HELP !!!
running laptop with windows 2000.... and microsoft office Word 2000.... all of a sudden no Word documents will open . Get a blue rectangle warning ..... Program error WINWORD.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. ??????? HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!
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copy songs from a dvd to cd
:) can anyone help. i wanna transfer songs from my bollywood dvd to cd so that i can play it in my car ;D
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Adaware Found Alexa and DOS Exploit - Help Needed
Just got a new PC, downloaded some anti vius, adaware, spybot etc and when I run adaware and spybot they find "Alexa Related" - something to do with "What's this Link?" in microsoft IE. The second thing is "DOS Exploit" which seems to have made 5 registry entries. I'm not very technical on this stuff and just wondered if I…
