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thanks for this. however it looks like SP2 has gone from the system and it isn't in the add/remove programs list which it initially was when it was briefly installed. What I want is to basically take my laptop to the time I purchased it and start all over. Any hints?

Hello, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop which has been playing up for some time since I tried to install SP2. I have decided that the best option will be to start again but I don't know how to. I have tried the recovery CD which says I shouldnt put another opertaing system on the...

Hello, I have a spreadsheet which contains dates. What I would like is to have an IF function which when the date has passed has a text colour of say 'red' and if the date is still to come has a text colour of say 'blue' but I am unsure how to do this - I am presuming an IF function is the way...

Thanks for the code, all working great. Just one more thing, is it possible to add something to the code so that when the menu is selected (I am going without go button) that it opens the selected url on a new window?

thanks for the advice, when using the url as the value do I then need a 'go' button to activate the link to work as as the moment all I can is just select the option from the box and it does not go to any of the links.

Hi, I am trying to create a drop down box for my web page which links to various other pages which contain menus. I have created the box with the options but am unsure of where and how to write the href which, for example, links value "1" to c://menu1. <p class=MsoNormal><SELECT MENU=MENUS>...

Hello, I am designing a small website for someone and I am fairly new to this. They have asked that a small counter be placed on the site to record the number of sites. Can someone help me out in how to do this please!!!!

my pc came with everything pre-installed so i don't have a cd for my sound card - would the drivers be hidden away in some folder somewhere??

hi, i am having problems with the sounds on my computer. i am running XP through a HP pavillion and just little sounds little open and close tunes have stopped working. I have tried system restore but it doesn't work. If i go to sound and audio devises and try to change the sound scheme i...

in computer management i can see both the recovery partition and the normal hard drive and so i am clicking on the normal hard drive as the help guide says that i should get an option which says create partition but it does not which is why i am using dispart which i am also not having much luck...

it is something i found in teh help menu which uses command prompt. do i not need to use this at all then?

Hi, I have a HP Pavilion pc and windows XP and am trying to create some disk partitions from my hard drive but don't seem to be able to do it. I have over 17GB of free space on the drive but when i try and use diskpart to create a partition it says i have no free space - am i missing something...

yeah they all play fine so I have no idea what has happened - guess i'll get onto HP. Cheers for advice

all sounds are there and when i try to run the system file checker as suggested it asks for my XP cd which i don't have as my HP Pavillion came pre-installed with everything.

I have a similar problem - just some of my sounds suddenly stopped playing such as when i open and close windows put others like when i open a program play sounds and mp3s all play fine though the speakers so all connections are fine. Have used system restore to take it to when everything was...