Recent content by PCS99

Folks, Thanks for you replies and they have allowed me to progress or at least understand the mechanism of failure! I'll study the white paper and continue. The only problem I had when trying to alter the converted file was a security warning saying I didn't have exclusive access and it...

Hi, I don't want to dumb down the forum but grateful if anyone can point me towards a 'Dummies guide' for converting an existing working Access97 with ODBC Oracle Db to Access2000 or 2002. Used the wizard and it just told me 'compile error' Cannot find project or library. The autoexec.bat...

Hi, Second PC Compaq Deskpro EP PII with 266Mhz. I checked with Compaq site, crucial.com etc and I should have been able to upgrade RAM from 2 x 64 to 2 x 128. I keep getting incompatible RAM type error on boot up even with just the one 128 installed. The RAM is OK and works fine in another...

Linney, What can I say you're a star! The PC Powers down now cleanly like my other machine. Thanks for your help, Pete

I treated my second PC (Compaq Deskpro) to an upgrade from Win 98 to XP Pro and all has gone well with all updates/service packs etc and looking just like my main machine. Problem is that it won't shut down! When I select 'shut down' it goes through the motions and then states 'it's now safe...

Hi, I have just created two new hardware profiles on a second PC to select dial up and Ethernet options. The three profiles are visible in the Systems Properties, Hardware Profiles tab. They are also visible in the registry in the same fashion as my main PC. When I reboot the newly...