Recent content by rojradford

After applying security patch kb823980 to a windows xp pro machine I find that some programs (particulaly Excel) start to load then hang, is this a problem with the security patch? Roj.

Hi All, Fixed it! I managed to get access sooner than I thought. Stripped everything out except floppy, cd rom and hard drive. Loaded win2000 no problem! Then put all the bits that I took out back in and it works fine so I don't know what was stopping win2000 loading! I shall not investigate any...

Hi Woody2002 and Wolluf, Thanks for your info. The bios virus checker is disabled, so I will try the elimination approach, unfortunatly my friend works shifts so it may be a week or so untill his shift patterns allow me to get access to his machine. but if this method doesn't work I shall get...

Hi, A friend of mine asked me to upgrade his pc from win 98 to win2000, a job I have done many times before (successfuly!) but on this occaision I failed! The pc is a Evesham 1GHz with 512Mb RAM about 2 years old, I can format the drive and load up win98 but when I try to upgrade to win2000, it...

I am running Systematics (Maars Software) Accord on a Novell network. It runs fine on the older machines (upto 450MHz) but on anything faster I get the following message: RUNTIME ERROR 200 at 0005:130A Is there any way round this? Roj.