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I have a system recovery problem with my Acer Aspire laptop. I lent it to a friend, who tried to use a memory stick in the USB ports,normally used by a bluetooth device (used for dial-up modem) and an optical mouse. When he returned it, the laptop would hang when connected to the internet...

I have been donated a Compaq laptop that was the property of a neighbour's husband. He died 8 months ago. There are two password protection, one during boot-up (Bios P/w) which is known. The password to access Windows 2000 pro, however is unknown. I want to remove all data and install XP. Can...

I am reprogramming (Win98SE) a second-hand tecra 8000 laptop, without the advantage of configuration build CD. I did succeed (by trial and error) in getting the DVD-rom drive to play DVDs by downloading and installing a number of 'shareware' players. I then found several references on the...

I bought a Tecra 8000 laptop. It had no software installed. I installed XP Prof, but altough 'Fn F4' will produce ascending beeps, no other sound emanates from the speakers or headphone sockets. All the troubleshooter options check OK, the BIOS has the sound enabled and the Windows media player...

I keep waking the family when using my PC in the early morning, because the boot-up beep is too loud - can I disable it?

I'm trying to install IE5.x on an old laptop running early version of win95. I have the dial-up network connected OK, the modem works and signs-on to my ISP, but when I run ie501steup.exe or ie5setup.exe, the message I get after the first initialisation dialog is "setup was unable to...

I have made a pig's ear of trying to uninstall win2000 and revert to Win95 on a DELL laptop. Following advice from a link from TEK-TIPs, I booted the laptop from my win95 boot disk and copied the system to the laptop with the command - SYS C: I then tried to find and delete the BOOT.INI and...

I have an excel workbook with links to other files and short 'labour saving' macros and VB code. This workbook is used as a template for many jobs, populated and then saved. The frustrating thing is that sometimes, when a saved file is recalled, the macros/code have 'disappeared'. I operate on...

I have a sound card installed on my system, which widows '95 detects and installs fine,as far as audio-out goes (works fine with media players and RealPlayer). However, I wanted to use the Microphone, but no luck. When I went to control panel>system>soundcard, the sound card was identified as a...

I have a sound card installed on my system, which windows '95 detects and installs fine,as far as audio-out goes (works fine with media players and RealPlayer). However, I wanted to use the Microphone, but no luck. When I went to control panel>system>soundcard, the sound card was identified as a...

I'm developing a VB form with a data control, DBGrids, frame and tabstrip. I load data into an MSAcces DB and use the data control to 'populate' the DBgrids for display purposes. All goes well until the final stages when I make the 'dbgrids.visible = true' and show the form. I get the...

I am using VB5 to open an excel s/sheet and read data into a recordset (myset = db.openrecordset etc....). The data in the s/sheet is in a prescribed format, using first few columns as text, the remainder as numbers. The first 'record' can be at any row, and there is no header row. the problem I...

I am using VB to open an excel s/sheet and read data into a recordset (myset = db.openrecordset etc....). The data in the s/sheet is in a prescribed format, using first few columns as text, the remainder as numbers. The first 'record' can be at any row, and there is no header row. the problem I...

I was compacting my folders in Outlook exppress when the system locked - I now have a folder 'personal.dbx' which has 14MB plus when viwed with explorer, but which outlook won't open or recognise; any help pls - the drive it is held on had also been previously compressed

I was compacting my folders in Outlook exppress when the system locked - I now have a folder 'personal.dbx' which has 14MB plus when viwed with explorer, but which outlook won't open or recognise; any help pls - the drive it is held on had also been previously compressed

I’m working on two PC’s, both with EXCeL97. One PC will open all XL files from Explorer by ‘double-clicking’, even those with long filenames; the other tries to read long filenames as separate files (ie. It tries to open “bid cost.xls” as “bid.xls” and “cost.xls”). Can U tell me where to find an...

I have a variable holding a date, in the format "dd/mm/yy" The functions day() and Year() work fine when applied to this variable, but month() doesn't example code:- Dim MyDate as Date Dim MyMonth as Integer MyDate = 02/03/01 MyMonth = Month(MyDate) ' MyMonth should return 3 but a...

I have the following code in an application <<Set dbs = OpenDatabase(strsel, False, True, &quot;Excel 5.0;HDR=NO;&quot;)>> The code has worked previously, but the IT dept have upgraded and re-installed MSOffice, and now the application reports the error &quot;..Can't find installable...

how do i change 'text prompt'in a drop down list box ( I am trying to update an EXcel worksheet - the author no longer works here.) when you activate the cell with the listbox attached, text prompt comes up alongside, like a 'comment' - I wish to edit this comment. Right clicking doesn't reveal...

When I receive a word document which includes images, I only see a blank page where the ojects have been placed by the author. If I 'edit' the picture, I can see it, when I then 'save and return to doct' I can goto 'edit>pictureobject>convert and by ticking the 'float over text' box I can then...