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I am experiencing a range of problems that may or may not be connected except they all started at the same time. I find that pages in IE7 are slow to load or wont load and refresh has to be used (clicking on a link here at Tek Tips takes about 30 seconds to load) Interactive sites do not always...

I am experiencing unusual activity on my hard drive. This happens when the pc has been inactive for a while and often late at night. The drive "chatters" for about 30-40 mins but stops as soon as I move the mouse. I have run AV and Spyware including Norton, AVG, Kaspersy, Spy Doctor, Ad Aware...

I am running XP Pro SP2 and am now finding something strange. Ever since I first used XP Pro (when it first came out) on start up it has always logged on to my account. Now it has started logging on to another account and offers a Tour of Windows. It does not show any icons from progeams I have...

Hi! I have a problem where outgoing e-mails are spell checked in US English. I have set UK globally, in Word and Excel and in the spelling options within Outlook. I am using XP Pro and Office 2003. Any ideas? Thanks, Ray

I have encountered a strange problem (or set of problems) that may or may not be related. When I start my pc, the indicator bar on the Windows screen halts for up to 2 minutes but mostly for around 45 secs before continuing. The following black screen holds for about 30-45 seconds then the next...

I am investigating a possible back up solution for a small office. The network pcs will keep all files but OS's and programs on a dedicated pc running XP Pro. This pc will have (min) 250gb HDD in mirrored RAID. One HDD will be a standard internal. (D1)The second identical HDD will be fitted via...

I have a rule in Outlook where mail addressed to my wife goes to her folder. However, mail addressed to both my wife and i go to her box. ie she gets 2 emails and I get none. Is there a solution to this? Thanks

I know this probably has a simple answer but I would be grateful for the help. I need a cell to show a value of 1 or 0 depending on whether there is data in another cell in the same row or not. Thank you

Does anyone have any idea whta this file is? It shows as SHELLPAR nad has no extention. It keeps turning up in various locations on my pc. They open with note pad and contain a file location but a different one in each occaision. I have checked MS KB but it does not show on search nor in...

Can anyone tell me why I get emails downloaded when Outlook 2000 is not even running? I was a bit concerned that someone had been accessing my pc after work as when I opened Outlook there were already un-read mails waiting. Then I noticed that Norton Antivirus was scanning emails when I first...

Hi! I am trying to find out how I can move just the e-mails from a pc onto another. We run a small network using Windows XP Pro and Office 2000. When a member of staff leaves we need to transfer their e-mails to another computer. We dont need to move anything else from outlook. Is there a way...

I am running XP Pro. on a 3200 Athlon machine. The power lead was knocked out of my pc and when I restarted i got the error that config sys was corrupted. Run setup and press R at the first screen. Unfortunately as soon as I press R and get the choice of drive it freezes. If I try to...

One of our staff has left and has a large number of e-mails that we need to look at and/or keep for reference. How do you move/copy all the e-mails to another pc running Outlook 2000 without having another pst file and without moving all the other info (contacts diary etc) Thanks Ray

Hi! What I hope is a simple question. Can you swap formatting in Word 2000. I have a whole raft of documents where I want to swap Bold. so all the bold is unbold and all the plain text becomes bold. Is there a short cut for this? Thanks Ray

Hi, Really strange one this. I was forwarded an email for which I then had to forward further (it was about bogus callers and an important message) using the message in the recieved e mail. I replied. No problem. I tried to forward to a list of about 20 people I use quite regularly. But it...

I am using Outlook XP. I have set up some message rules. Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not. It is not the address on the incoming mail as mail from the same people sometimes is moved according to the rule and sometimes its not. If I go to message rules and tick run now, then the unmoved...

I am running Qx 5.1 on a PC running XP.I have a 22in monitor just so I can see a full 2 page A4 spread. However when I go to Actual Size the page shown is actually mearly 2in wider than a real page of A4. When I go Fit In Window I cannot get both pages on the screen. I lose about an inch of the...

I was surprised to learn that Excel cannot add up beyond a certain number. I ran a little table where A1 =1, B1=A1*2, A2 = B1, B2=A2*2 and ran this down to A65 This is, simply put 1x2x2x2 and so on. For the literary amongst you this is based on the old fable of putting a grain of rice on the...

I have a small network of 4 peer-to-peer pcs running XP and Office 2000. Is there an easy way of sharing the calendar in Outlook 2000? I would like to have each member of staff enter appointments on their pc and all the other pcs have the same information. If it can be done, can the same be done...

As part of our back up system I want to copy each of our 4 PCs hard drives over the network to a USB external HDD. However none of the PCs will let me copy the Program Files folder. I have also found that I cannot access this folder from another pc on the network. This means that a program that...