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Hi Everyone, Before I had Broadband I used a program called "On Speed" in an attempt to increase my dial-up connection speed, and it did work OK. I now don't need "On Speed" so I deleted it. I now find that I can't send any messages in Outlook Express, I'm running version 6. I've tried the...

Hi Guys & Gals, I'm running WindowsXP on my PC, and have IE6 and Outlook Express - Version 6.00.2800.1123, updated with xpsp1. Recently I find that I can't send e-mails from my Outlook Express account. It receives New Mail OK, but when I try to 'Send' a New Message I get the following Error...

I have been looking at MS 'Power Tools', and played around with the 'Icons' utility, to remove the 'tails' form the desk-top short cuts. Well, it did the job but completely ruined my desk-top layout. I tried 'Restore' but it didn't make any difference, so there was nothing for it but to 'rebuild...

Hi Guys and Gals, I heard somewhere that too much defraging wears out your HD. I use 'Diskeeper Lite' about once a week as I am an IT Journalist and test loads of utilities which I get rid of after thet've been tested. So does too muck wear out the HD, or is it an urbam myth? Thanks, Mel66

I have just got connected to Broadband. Yes, we're a bit slow in the West Country! Everything is OK, but I have great difficulty in trying to reconnect/enable Broadband when the PC is unused for some hours, and have to reboot to reconnect which is a bit of a pain. This happens whether or not the...

Hi y'All, This morning,when I started work on my PC,which runs Windows "Home" edition, I found a little message saying that Windows had detected files that were not genuine Windows files, or words to that effect, adding that because of this Windows may become unstable and asking me to insert...

Hi Guys & Gals, I had been having problems with my printer drivers loading on start-up, and decided to uninstall & reinstall the drivers. The printer is an 'HP Photosmart 7350'. When I try to reinstall the drivers from the installtion CD I get MS Error Code 2343 - "This device is already in use...

A friend has just bought a DELL Laptop which came pre-loaded with McAfee Firewall and also their Virus program. He didn't particularly want to use McAfee and uninstalled them. He then downloaded Zone Alarm's Firewall and Grisoft/AVG's Virus programs. So far so good. Or was it? Well,no. Every...

I had a JVC Digital Camcorder for Xmas and have tried to install it on my PC. I have followed the instructions that came with the softare and installed the drivers sucessfully. Also the digital program,'Image Maker'. The instructions that came with the camcorder are a bit scant but I've done my...

I have updated to Grisoft's AVG version 7.0. It'd great but screwed up receipt of mail in 'MailWasher' and 'Outlook Express'. I did a system restore and reinstalled version 7.0 without the e-mail option and it's fine. Has anyone any ideas what may be causing this conflict please? Thanks

I am completing a package-course on the web and need to access a particular site which I am registered with. I can access the login page but when I try to get into the program detail I keep getting thrown back to the login page! I am running IE6. Luckily,I have an older computer running IE5...

I am finding that certain web sites are unable to be accessed usind Explorer 6. The page says 'Done' but it remains blank. Also when I try to log-in to some web sites I keep getting fired back to the log-in page. I am informed by the web-master that this is a known problem with XP and Explorer 6...

I have just "inherited" my son's old computer which was running the infamous Windows ME, which kept on crashing etc.. I formatted the HD and loaded Windows 98 - I had the disk from my first computer. Anyway it's 99.9% fine, but will keep going into hibernation mode when it powers-off, which...

Having had a couple of 'near goes' with the indefatigable and uncrashable ( I wish) Windows XP I have decided to start backing up my entire system. That's about 22GB's worth of data. To this end I have aquired an IOMEGA 80GB Desktop External HDD. A "free" copy of Iomega's Backup program and...

I am about to upgrade a fried's PC from '95 to '98. Does anyone have any tips for doing this please? He has backed up all his data and has enough memory. If you know of any links please let me know. Thanks

I am running Windows 98 with Outlook Express 5 on my Laptop, and until recently all was well. However, now I can't send out e-mails with 'Word' attachments, and am having to cut and paste the terxt to the main body of the e-mail to get them out. Has anyone got any idea what the problem might be...

I am a freelance journalist for a computer magazine and have recently been testing Graphic Tablets. I am running Windows XP-Home and Internet Explorer 6, including service pack. One tablet I tested,which was made by Nisis,was completely incompatible with XP Home, which crashed every time I tried...

Hi folks, I've just installed all the patches from the microsoft site, including an nVidia driver update. The result - my monitor resolution was completely screwed up and I couldn't adjust it back to the correct resolution. It was like running in Safe Mode. I had to do a restore to correct...

I am using a Compaq notebook running Windows 200 Pro. Until yesterday all was well but it now takes over 15 minutes to boot-up and start, and it's impossible do anything useful with the computer. I can't even do a scan disc. The computer says it's running svchost.exe. but I can't stop it. It's...

Everytime I view a folder on the Desktop in XP(Home), by double clicking in the Desktop Icons the files contained in the folder show up as 'Tiles' and I have to change the 'View'on the toolbar to 'Icons'. I prefer 'Icons' to 'Tiles' and it's the only way to see all, or most of, the files...