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  1. JohnDennis

    Wacom Bamboo tablet looses registration with monitor

    I have a WACOM Bamboo Fun CTE450 tablet which intermittently looses registration with the monitor ie the cursor on the screen is not in the same place as the pen on the tablet. It works fine on my Macbook pro, my wife's Vista laptop and another windows desktop running XP, but the desktop I need...
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    Strange DVD writing problem on XP

    I have 2 XP machines exhibiting the following identical problem with DVD writers. I can read CDs and DVDs. I can write on RW discs or RAM discs but normal -R DVDs fail after about 6% of typically 3GB transfer. I have used 4 different suppliers blank DVDs with the same result. Machine A has XP...
  3. JohnDennis

    Reverting from dual to single boot and upgrading disc

    I have W2K on my C drive (3GB)of 40GB (rest used for data) and XP prof on my D drive (12GB). C is the active primary and D is also a primary.The D drive is a physical drive of 20GB with another partition containing applications. I am rapidly running out of space on the 20GB drive and I want to...
  4. JohnDennis

    Outlook 2003 hangs accessing inbox

    Windows XP with Office 2003 I had a crash when downloading large mail items from the pop server. The result is that now when I try to open the inbox Outlook just hangs. All the other folders are OK. I guess I have an inbox corruption and I have run scanpst.exe which said it found errors and...
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    Secure Digital Card reader installs on XP but won't read data

    I have been struggling to install a simple USB 1.1 Integral Secure Digital card reader. The reader installs OK on XP but I am unable to read data -the light flashes but XP does not seem to be able to make any sense of the data and I get a message "The request could not be performed because of an...
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    Cant run new install Norton 2004 with existing virus

    I have installed Norton 2004 OK but it wont start. Have checked with the Norton site and the virus W32.HLLW.DONK.L is detected on the machine. The fix from Symantec is to download the latest def files and run a scan to clear it. I have downloaded the file ok but Norton still wont start and...
  7. JohnDennis

    xp set up hangs at "starting windows"

    I am trying to get a dual boot W2K/xp system going but am getting the following problems: Doing a clean instal from the XP cd the setup process hangs at the "Starting windows" action for about 3 mins then carries on and appears to instal Ok. When then booting XP, it hangs with a blank...
  8. JohnDennis

    Running applications on peer to peer network

    Can someone please tell me whether it is possible to run an application on m/c B from m/c A on a W2K peer to peer network. (specifically Outlook Express). File and printer sharing work fine but the application only loads from the local machine. Thanks
  9. JohnDennis

    Outlook Express on peer to peer network

    I have 2 W2K systems connected on a peer to peer network. One machine has Imaging software and files the other has email and internet. Both machines are at the same software level. File sharing and printer sharing work fine but I want to be able to run Outlook Express V6 from the imaging machine...
  10. JohnDennis

    Minolta Scan Dual - dark transparency scans

    I have a Minolta Dimage scan dual which scans negatives (colour and B/W) ok but produces very dark transparency scans. Have not used transparency scan for some time but as I remember it was OK when new. System is recent W2K build and all drivers have been updated. Same problem on old W95SE. Is...
  11. JohnDennis

    Can't read CDs created with Easy CD creator 5 on W98

    I have 52 closed data CDs created with Easy CD creator 5 on W95SE. The data is mainly Photdeluxe image files with some Word docs. I have upgraded recently to W2000 (with dual boot)and am unable to read any of these CDs. System sees them as blank discs and asks if I want to format. The CDs read...

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