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I believe that I need an external DVD drive to use with an Acer laptop to solve this problem: Playing DVDs using the internal drive in a lecture situation where the DVD is paused for long periods causes a very poor playing performance when taken out of pause again. The DVD stutters and stops...

Win XP SP3 Dell, Pentium 3, Netgear router and Netgear wireless card. This old Dell has been working perfectly well on my own wireless network until I 'dared' to try to connect to another network. Now the original wireless network always displays "limited or no connectivity". There is no...

There are two user accounts on this machine - one named 'Administrator' and the other 'Guest' (turned off). When I create a new account the only option is for one with administrator rights. If I create a new account with a particular name, upon reboot my original 'Administrator' account has...

Outlook has always worked well for my emails but for no apparent reason any hyperlink, like a website or a mailto link will now not show in the SENT message. Whilst in COMPOSE mode the hyperlinks are active but they become inactive when viewed in the SENT box and also are inactive for the email...

I use WinDVD to play a DVD disc for a lecture. I need to pause for long lengths of time and then start playing again. Trouble is that after pausing for more than about 5 seconds the disc stops spinning and takes nearly 5 seconds to start playing again and audio will stutter. Playing from pause...

A particular programme installs normally but just will not run. I have disabled UAC and tried combinations of DEC. I also tried the 'run as admin' option on the .exe - all to no avail. Vista invites me to send MS this error report: Files that help describe the problem...

I am able to install my favourite audio editing prog ok but when running the prog I get this message: "Your windows log in has not enough rights to use 'this programme' completely eg CD burning, CD reading". I then find that the programme runs ok but the CD burner is not recognised. I am running...

A friend has a Dell Dimension 2400 on which I have had to reinstalled Win XP using the supplied disc after a mains power failure corrupted the OS. But how do I load the drivers?? I have all the original discs supplied by Dell including one which says it contains drivers but when the disc is...

I have two clients using Outlook Express 6 and XP Both clients have this same problem: During typing a reply or a newly created mail, the text can just disapear to be replaced with a blank page. This happens seemingly randomly and sometimes doesn't occur for weeks on end. The vanishing emails...

I have a new sata drive and mobo. How do I get the HDD activity led going? Has this facility been dropped with these new drives? The connections are on the mobo but don't light the led. Have tried reversing the polarity. Any ideas?

I have connected a maxtor drive, which has just been working as the master in a win'98 machine, as a slave in a new XP machine in order to access its data. The bios picks up the maxtor as a slave and device manager also shows it as a maxtor drive. The problem is it does not appear in My...

XPSP2 Home AM bios new Gigabyte mobo In standby mode the psu fan continues to run. With hibernate the fan does stop. I also have an newish Asus mobo with Amibios and XPSP2 Pro - With this the fan DOES stop in standby mode. The psu's in both machines are modern and similar 400W ATX types but...

Outlook Express 6 with XP SP2 A friend has a simple dialup account. Compose a new email, Send it to the Outbox then send/receive - the email is sent but the recipient doesn't get it. Looking at the servers mailboxes on the web, the email appears in the SPAM box and is addressed back to my...

I find Windows ability to memorize login information very useful indeed but how can I change it if it was mis-typed to start with and then saved? Whereabouts is this information stored? How can I correct mistakes? using XPpro SP2

I have a pci card with two FW ports. I have always used just the one port to supply an external sound device and looped through from that to a Lacie external drive. As an experiment, instead of looping through, I connected the hard drive directly to the second port on the PCI card. There seemed...

I want to wake up my PC from STANDBY or HIBERNATE when the telephone rings. There is a unused LAN port, a dialup modem and I have a wireless internet connection. Any ideas for a simple system however crude? My PC has a modern mobo with XPpro SP2 and many wake-up options in the Bios. Many...

Documents & settings / local settings / TEMP is being inundated with files of the type 67exmodule32d.3.exe. AVG detects these as "Trojan horse proxy.sfz or.ful" and will delete on demand; however, the .exe file then appears in the 'processes' tab of Windows Task manager and consumes vast amounts...

I have a Micro Star mobo type MS 6382 ver 1 and want to use it if possible. When powered up the monitor (which works on another system) doesn't come out of standby. PSU voltages seem correct, the processor heatsink gets gently warm and various components on the mobo get normally warm. I have...

Two PCs with the same problem: Cannot access Hotmail past login box. Page hangs forever. No trouble with any other website. Hotmail access is fine with an XP machine. Both PCs use IE5 & Win95. Have tried all of Cupid's suggestions in thread615-1147183 to no avail. Any ideas? Philip

Trying to open any existing Works 2000 database file won't work and Windows 98SE reports 'illegal operation'. If I start database by creating a new document then my original file can be opened OK. Have tried reinstalling programme to no effect. If I create a new database file, save it then try...