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I have just been looking at a problem with IE5 that has me baffled. When you click a link (google search results for example) it opens in a seperate window with an egg timer and just freezes. If you know the URL and type it in manualy you can view any site without a problem. Any suggestions...

I installed some Cat 5 sockets as a favour for a friends company. Wish I had never bother now! I tested them with a cable tester (cheap and nasty - just checks each wire in turn for breaks) and then I patched a phone through to every socket. The phones worked and still work perfectly...

I have an access database that I need to share with a friend. We both need to be able to update the database and I dont want to have two copies and mess about merging them. Any suggestions as the best way to share it? We are in two seperate physical locations and both have 512k connections...

As far as I am aware, nothing has been installed recently and there has been no changes to the system. It is windows 2k and was working fine yesterday. Now when I try an open outlook express I get an egg timer for a second and then nothing. Does anyone have any ideas?

I need to design myself a decent backup strategy. I currently have 2 lots of data I cannot afford to lose. 1 is my email (outlook 2k internet mail only) and another is a folder currently stored on my desktop 40mb ish. I currently copy my outlook pst file to another disk in the same system...

Advice please! I need to install a wireless bridge between two buildings. We have 2 cabled networks in two buildings less than 100m apart. They are just in line of sight (one corner of 1st building to one corner of second) and so would definatley be line of sight for two externaly mounted...

Is it possible to buy parts and assemble a laptop in the same way most of us would knock up a pc? I have been building and selling desktops for years and am interested in building laptops 2. Can it be done? Anyone suggest parts suppliers? Anyone done it? Cheers, Mike

We all know that format doesnt delete data beyond recovery. I am collecting some old systems from company who want confirmation that all hard dirsks have been wiped beyond data recovery. Can anyone suggest a good util for doing this? I dont want to sign to say the data has gone if it hasnt...

Not really the right forum I dont suppose but........ Can anyone recommend any software diagnostic tools they use regularly? What problems do you use them to check? I have experimented with RAM testing software and never found anything reliable. What about disk checkers? Anyone know of one...

I am going to look at a friends computer 2morrow (hence the fact that the details are a but vague). Apparently when he tries to access any websites where they ask for passwords (secure server stuff i guess), he just gets this page is not available. He is running windows XP (home I would...

I know this doesnt really belong in here but I thought I would try anyway! Before we roll out our IIS server we need some free ( & popup free) hosting. Can anyone recommend anywhere? Only need it for a week or 2. Mike

Is it possible to download the latest virus defentions for a complete install of an older version of norton? For example I have norton antivirus 2002 and a 56k connection. Can I download the virus defenition files elsewhere (like work) and then install and run the update without going...

We have outlook 2000 setup to access several accounts on the exchange 2000 server. Each user has there own mailbox + some have others such as customer services or sales. How can I set the default outbound account?? Also in fiddling with this, I managed to add a personal folder that was my...

I am trying to resolve an issue with our filemaker databases. We have lots of large databases accessed by many people over tcp/ip. Some of the databases are starting to slow down (100,000+ records) which is acceptable. One thing I have found though is that some people have faster acces then...

I am trying to access my home machine using vnc. I have a dynamic IP so am running a dynamic IP > DNS update util in conjunction with no-ip.com. My problem is that norton personal firewall will ot let me in. Any ideas? I cant ping my domain name either (again due to norton of course). I...