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Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a way with VBA to make the mouse highlight objects, and then produce a hovering box containing results that are drawn from another worksheet? To help explain, I have a picture of a world map, and a list of contacts, I've altered the cells to fit the...

Is there a way in Excel to only calculate the first two points of a decimal number? For example, I have a forumla that produces the result 0.332521 - and I only want my calculation to be based on 0.33 (with no regards to the rest of the numbers), is there a way to either limit my calculation...

A query for those of you who are feeling less muddled than me. I have a huge spreadsheet of international people, and would love to be able to make a flashy world map which would list contacts in the country/region when I scolled over that particular part of the map. Possible using Excel in...

Hello all, I've recently come back from a business trip to Holland (and sadly, it was just business), during which I managed to acquire a copy of MS Office 2003, for a price which I though was quite reasonable - I've now got home, installed it, and marvelled at the wonderfully foregin language...

'lo all, Is it possible to restrict access to certain features/sites on any internet browser? Preferably I'd also like to be able to lock the settings so that you'd need a password to change them back. Thanks

Hello again! I've just been asked what a couple of files are - one is called plugin142-01.trace, and on one profile it won't open - but on the other it's called an SDF file and is rather large. What is it? Can I delete it? Where did it come from?

'lo all, I know I can stop things starting up on booting the PC wby using msconfig - but is there any programs (preferrably free!) that will list what the programs are? And allow me to start and stop them from there? Ta!

'lo all, I have a computer running XP (1.21Ghz Duron processor, 256MB RAM) which suffers from a delay when you try to execute any programs. This only happens when you first boot up XP, but the delay until the programs open can be minutes - there's very little running at the start up of XP...

Hello all, I am currently trying to RD a computer running XP Pro, with one that is running XP Home. I've sent an invite from the PC on XP Pro to the Home machine, but keep getting an error message: "Remote Assistance connection could not be established because the remote host name could not...

Hello all, I've managed to figure out how to use RD to control other computers on a LAN, and even from over the internet - but I'm not sure how I would go about such things when a router is installed on the computer that I'm trying to control, I need more than a little help, unfortunatley...

Hello all, I have a local LAN network of 5 computers (all running XP Pro) and while someone was using the main computer (Which serves as a server) it apparently shut down on them, upon re-boot they selected to boot from 'Last Good Config', and now the computer won't detect any of the others on...

Hello all, I was just wondering if there was any easy way for me to check the speed of my USB ports, the OS is XP Home if that makes any difference.. Thanks

'lo all, How powerful is Remote Desktop, and how much control does it give you over the Desktop your controlling? Does it show EVERYTHING that happens on that desktop, pop-ups and all? Thanks

A computer that recently failed to boot up (It would attempt to load XP Pro, but crash before the loading screen appeared) until it was re-formatted has recently been giving me more cause for concern - first of all a License validation problem...

Hello all, I've recently had to re-format and re-install a computer, due to hardware changes - however, this isn't the first time that such a thing has been done (previously it had been formatted for numerous reasons) and now on boot up it produces a screen saying that it's having problems...

'lo all, I was just wondering if it was possible to read items for a text file which is laid out similar to: &name1=ghost pig&score1=118580&name2=ghost pig&score2=44030&name3=blink 182 fan&score3=15700 And reproduce the read part - say for instance I just want to read the first name out of...

Hello all, Is there any way that I can replicate the current contents of my HDD, so that when re-formating (for whatever reason) I can simply copy the replica onto the blank drive and not have to re-install all the programs again? Thanks for any help

'lo, I'm currently (not right now, but in the near future) having to move a PC out into the workshop area of our garage - the temperature out there is affected by the good ol' English weather, meaning that it can vary between the extremes of hot and cold - I was wondering if I should take any...

'lo all, I've been asked to clean up a friend of a friends PC, which has taken to running slower than normal - so I've been compiling a CD of programs that I can run to check for viruses, Spyware, general rubbish - and wondered if you had any comments of the few I had added, and if you'd...

Hello all, I've got a wireless network set-up, which has been working fine between two desktop computers, one using 98 the other XP, and have now been told to add a lap-top to this setup. I've networked everything okay (the computers can all see each other) however, the internet speed is very...