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Hi all. I hope that someone can help me. Picture the scene. I have a toshiba laptop that I use only on mains power supply and have been using for 3 years as a PC and not using the battery at all. Battery is still installed but have never disconnected from wall socket. Last night I went to...

Hi, - My personal puter at home op system XP Pro for some reason the clock has decided to be 2 hrs. 20 mins slow. I have never altered the time so how has it decided to lose time just like that. Its no big deal cos I can easily adjust it to correct time but stupid little things bug me when I...

This might sound a silly question but I need to know. I live in the UK and want to remove my 40 gig hard drive, and take it to the USA on holiday. Reason being because I have access to a computer over there. Question: Can I remove the hard drive in the USA puter and replace it with mine and...

This might sound a silly question but I need to know. I live in the UK and want to remove my 40 gig hard drive, and take it to the USA on holiday. Reason being because I have access to a computer over there. Question: Can I remove the hard drive in the USA puter and replace it with mine and...

Hi, - A pretty dumb question but I watched my son build his computer and remember him installing a 300 watt power supply unit. He leaves his puter on all night so does this mean he is consuming the equivalent of 3 x 100 watt light bulbs. A dumb question, but need to know this so I can bollick...

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/10/microsoft-avoid-windows-xp-sp3-preview.html Regards, - Mel in the UK

Hi, - I was surfing/browsing as we do and came accross a download called..... XP Professional service pack 3 build. A mega download so realised it must be an operating system but didn't take it on. - Does anyone know what it is because I was told that Microsoft are not releasing SP3 for some...

Hi, - Don’t know if this is the right room to post the question but can only try. - - I used to be able to insert a sound file into a web page using office XP without any probs. – Since installing SP2 I cannot do it. – The message I get when clicking on sound in the web tools box is - This...

Hi, - Don’t know if this is the right room to post the question but can only try. - - I used to be able to insert a sound file into a web page using office XP without any probs. – Since installing SP2 I cannot do it. – The message I get when clicking on sound in the web tools box is - This...

Hi, - I have ONE hard drive 80gb. - I have partitioned 55Gb of it and this is C drive with XP Pro on it along with my programs. - Partition E has all my data. I need to reformat cos a lot of stuff is screwed up. - My question is - If I reformat "C" drive/partition do I lose the data from "E"...

Hi, - I downloaded trial of Photoimpact ulead 11:00. It gave me 30 days to evaluate it. - Been away for 28 days so now thought I would donload it again but hey.... It just keeps coming up that I have zero days left!!! Does anyone know how I can get another 30 days without reformatting the hard...

Hi -- This is driving me crazy. My mouse cursor just decides to shoot off anywhere on the screen at random. Anyone any idea why this is happening? Thank you. Mel

Please read carefully to understand my goal. I want to partition my current 80 gig hard drive so that I end up being able to use my current XP Professional and also to use Win 98 SE. I also want to be able to have one of the partitions to be used purely to store files onto. The reason for...

Can anyone help please? – My friend uses a Toshiba laptop. Model Satellite 1800 – 712. It is never used anywhere else but in the house and is constantly powered from the mains. (Therefore the battery is obviously charged to 100%) The problem is: - Every now and then the computer just decides...

Hi, - Not a big deal but sooooooooo annoying. Every time I boot up I get the icon in task bar saying Local area connection 2 limited access to internet etc etc.Click here blah blah blah. - - How do I stop this from appearing each time? - Op system is XP Pro. Mel in the UK

Sort of hesitant. My wife bought a Toshiba laptop (Satellite 1800 – 712) from E-bay. Also got the recovery discs and utilities. She or rather I, really need to wipe clean and bring back to factory settings. However, I am hesitant about doing this because “WHAT IF” the previous owner had pass...

Hi --- I asked this question a long time a go, I did it no probs but should have wrote it down cos now forgot. I thought it might have been in my threads but its not there. I have 2 operating systems on each partition. I want the second one in line to become the first one. So that it will...

Panic stations: Picture the scene. - - My hard drive is partitioned into two @ 20 gig each. I have win M/E on “C” drive and XP Pro on “D” drive. Last night wife decided she wanted Windows 98SE back on so reformatted “C” drive with the intention of installing 98. Then she decided - - no, it...

Hi, - - I had to make an insurance claim against my tower. The insurance company have replaced my entire tower and to my delight, superior spec to the one I lost. However, the company they appointed to build it have installed XP Home and included a recovery disc. (Thank you)!!! My question...

Hi All. - - Sometime a go I created a dual boot. Win ME on one partition and XP pro on the other. I have just reformatted XP and now when I boot up it is showing XP Pro twice and Win ME beneath offering 30 seconds to make my mind up what to boot to otherwise it boots to XP. Question is: How...