I should probably update my list of recommendations as a few things have changed.
Security

AVG Free
Lavasoft Ad-aware SE Personal
Spybot Search & Destroy
Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer
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I got a few things, but the only tech present that I got was a Bluetooth dongle. Didn't want one until recently, but as my PDA has bluetooth, I thought I'd get a dongle for my laptop so I can play...

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AJAX is simply a set of technologies that already existed, but was brought together and marketed in a different way. The same could be said for DHTML when that was the big thing.

Personally, I...

Foxit Reader - Adobe Acrobat Reader is between 60 and 70mb in size. Foxit Reader is roughly 2mb in size. They both do exactly the same things and Foxit Reader doesn't suffer from ads and requests to...

Normally I would have said the server was at fault, but if it's working with another system then it's clearly not the case. Try stuff like restarting the system and/or stopping the ftp connection and...

I only started posting on this forum again a few days ago after going a long time without posting anything. I've been a member since around the middle of 2004. I thought I'd better re-introduce...

Have you checked whether your firewall is blocking the internal IP of your laptop?

(By internal I mean the one that your router assigns to the laptop - should be something like 192.168.0.xxxx)

Sometimes memory doesn't fully work if the sticks are made by different manufacturers.

Click here. (http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html)

I suggest you have a look at AVG Free and McAfee Stinger. While Norton has been a good program for some, I haven't found it to be too brilliant and AVG has worked fine. McAfee Stinger is a good...

Partition Magic seems to be able to do that.

The great thing about all those programs and utilities are that they are completely free. In addition to the list I originally posted, I've recently changed my IRC client to IceChat instead of mIRC....

I just got a Dell Axim X50v for Christmas and it's brilliant. I've wanted one of these for ages - one of the reasons being I have an absurd amount of meetings I need to keep track of at uni and I...

I've got 100 if anyone wants one.

The fact that you're getting a light makes this so much more confusing. If the psu wasn't doing anything, yet an old system is fine, I would think that the psu is either not connected properly or is...

I don't really buy the argument that Java is the only thing to be used for high-level corporate web design. PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages on the planet and it has also gained OOP...

I do get tired of seeing this argument on forums. The fact is that IE is insecure because it's integrated into the OS structure. This means that any weaknesses exploited in the coding of IE can then...

Have you checked things like the cables and whether there are corrupted sectors of the HD?

My recommended list of software is:

Antivirus - AVG Free Edition
Anti-spyware - Lavasoft Adaware SE Personal, Spybot S&D
Firewall - Zonealarm Personal Firewall
Registry - RegCleaner
System...

I have a BTEC Computer Engineering qualification. It's a bit like the A+ course. Other than that I'm currently in the second year of a three year Honours degree in Computer Science with Business...

If you want to install Linux on your desktop without having to wipe everything from the hard disk then get yourself the latest copy of Partition Magic. It allows you to resize partitions to whatever...

I recommend any book by O'Reilly.

Click Here (http://www.oreilly.com)

How are you burning you're CDs? Do you use .iso images or drag n' drop (in a Winows Explorer style)?

What CD burning software do you use?

You might also want to try one of .
these (http://www.google.com/search?q=Intel+I430VX&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

You need to find the keyboard settings which are in the control panel.

Hope this helps.

Check your power cable to see if there's a loose connection. If there is then that could have corrupted the file. If you don't have a loose connection then I suggest getting a new hard drive. They're...

Hmmm. Did you actually reformat the hard disk or did you just reinstall the OS from a CD?? If you did the latter then some of the file may have remained intact while your system was being returned to...

You can't go wrong with Mozilla Thunderbird. Go to this site (http://www.mozilla.org) and you'll be able to download it. It's totally free.

If you leave it running (e.g. minimised) while you're on...

What websites did you try? I could do a bit of testing for you to see if it's a problem at your end or whether it's to do with the websites themselves

It could just be that there's what's called a...

First of all, I don't know how you managed to remove IE - infact, I don't think you will have totally. Internet Explorer is integrated into the source code of Windows XP.

I helped my grandad with...

If it says 'Explorer' and not 'Internet Explorer' then it basically means The thing that allows you to navigate folders. You'll notice that if there is ever an error with explorer the taskbar will...

For Visual Basic, I would recommend getting the 'Visual Basic.NET Bible', written by Bill Evjen, Jason Beres and various others. It rpovides an excellent explanation of the differences between v6 and...

Interesting question. In terms of programming coursework at university there was a GUI program called Dress Shop which, using extended user defined classes stored specific information about each item...

This book, which is written by David A. Wyatt and Deryck F. Brown is excellent for explaining some of the more complex aspects of data structures and gives plenty of examples of various different...

I think it's better to go with two browsers. For Win 98 I would avoid Internet Explorer like the plague. There are security leaks aplenty which means constant updating is required. It also doesn't...

I had a small problem finding out what the motherboard make was on my system once as I bought the basic tower from somebody and have upgraded it. The way I did it was to take the case off and write...

When I say text file this could be any sort of file that has text in it. This means it could be anything from C++ surce code to a Microsoft Word document. As far as properties go, just think of any...

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