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I hate wireless and have had client with same problem. eventually traced to the computer and the wireless usb key getting too hot. once they were more adaquatley cooled all worked as well as in the next room! M

Since they have to be on different partitions one can use a partition manager and delete the partition you do not want. you may have to modify the boot file to remove the entry for the old partition. M

Why bother with McAfee? It is really part bloatr ware and ther are many 'free' anti virus that are not so complicated eg Avast and Avg Try those instead. M

How true and even though getting unfavourable comments I still believe that giving and sharing whet youactually know is actually the best way of learing new ways as well as ther are those who need to know yur knowledge. after all a well tread path needs reploughing sometime!! Good luck …

TRY USING HIGHER ip ADDRESSES LIKE 192.168.10.20 &21 AS OFTEN CARDS,ROUTERS AND adsl MODEMS CHOOSE THESE AS STATiC ADDRESSES FOR THEIR OWN USE; (oops caps lock on!) m

it may also be aorth checking inboot.ini, win.ini and system.ini (old boot compatible files from win95 and won 3 etrc as there may be booting files here that freeze it and just need reomoving!

You could try a boot cd or if able then use dos! (disable bios startup from HD. find an old DOS start up disk and then you can use the dos commands to delete directorys or progs not wanted to free up space. dangerous but works. you will then have …

I am not sure but there are significant differences in the way that win2003 (xp under the bonnet) and win2000 (winnt under the bonnet) use the frmatting on the hard disk. it is likely that you may have to update! M

1. upadate if XP to Sp 2 as a minimum. Connection to the net may require knowing the exact site but usually edn software is ok. give more details M

I know tis sounds oild and corny but have youcleaned the ouse and after that checked the mouse connectors! They are falible and can give stuid reslts if the mlouse does not have the detectors int he mouse working Ok M

Oh what a bother. I have installed Advanced system care and I have used AVG or preferrably avast and that has coped with most of th problems you have. try themm both and see if the results works BOL M ps they are both fre and Very Good;

We have had a similair problem using a music program to actually play scores of music. It hogs the media player and when you close the music program it doe snot et go of the player and so any input although input will not play. Check the settings on the …

if you get to a dos prompt > then typing ? will give you the list of commands and then if you type the command (dir)with the word (help) such as DIR HELP it will give you help. or type DOS HELP into google. M

I read recently that Windows 7 when it arrives will have to be a clean install. Frankly running a small home network and the idea of a complete clean install of both software and data doe s not impress me. Having run the virtual machine and quite like WIN7 has …

Here is a very old fashioned way to do it! Send all your old outlook emails to yourself (but leave a copy on your ISP server.) Then download them all in thunderbird. Haven't tried this but have used it for a similiar process when completely stuck. BOL M

Oh yes! I have a similiar clietn problem! In this case it is a livebox and usb key wifi. with exactly same problems of weak and strong with one comptuer. The solution as far as I was concerend was Clean out the registry and do a thorough clean up of …

if all else fails then there are some usual servers for most ISPS like OUTGOING = SMTP.ISP.FR where ISP is the name of the ISP and FR is the country (in this case france!) INCOMING= POP.ISP.FR (or in older system POP3.ISP.FR) Normally this guesswork does work! M

I have found an interesting note on this from experience. I have xppro sp3 on one machine and xphome on another. The network will NOT talk to each other if both have dynic DHCP IP addressing. It DOES work when the XP PRO machine has dynamic DHCP and the XP …

I have also had the problem of spam. Solved in two ways both different but similiar. My ISP has an option to remove known SPAm directly from my inbox and I have taken out this free option and it does a good job but a bit on the safe side …

Since nothing appears to work (does it bleep at all,° If it bleeps then at least something is working but does the power suppy and / or its fans work? If you had a power surge or even a close lightning strike nearby in the night it is possible the …

I think maybe you are creating user accounts and giving them the rights of an administrator. If you make an account with 'username' and it has administrator rights it will be able to see all other accounts and vice versa. better to create a user account with 'limited' rights andthen …

I have sometiumes found that uninstalling can be done by 1: Turn OFF restore 2: reboot to safe mode 3: manually remove all traces of the program (registry clean, directory/ies removal) and any associated fiels th&t you know of! 4: Do a good registry clean (or manaully remove any registry …

most printers have means in the 'properties' to do some programming (goto control panel and then printers and then choose yours and then properties.) These properties are actually inside a printer driver software. sometimes using a differetn driver fromt he same manufacturer may (and ony may ) give more facilities. …

Here is a small thought that took me time to cure and similiar to yours. We used to have great sound , beeps, cds, dvds etc. We then installed a very large expensive sell known music program and it 'highjacked' the sould system all to itself and muted the rest …

sounds lijke one of two ideas might help. If the old game is written in VGA or worse EGA then on a big screen you may have to downgrade the scereen to VGA por EGA and lose quality to get it yto fil the screen. However you say it also …

Ther is also a chance that the BIOS is not automatically set to detect drives. changing positions can throw the bios if it is set for a manual detect. Just see in the bios if ALL the drives are detectedIf not theyn you may have some tweaking to do with …

Wow! Normally any 2000/xp/vista will recognise devices such as cameras, memory sticks, drives, Cds; dvds, hard disc etc as long as the drivers foir such devices are instlled or are normal microsfot recognised drivers; If you have special units such as memory sticks tht at not recognised you may need …

there is a file I think called normal.dot. .dot is the file tht has al the details about margisns, defaults etc. if this has become corrupted WORD will not work. just delee the normal.dot and all may work. I can't remeber wher is i is kept but probably in the …

you can use a router withur x over cables. all tht is requred is a router and then cnfigure the computers/ firewalls to accept each other using DIFFERENT addresses for the computers BOL M

The system folder contains a lot of 'system' files that windows uses for itself. Rather better to leave it alone! idea might be to create a different folder that you can use for your programs and then 'hide' the folder! (you may have to unhide it and rehide it in …

it seems to me either to be a keyboard problem. (sometimes onprtables the keyboard cable can get disturbed and a line of keys not work. Or it is a driver problem nd the reinstallation has not put in the exact drive to match the keyboard. Suggest using google or sony …

is there a folder inside Windows or windows32? if not then there should be! If there is look in it and see if it is empty .. It should be but there may be a gash file there that is blocking its use. remove it / them. If there is …

or with the connector on the motherboard (older)computers can have problems with the pin connector and the solder joint s on hte mboard if the cables are removed and replaced often or carelessly! M

also worth checking which drive the pagefil.sys (virtual memory) file is on as if left to its own devices windows can enlarge this file... M

agre with all above but also check if the BIOS recognises the drive at startup. If not you may have to enter via driver as above or enter in bios by hand the drive details or configuration of cables masters and slaves... M

The beeping on start up is the computer saying 'I cant use the .... device!' The type of device it cant use is determined by the number of beeps. ie 3 beeps I think means the video is not present etc. There is a list on googlle. If the main …

I know this may sound corny and u've prob tried it but right clck on hte scren go tto proerties and check (if u can) that the menus and icons are set to be visible. I had one client with this problem and the cure was to turn on the …

water (& in my case wine) and keyboards do not mix. Laptop keyboards are two rubber membranes with a graphite type of mix a thte points where keys are. If these are damagd in any way it is a new keyboard (or worse it could have damaged the keybard driver …

I have had the same problem with an HP some time ago. The problem is a faulty componenet in the charging voltage componenets on the mother board and it is only curable by changing the lmotherboard, so I continue to use the charger / lmains unit and runit from that …

I assume tyhat you have the hard drives on one cable / motherboard connector and the cd/dvd drive on the other cable / connector. it may be that by putting one hard drive on each cable and then the cd drive and / or dvd drive on the cable with …

I used to use IRVANview as a good all round viewer. M

I think maybe youve solved it, but I had asimiliar problem when I took apart a machine recently to find that he hard disk cables had been connected wrongly o the motherboard... ie the first hard drive slot had the cd & DVd and the hard drives were on the …

There are a number of good registry cleaners around.try www. Iobit.com. Then remove the folder inwhich hte offending program is and then use the registry cleaner. M

It is also possible the print head itself has gone u/s. they do in hte main have a limited life and are often quoted by hte manufacturer as parts that need changing after so much use. however the cost of doing a print head change can be more than the …

Wireless does not travel well through any metal frameworks, or through buildings with lots of thick stone walls. It may also be that ther eis some nearby close frequency wireless signals that are affecting yours (microwaves or portable electronic gear. they shouldn't but often do reduce the signal you want. …

I know this sounds corny but have you tried another externalmicrophone. I have had a number of clients with dead microphones!! M

sometimes there is an installation log file that lists all the files installed so you can searchand delete but with DLL files be carefull as sometimes they are used by other programs which need them. M

I tried Ubuntu 8.10 and found there were times when it threw up a number of errors but mostly after buring the cd iso etc. I then tried the latest Kubuntu Version 10 i think and that has worked a lot better.... over to u M

There are also a number of partition programs with ISO images egoogle will get them. cut a CD and go from there by booting with the cd, this is same type of operation as the XP CD as above. Then u can partition or format teh whole disk and reinstall …

Tech mags did a survey about a year or more ago and found that here was very little difference if any between the good pricey anti virus and the freebies. I have used both AVG or AVAST and both have given long and reliable anti vius (and in hte case …