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Done. I've had my latest Windows machine for almost 5 years now. I've had my Mac for 18 months. Both machines stay on all the time. I use the Mac for just about everything, because it is the superior machine. I use the Windows machine (Dell Inspiron) for Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax and...

Is it any good, has anyone bought it ? If so is it worth the cost ?

I kepp having this weird problem with my work laptop. I have an Office toolbar set up at the top right of my screen as well as a few buttons set up on the taskbar on the bottom left. The problem is that I will place items on the toolbar, and then weeks later they will disappear. Is this a...

I'll try to be concise.... After installing my new hard drive, everything seemed to be sweetness and light. Used the computer all day without problems, and shut it down for the night. Next day, it wouldn't start. Some file or other was corrupt or missing. So, I dug out the...

Hi all. I want to get confirmation of a hunch. I am forced to use a PC laptop at work, and it's begun having some hiccups. When I'm running one of the MS Office programs (excel, word, outlook), they will occasionally give me the "not responding" message. After some experimenting, I discovered...

Hi everyone, I've gotten myself a little problem I would like to have your input on. It seems that some of my icons in my task bar is missing. As you can see in the attached image, it does show some icons, but it's missing at least 2 icons from normal running. One is my WAMP php testserver...

I'm trying to configure my wife's new laptop, which runs Windows XP Professional. When I first booted, I had to specify a password for the Administrator account and I was forced to create one other account, which I named ToBeDeleted. It turns out to be an administrator account, too. How can I...

I'm wondering if this has happend to anyone else? This is a serious problem for me. For months I've had this issue with an anti-virus program, I knew it had been taken over and the best I could do was delete the EXE. file. No anti-virus programs I used picked up on this. Now witness today: I'm...

The current JREF psychological experiments in colour blindingness got me wondering:- How do you run Windows 2000 or XP in grey scale mode on a colour TFT monitor? TheGraphics controller is Intel 82865G, but neither that nor Windows' desktop settings offers a greyscale option. 16 colours is the...

There may have been threads on this before, but I want to get my sob story in. A few days ago I was cleaning out my hard drive and then started a defrag. Then I left it running for a few hours. I came back and turned on the monitor, and the computer was frozen showing the screensaver. I don't...

Can anyone recommend good Windows DVR software for capturing from an ATI Wonder card?

Once again, one of my kids has managed to find some software which refuses to run unless I grant them administrator rights. WHO THE HELL WRITES SOFTWARE ASSUMING EVERYONE WHO USES IT WILL HAVE ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS?!?! Whoever wrote Kodak EasyShare, that's who. :mad:

I am currently burning the free Vista Beta 2 to DVD. I am just curious to see if anyone here has played with Vista yet. I've heard some good things so far. The worst I've heard is that it is a memory hog (worse than XP). Anything?

Yeah, yeah, my computer is that old. Anyhoo, on another board I live at, I'm helping to start a new section and want to work a lot off line and then email it. Yes, I'm this computer stupid. What I need to is how to email that. I figured out once, but for the life me, I can't remember how I did...

Full-disclosure: I wrote the article linked below so if you think that is inappropriate, sorry. The article is mainly about securing Windows XP after installation, plus some tools I've found useful. Mainly posting this to get other's thoughts. http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08502...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816520.stm

It's still working and responding --- I'm controlling it with the keyboard. But no mouse pointer. Can anyone think what's happened or say how to get it back? Yes, I have tried rebooting the computer, and no, the mouse hasn't come unplugged. Thanks.

IMO best was Win 2000. NEVER crashed on me, never gave me any real problems I can recall, yet very versatile and more features than I ever really needed. Honorable mention to Win 98 and Win 3.11. Worst? That's so easy: Win ME. "ME" must have stood for "Massive Error" - as in what releasing...

Now and again I need to clean out files. Happened today when I copied a gizillion pictures inadvertantly and had to delete them. Windows, when you select multiple files, makes copies of the damn things if you don't do it fast enough. I sorta felt like Lucy on the choclate assembly line. Can...

Dear Forum Linux/Windows gurus, I've been tasked to get a standard PC, running any version of Linux, to be able to plug in to our Windows network (Server 2003 Standard domain controller), the ideal being that you can boot up, enter any domain user+password and log in to the Linux desktop. I...

A Java applet normally doesn't have permission to open a new browser window (say, to display a page with help). I find this odd, but anyhoo. Does anyone know how to get around this restriction, short of granting full permissions to the applet? ~~ Paul

ie that is my educational guess based on past experiences: http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/22/technology/microsoft_vista/index.htm?cnn=yes And what is it with MS and stupid dorky names for software? It's bad enough they abandoned the very logical number versioning system (ie 3.0, 3.1...

Is there any way to prevent people from being able to drag a folder off somewhere else (thus moving it)?

When I right-click a file in Explorer, I get the context menu as shown in the attachment. As you can see, there's a lot of stuff there, including some items that I never use in a right-click menu. Can I clean it up? I'd like to remove certain items (I have never "Compressed and emailed" in my...

......every time I startup in non-safe mode AAAAAGH! Window ME has come to get me!!!! I'm seriously tempted to switch to Linux, but none of my games'll work

"An E-Mail From God"

Guys, I want to start out by saying that, with few exceptions, I am a Microsoft basher. This is because so many of their products just do not do what they are supposed to do. As much as I like the new features of new technology, all of us know about reliability problems with their computers...

In w2k I have mapped a network drive that requires a different user and password than what I log on with. I have it set to reconnect at logon. The problem comes when I reboot my machine it always prompts for the password because it is trying to connect with the local user. How can I save the...

Is anyone aware of any sites offering free Windows XP desktop themes? The ones I have found so far are all either subscription or make me suspicious of spy- or malware of various kinds.

(Sniff) After 13-1/2 years of virtually trouble-free service, I have finally semi-retired (waaah!) my faithful Amiga 3000. Having been a Commodore user since the '70's, I now find myself in the position of having to start from square one with a new operating system. Well, maybe not square...