Hi all I'd appreciate your thoughts before I spend any money, please. Following a big thunderstorm the other day (it's the monsoon season...
Thanks very much to you both for your help. I looked at George's PC again after visiting the links re Blaster & Sasser. A virus looked likely and,...
Note to administrator: This is mainly an XP question, but it does involve an element about internet connection. I’ve submitted it to the XP...
Thanks, both of you, for your advice. I'll be visiting Dad early next week & will try it out then. When I've finished I'll post back to let you...
Hi all, Just a quick question, please. My Dad's just bought an optical mouse & has asked me to install it. I'm generally OK with this sort of...
Pleased to hear it, Mick, and thanks for posting back.
Dansouza's post about using the screensaver password option works, of course, but provides only extremely rudimentary protection - all anyone has...
Hi Mick TonyT's reply about using the BIOS seems a good one, but if you don't feel confident enough to try altering those settings then it's...
Merlin The ASCII key combination PeteC suggested works for me. Have a look at this for info about Hunky Dory (or ask David Bowie!)
Here are the results, as promised in my last post. Firstly, thanks to PeteC for the tips about Screen Resolution & colour settings. I've got...
Thanks, Pete, your reply looks as though it will be enormously helpful. I'll try out your various suggestions when I see my parents next weekend....
Starting Win 98 (contd.) & Display glitches Further to my last post, everything seems to be up & running properly again, except for the following...
Thanks, Pete, for taking the trouble to reply. What I said was correct; with the Emergency Disk in A: drive & the original Windows 98 installation...
Sorry, Merlin, I misled you. THere's no real error message, just the "Error reading drive A: Abort, Retry, etc" if I haven't put the Emergency...
Hi all. I've run into terrible problems trying to sort out my parents' PC & hope someone can help. I'm pretty sure that some important files...
Having posted to this BBS, I was just about to post to another one when I came across this: Symantec re jdbgmgr hoax which will be of...
My parents have been on the phone to me several times today as they received an e-mail from their nephew to say his system had been infected by a...
Thanks. It's a PC 1512 so one of the phone numbers you've given may be useful. I'm pretty sure it's not a monitor problem as well, but you've...
Thanks, Steve. I've tried adjusting what I can on the settings but without luck. It did occur to me to try a different monitor (the Amstrad 286 is...
Here's something unusual. On a very old machine I've still got Windows 3.0 installed (it dates back to around 1992). I rarely use the machine,...
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