Despite their advertising, Open Office is NOT compatible with MSWord. If they have an opposite view, I'd be happy to hear it. My wife is the...
Thanks, folks.
A program like "Registry Mechanic" or the registry clean-up routine in your Security program will do that for you. I clean the registry with RM...
I'm failry adept at deciphering acronyms. In the RV world, I'm familiar with DW, DH and even SWMBO, but BSOD has me baffled. BS is a well known...
Everything on line this year. Amazon, LLBean, Barnes and Noble and Thinkgeek.
Welcome from an ex-pat Lancastrian now living in Anacortes, Washington State, USA (top LH corner).
You haven't even scratched the surface. Try this one: "My plates are killing me. I've been up and dahn the apples all day! " This is Cockney...
Flyboy: I had a similar problem. The USB port my printer was connected to contiued to work, but none of the others could recognize a USB device...
I'm actually talking about the "Safe to remove hardware" icon in the tool tray, not the add/remove in Control panel. I'm comfortable with the...
There's only one sure fix - get a mouse! The clown that invented touch pads should be boiled in oil. Seriously, we had mega-problems with the...
You're correct, Mark. I shut down every night and reboot the next morning. My printer has been a USB device for a couple of years, and I have a...
I understand your comment, Mark, assuming it refers to the Control Panel feature. It's this newly appeared icon, "Safely Remove Hardware" in the...
I understand the comments, but what I'd really likw to do is to get the computer to recognise that I did not intend to ever "remove" such basics...
In the tray alongside the date and time display, there's an icon for "safely remove hardware ". Somehow, my computer has got the idea that I want...
Since my original thread was 5 weeks old, I thought it waold have been "put out to pasture ". I apologise for messing up. I'll put the remove...
Follow-up to USB problem (solved!) I though I'd let you guys know that I finally got my USB issue sorted. I treid the suggestions from Matt and...
Matt: I found that the website you pointed to is having significant problems with "excessive bandwitdth use" and has suspended download...
I'm a bit leery of goiong to Bios and resetting it, as my last external save was about 6 weeks ago and I haven't done any specific restore points...
Well, it gets more strange. I got a new IOGear 5-port USB PCI card and installed it in the spare slot. No reaction - computer didn't recognize new...
I'll run XP SP3 for as long as it's supported. My box is 6 years old, so I'll probably junk it and buy a new one with W7 installed, sometime in...
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