Video and chipset drivers updated via Dell Support site. Driver acceleration returned to 'Full'. I'll report on the situation in a few days...
Ok then. I'll do that straight away. Thanks. By the way, reducing the hardware accelleration as suggested by tashman847 (above) may have...
I've followed Tom's (tashman847) suggestion above and, lo and behold, I was able to drag that icon out of the folder without any freezing. I...
Well, I've given it more than a few days but the problem has returned. I've installed Rambooster in the hope that a possible memory leak might be...
Thanks for that, Tom. I'll check it out. However, this evening I changed my desktop background and found that my problem disappeared. I'll...
Could you tell me the route to accessing advanced graphics properties, please?
Yes, I've checked that and 'Enable Dragging and Dropping' under the 'Start Menu' items is checked.
Ok. I've created a new account. The new account when logged into has almost nothing on the desktop. My programs list is drastically reduced...
So, if I create a new account should I delete the 'Tom' account? I'm unfamiliar with the consequences or benefits of doing either so I'm looking...
There are two profiles: Administrator (me): 4.50mb Tom (me): 2.26mb
I have 44gb free space on my 149gb boot drive which is 29%. So far so good.
I have ten folders on my desktop with an average of ten items in each of them. One has thirty-six in it. Overall I have twenty seven icons on...
In the past month or two, when I drag a desktop shortcut into a desktop folder for tidiness sake I find that it freezes over the folder and won't...
Thanks very much, Evan. You solved my problem! :D
When I open Program Monitor with ctl+alt+del it only has 'Task' and 'Status' at the top. There's no mention of 'Processes', etc. Where have they...
Thank you, Steve. :)
I've noticed on my list of startup items that 'ccapp.exe' is amongst them. This item is a necessary part of Norton antivirus which scans emails,...
Thanks for that, Arie. :)
Thanks, Neil. I'm just wondering if I disable 'Automatically Detect Settings from Internet Explorer' will there be any negative effects? I...
When I do a 'start>search' my firewall pops up this message: 'Windows Explorer' from your computer wants to connect to sc.windows.com...
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