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  1. Keyboard refuses to write UK letters!

    Here's a strange one: my daughter bought an XP Acer laptop from Tesco's about two years ago and complained yesterday that it had never written @ when she wanted to but always wrote ".

    I had seen...
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    Blush!

    Quite right, Steve!

    That was the cause of the problem...

    Thanks as ever for your advice.
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    [RESOLVED] IE8 feature missing?

    I am reasonably happy with the full IE8 in general but one thing I do miss is the facility to display the URL contained in a hyperlink on a web page.

    I think in previous versions you ticked a box...
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    So it is! I'll have to watch out and make sure...

    So it is! I'll have to watch out and make sure the little devil doesn't sneak back in again!
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    RESULT!

    Thanks Train! Curiously enough the script debugging buttons were both checked and the display notification button unchecked when I looked!

    I therefore presumed that some gremlin had wormed its...
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    Update

    I have reinstalled Flash again but it doesn't seem to have made any difference in that the other browers all still offer to save the swf file instead of displaying it.

    Interestingly enough though,...
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    Interesting idea, Train! Thanks, but I am a bit...

    Interesting idea, Train! Thanks, but I am a bit chary of doing that just yet because the other browsers don't seem to be loading the site either since I reinstalled Flash. Maybe I'll try that if I...
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    Flash update

    Thanks for that, Fink!

    Actually I already had the most up to date Flash installed but I uninstalled it anyway just to see, then reinstalled it. Unfortunately now I can't access the site in any of...
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    Thanks guys! So it is me being a pillock then...

    Thanks guys! So it is me being a pillock then...
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    Jackson Pillock?

    Hi folks,

    I love to go onto the www.jacksonpollock.org site to produce my own masterpieces, but lately I can only get it to work with Firefox and Google Chrome. IE7 and Firefox simply don't open...
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    Corrupted tables

    Yes, I am sure that's what happened particularly with the chkdisk alert some time before.

    Thanks for the advice, Nick, but the data is just not worth spending a lot of money on. Very sseful tools...
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    Well, sadly PC Inspector was unable to detect a...

    Well, sadly PC Inspector was unable to detect a single partition, folder or file on the dodgy drive although it worked miracles on the healthy one and I was able to retrieve some deleted stuff from...
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    Restoration progs

    Thanks Nick! I'll give that a try today and keep my fingers crossed.
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    Oops!

    Thanks but I should have said data RESCUE programme...
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    [RESOLVED] [XP] Trouble at' mill!

    My C: drive is a modern SATA one but I added an old-ish IDE drive to use for backups.

    Earlier this week I had a warning from XP that it needed to run Chkdsk because one of the drives was playing...
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    That easy, eh?

    Thanks, you genius, you!

    Why didn't I think of that? I must be getting old... :-(
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    [RESOLVED] PowerPoint formats

    Can anyone tell me if it is possible to convert a MS PowerPoint Show file (.pps) back into a normal editable presentation file (.ppt)?

    I run PowerPoint 2000.

    Thanks!
  18. Oh, by the way, I forgot to say that you will...

    Oh, by the way, I forgot to say that you will have to run XP in safe mode to do the renaming because it does not allow you to mess with those files otherwise.

    MsouPlague.dll sounds a very...
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    Outlook problem

    Thanks, Steve, but I am afraid that is not the case.

    It was not bolding at all this morning but now it is after rebooting and I can see bolded dates in the calendar right up until June 2008...
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    Outlook

    Thanks for the suggestion Nick, but I have already tried that once or twice and it seems to make not a whit of difference.

    I think it must just be something in the nature of Outlook itself: it...
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    Outlook 2000 intermittent problem

    Normally when you set up and event such an appointment in the Outlook calendar and set it "show time as busy" the date turns bold in the calendar view to make life a bit easier for you.

    Over the...
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    DLL store

    Can anyone tell me if there is a easy method of collecting all the DLL files on your PC together in one place for easy access when the inevitable happens? DLL Dump is a useful web facility for...
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    Thank you!

    That seems to have done the trick nicely, Elaine! I was very impressed with the new (at least to me) Microsoft help tool too. I must admit that I had never heard of that problem happening before...
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    [Home] STOP c000128

    I had the stop message above this morning followed by a memory dump. The message concerned a missing or corrupt file Sytem32\config\software or its log. I tried rebooting in the last known good...
  25. IDE cable

    Will do - thanks!
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