When I fire up my desktop computer (Windows XP} it starts up OK but only as far as the Desktop Screen. I.E there are no Icons on the screen or a Start button in the corner. These only appear after...
Me again - homer - my sister who is old-fashioned - well anyway her video has broke and I am looking to buy her one. The vcr has nearly become extinct as we all know it is dvd but she says she could...
I have a reasonably unusual problem with my wireless router. I am running a pc (laptop with XP) and I have a Netgear WGR614 v7 wireless router (4 port). At various times I wirelessly connect the...
We recently decided to go wireless on Tiscali Broadband and bought a Netear Wireless Modem/Router complete with USB dongle. One of the reasons for this was that although the PC was in the living room,...
Hey all, I was just wondering, I recently bought an external hard drive (memory 500gb). I plugged it into my mac, and that works great. I then proceeded to plug it into my PC, and nothing appeared!...
Virtually every time I switch on my computer , there is a message stating that AVG is downloading something to be installed - thus slowing the computer right down There is always a message saying that...
Can anyone tell me what I have done to my computer I was working on excell this morning I left the computer for a while when I came back it would not let me type anything. And nothing is high lighted...
Can anyone help please, I cannot get the above printer to work when printing from microsoft word. All that happens is that it does all the printing motions but nothing appears on the paper. When I...
I have been trying to connect via wireless to daughters upstairs computer. every time i try the downstairs computer to thi i keep picking up a default signal. i have put in my daughters password, and...
My girlfriends laptop had an issue with the mains input, after some checking i put it down to a dry joint on the PCB. I dismantled the laptop and found the guilty dry joint and repaired it...
Dear good AB'ers .. In MS Word is there an easy way to create a lined sheet A4 ? or is there a template available on the MS Office website ? thanks good AB'ers GL.
Can anyone help? In Word I want to create a series of boxes with text inside, linked by arrows. This I can do. However I also want to put some text outside these boxes, how do I do it without a...
I have a desktop computer which is 6 years old. I have always backed up info on cd-rw, but want to change, but I am not sure what to purchase: 1) Is a flash memory stick the same as a flash memory...
While running a spyware doctor scan I saw the name Zlob flash across. I googled this & found it is listed as a dangerous trojan .However neither spyware doctor, AVG or Windows defender have picked it...
Could anybody help me,i've got space shuttle pc game but a message comes on saying that i need to have flight simulator x installed,so which flight simulator x do i need to buy.will flight simulator...
Hello again very kind and helpful people: I'll be going away soon for a very, very long time and do not want to take my lappy with me because I'll have computer access where I'll be going. However,...