Fellow Activians can you help me. I downloaded and installed the new service pack 2 from microsoft, everything was going fine, my computer rbooted after installing and it continued to reboot as soon...
I have just formated my harddisk and loaded Mindows me. I have now lost my colour. (only 16 colours) I do not have a disk for the motherboard what information do I need to look for a driver on the...
I got water in my Logitech MX Cordless Keyboard.. ooops. When i got round to taking the keyboard apart, i finally got down to 2 clear plastic sheets, with dull grey lines on (the circuit, prsumably)....
Stupidly, I fell for an auction on ebay that claimed to be selling Windows XP Professional (apparently brand new) for under ?40. When I received the disc, it turned out to be a copy, of course. I was...
if you were to try to kill somebody you would go to jail for attempted murder right? well why is it that if you were to try to kill yourself , that is not considered attempted murder even though you...
my IE6 window has suddenly started behaving strangely. When I maximise it, it sits a bit low on the screen - i.e. there's a thin strip at the top of the screen which the window doesn't cover, and the...
After disconnecting from the internet I can leave my computer quite happily on desktop, but in the last 3 days after a short time it re-connects again. Does anyone know why this should happen as I...
Anytime I right click on a file and select Properties my PC hangs a little and if Windows Explorer is open it crashes and closes. It's fine if I right click on an entire drive in Explorer (in which...
I've just bought a SB Live! 5.1 Sound card and installed it. Problem is whenever I play a sound, piece of music or any kind of audio, the sound comes out all choppy and jumpy. I've updated the...
When my dad starts up his pc, as everything is loading up, he's getting a sign that pops up. It looks like an underground sign, a white circle with a line through the middle. Through the middle in red...
My printer is connected to USB port of my Win98 machine. How can I pass a print file (created in another computer by redirecting print output to file instead of printer) to the printer? If printer was...
We're living on a small income, and money is getting tighter and tighter. We're finding we have to cut out some of our expenses. Any creative ideas of how to save money here and there? We'll be...