A general question really. I was just about to start a defrag, and my disk defrag page says that it is run every Wednesday at 0100. How is this possible please, since my laptop is not switched on at...
I have the full AVG sysytem, but I have noticed that it is showing that Resident Shield is not working. Why would it have stopped and how can I get it active again please?
Is my CD player on the blink or is it a Windows Media Player fault? Suddenly, it will play original CDs, but not those that I have made up. Up until a couple of days ago, everything was good - now...
My wife takes the above, but we have just noticed a great variation in dose size. For example, the one from Holland and Barrett is a 500mg capsule which should be taken '1 to 6 capsules a day', whilst...
Keep getting a problem where Firefox reports a 'not responing' flag. This seems to happen almost every time I go on line. Let me say at the outset that I am using version 3.6.10 (downloaded yesterday...
Thing of buying one of these for two reasons – added security and increased storage. However – before I do, I wonder if I might get answers to some questions please. There seems to be two...
I was recently on holiday and used a download dongle (T mobile) to access the net. I felt it was really rubbish, and would not really want to use it again - I'd rather look for free wifi connections i...
I have received this message at the foot of an email: 'Thank you for deleting my address and any other address or personal information from this e-mail if you plan to forward it. Thank you also for...
I use Skype to talk to friends in a town 8 mile away - the picture/sound quality is A++. I also talk to family in Canada, but the picture freezes, sound disappears etc. - basically it's cr*p! If my...
I've transferred a lot of music from analogue to computer using the Audacity software. I let the player run and then saved a single Audacity file to later break down into its various tracks. However,...
Friend of mine has the above TV, bought from Curry's 4 or 5 years ago. She only has a dish ariel attached, and therefore only uses Sky. When on BBC1, 2, ITV1 and channel 5, picture is 16-9 size. For...
In terms of electricity usage, does anyone know whether it is worth turning the router off when I know that I will not be using the internet for a few hours (e.g. overnight when in my bed etc.) or is...
The local supermarkets have skips for the recycling of plastic bottles, cardboard, bottles etc. My local council has a doorstep collection of paper, glass and tin. However, the recycling location...
I have now decided to use Mozilla Firefox as my normal browser rather than IE8. It seems to be better and quicker. So, folks, how do I change the default settings so that Mozilla is the 'automatic'...
My son has just bought the above vehicle, but I have a concern because the Engine Management light keeps coming on (for 2-3 minutes) then off for maybe 15 minutes then on again. Spoke to the seller...
A friend gave me a copy of an Excel spreadsheet which has over 150 hyperlinks to files contained within HIS own PC. Of course, these are no good to me and I want to delete the link, but keep the...
I have been uploading to my PC a number of music tracks from analogue to digital format. When I tried to play some of them (about 5-6 out of over 100 transferred) I got the message 'Windows Media...
When I switched on to-day, I got the message that 'C:\PROGRA-1\GOOGLE\GO333C-1\GOE62-1.DLL is either not designed to work on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing again using original media...