Out of interest, Hils, and you are probably insured anyway, what's an op' like that cost?

Of course, there are other costs too other than the surgeon's bill, but I got to turning the question round, having watched the animation, and wondered what I would want to charge out for doing, and being able to do, operations like that.

About £5.5k, Doc, but I'm not covered and my husband doesn't know that he's paying yet.

:o)

That's just about 1 yr's IT Fees for the household + side perks. So you're worth it, I'm sure.

:-)

For all you whimps still scared to use :-

Windows XP users face end to Microsoft support

I don't think most machines with XP on them will run 7 or 8, so it's not just a matter of upgrading the software. Can't decide whether to buy a PC, Laptop or tablet, but think PC is my preferred option.

Join the government harry..... they're still on XP, along with 50% of the country, skinny got nothing else to spend his dosh on.......clever clogs.,.

I've just spent the last hour trying to disable Avast, which had gone rogue after a recent update.

It was taking 100% of the CPU on bootup and ignoring all attempts to disable it.

After many restarts I finally managed to uninstall it.

Anyone else had a similar experience recently?

I did have that problem quite a few months ago and had to uninstall Avast. However you need to go into Program Files and manually remove the few remaining files otherwise it seems to resurrect itself at a later date! I use Microsoft Essentials now on both machines as have had problems with both Avast & AVG. Also tried Avast on mobile but it slowed everything down so much that I uninstalled it.

Harry - I've reinstated essentials and run a full scan - it found PWS:HTML/Phish.gw !

I run Avast on my mobile with no obvious detrimental effects.

Thanks for the heads up - I'll check for residual files.

Skinny, I would run a scan with the freebie version of Malwarebytes. I've lost count of the number of times it's helped me restore friends/neighbour's machines back to sanity after some severe infection.

Thanks Klal - running it now!

Skinny, I use IObit Systemcare in conjunction with Malwarebytes (paid realtime version) and am very pleased with them. Systemcare comes with a very good uninstaller that removes all the bits.

Thanks Plateman.

Malwarebytes found 11 items, which I've quarantined for now.

best to keep off those dodgy site skinners.,.

I don't do any of that BB.

I read that as "doggie" :-)

lol........or that!!

One of the most important things to be careful about, is what boxes you allow to remain ticked when you do a Download.

I'm an advocate of using ADWCleaner to keep my browsers healthy. And if you download it to try it out, then just like anything else, watch what boxes you leave ticked in the download process

Galaxy S5: Expert views on Samsung's latest smartphone

most people wanting a premium phone already own one

Still happily using my Galaxy S2. I'll probably change eventually but in no rush.

Hi guys,

Looking for a new laptop mid-range £500-£700. Have a Acer aspire 5738pg for last
four years without problems so looking in that direction again but any suggestions
greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance