no not getting that anymore -thank god.
Just thought would delete all entries that are in the address bar at the top on IE and disable autoentry so as to give it a spring clean as it were.

zarif: Tools/Internet options/Clear History. That will remove them, not sure you can disable auto-entry as you call it, but try Tools/Internet options/Content/Auto Complete and untick Web Addresses.

Hi All, there are some really bad hijacks arround at the moment coolsearch is one of them, they dont just come from sex sites either. The forum I posted above has a lot of info on dealing with them but some are very very difficult to get rid of.

many thanks everybody -more cleaner than the local launderette.And i have taken my celibacy vows not to hit the Flash quotes button and go for pope next year.

tks
zarif

I have a Toshiba laptop and the hard disk is starting to fail (again).

Does anyone know if I have to fit a Tosh replacement or will any 2.5" drive work?

If they are all standard what is the most reliable make these days?

Optimist, I cant answer exactly but many if not most laptops use standard hard drives however they then fix them into non standard cradles. So you may well be able to change it with another hard drive from another maker, I would take the machine apart and have a look.

Incidentally hard disks are more likely to fail on laptops because they tend to get moved around more as well as being dropped every now and then, the hard drives in laptops try and make allowances for this by being slower! however I know from bitter experience looking after many thousand of them that they still fail fairly often.

Spaceman

Thanks for that info I've had a look and it looks as though it's standard so I've ordered a standard one. I don't know what make it will be but anything has got to be better than Toshiba. My laptop does not have a hard life except for being left on all the time this is the second disk that has failed after less than a years (almost) continuous use.

Do you know of any way to mount a laptop drive in a standard PC in order to copy the disk image to the new disk?

BTW Thanks for your post re Concorde it enabled me to switch on Sky News to see the final take off. Very Sad.

can any one help on how to run 2 monitors of 1 computer, was thinking of trying to link 2 computers to run of my broadband line,but first option would be better.l.l.

Lancslad

Have a read of the WHAT is PARHELIA thread on here.

DocProc, many thanks for the link l.l.

I'm looking to do same, Lancslad... The Dell 18" screens look good value. Broght thread to top..

LL/d2k, 2 computers sharing a broadband link is fine as long as you are not using AOL.

You need a bit of kit to setup but its cheapish and works well.

Hi, spaceman, got a D-Link wireless router and connected my 2 PC's. Its brilliant. No inferior service compered to Ethernet. Had it set up 2 mths. Not one problem. Going for the 2 screens this week. Missed those Dell ones :-((( Out of stock now

thanks spaceman, not useing aol,any one got a second hand router going cheap,l.l.

LL ebuyer do a cheap one called AST-8400 (actually an Origo) this works very well, I have one. See the attached link for more details http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=48449

Spaceman

I would agree with you on that router and it is a very good company to deal with, have bought most of my computer bits from them over the last 18 months...

Tony if you need any help give us a ring!!!!

Mega...

hi

can anyone help. i subscribe to iqcharts - a realtime charting package for US stocks downloaded from www.iqchart.com . This software has been working fine until the other day when i was looking at the charts and i think i accidently hit a key on the keyboard and the the charts disappeared. The problem is that when i now click on the icon and type my username and password i get the message 'you are now viewing real time data' as per usual, but cannot see the charts. i dont know whether its running in the background or wot. ive tried removing the program and re dowloading it. i still cannot see the charts. the username and password are correct because i have it downloaded on my works computer, which works fine.


can anyone help?

spaceman rick many thanks for replys unable to access link though is it correct tony

LL try searching www.ebuyer.co.uk for 'quickfind code' 48449 thats should get it, its a 4 port ADSL modem Router and costs 46.99 inc VAT.

Sarj, its hard to know the answer to this without knowing the package, however I think you may have used some sort of keyboard combination that has minimised or hidden the output windows, I know you have reinstalled but some programs retain user settings even when uninstalled and reinstalled. Is there a Windows option in the menu at the top of the screen that opens? if so does it have an option to cascade or maximise windows?