Hilary, click settings, control panel and there should be an option in there to switch infra red on. It then switches off after a while if it hasn't been used. My dell laptop doesn't do it any more since I reformatted the hard disk and reinstalled Windows, and I can't find out how to reset it. Suspect there's something I missed out reinstalling.

Hope this helps.

SC,

Thanks for your help, but there's nothing that I can see within the Control Panel which refers to Infrared.

Hilary

Try Start Button / Help and Support and do a search for Infrared.

afternoon campers :-)

could some kind person help me please i have my pc hooked up to ntl cable which is 99.99% reliable but bacause it aint 100% reliable i want to know is it possible to have a back up 56k modem on the same pc if so how ?????

thanks for taking time out to answer my problem :-)

Mega...

Mega Bucks

Yes it should be. Install the modem and set up a dial up connection to it. When you want to use it you may have to change your internet connection options (Tools - Internet Options - Connection Tab).

As it is an emergency connection make sure that auto dialing is dissabled.

Hilary, you may have to enable the infrared port in the laptop before Windows will see it. That will be done in the laptop setup. There is either a special button for the setup settings or they will be accessed in the normal way by pressing DEL on boot.

Thanks for your help guys.

I've now managed to get to the root of the problem. My husband tells me that he had to disable the infrared port in the BIOS because he wanted to use the serial port for something and it was conflicting with the infrared port.

He's now disabled the serial port and enabled the infrared port again and it's working fine. Apparently he tried assigning different numbers to each of the ports but they can't both work together for some weird reason.

I want to Install a New Hard Drive.How do I Copy my hard drive onto a new one?

Rick

Not sure if the NTL setup is similar to the USB broadband modem I use, but I also have a dialup modem in the same computer as backup if broadband fails. I then simply change the default connection I want and dialup on my secondary phone line.

In theory therefore it should be very simple and there is no conflict.

Hil - I bet your hubby's in trouble! ;-)

Thanks everyone for all your help will install later and keep you posted :-)

help
I am running xp pro with 2.5 proceser and 1gig ddr400 ram. my problem is when i have 2 level 2 windows open if i try to open a third it opens but the screen opens but with no trades or prices. if i close one of the other ones it starts straight away. Any ideas please

Thinking of increasing the memory on my PC.

Currently use 512MB DDR 400. I believe there was a little suffix after the memory description of 2.5, I think this refers to the "latency" of the memory.

My question is do I have to match this 2.5 figure on the new memory stick, or would any stick of 512MB DDR400 do?

What would be the possible effects of using memeory from different manufacturers etc?

Thanks in advance.

2Abbey, you need 2.5 CAS or better but most will meet that spec, you should be fine to mix different manufacturers so long as it it some or higher spec however check your PC motherboard instructions as some do have limitations on mix and match.

Thanks Spaceman

Anyone Know how to copy files to New Hard drive?

Iain are you trying to copy your entire system to the new hard drive?

If you are then check out programs such as Norton Ghost which I believe will sort you although I have not used it myself.

If you just want to transfer data then you could use Xcopy from the command prompt. I have also used this to transfer an entire system but you have to first make the new disk bootable and then mount both disks as secondary drives on a different system.

Once you have transfered your system keep the old disk in a safe place. You never know when it will come in useful if you get a problem on the new disk. Also, make sure that your new disk uses NTFS file system.

Just switched on spare PC this morning.
Did the initial start up - but end up with a black monitor and the cursor in the top left corner of the monitor.

Any idea what has happened?

Timeliner

What O/S?

WinXP Prof

Timeliner

What do yo mean by the initial startup?

Is it starting to load the O/S or does it stop before that?