I understand that you know your place and will get on with the house work instead. Then again you could say sod that I am going to close them down and see what happens. Worse case is you reboot :)

Sod that was definitely the case, M. *If in doubt, go and have a soak* is what I said. Now I'm going to close *them* down (if only I knew what I was doing..) ;)

I have a Sony Vaio laptop about two years old it has developed a fault
where the fan is running all the time anybodys help appreciaed .

Midaz, don't know if this will help, but my Dell laptop did the same, then I got a virus and had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows (98), and since then it's run well, fan only coming on when it gets really hot. Don't know why this worked though!!

Looking on the bright side, an achievement of 3% is 50% more than I managed last time.. :) The only programmes left running were Eboard, Gsicon, Loadqm, Wkcalrem, Systray and Dslagent. Explorer was an obstinate little bugger - it kept invoking me to shut down...

Weyhey! It finally took off...all done and dusted now (but no flowers on t'table as yet)

Thanks Doc and M :))

:)

Midaz
Blow the fan out with a compressed air cleaner. Normally works
D.

cheers Croc sounds logical I'll give it a go .

dotel

:-)

Need any help whilst you're in the bath? I've always been willing to lather up a lady.

I've been getting Spam mail from myself recently -- cheeky enough to spoof my address as the sender but it does add insult to injury when you appear to have sent an "member enlargement" mail to yourself!

I know what you mean, MM (not!) I've been spammed over the last month or so as well..

Doc - what can I say - think I need another straight away...didn't get enough lather up last time :)


PS I can feel another defrag coming on..

Hi folks.Got a problem with a trojan horse that has invaded my home computer and replaces my homepage with a nasty porn site.It is
mk@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\start.chm:/start.html.
Anybody know how to get rid of it.I have AntiVir installed but have received an email from aon.com telling me that a file called
your_product.pif
is uncleanable.The virus is WORM_NETSKY.D
Any ideas?

Tony, don't know whether it's this simple, but have you tried Tools, Internet options, General where you can set up your home page.

Don't know about the virus but I use Norton Internet Security which cleans up - you can get some very cheap copies on e-bay, some are 2003 which is the one I use, it seems to update to the current version as well.

edit, have a look at

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky.d@mm.html

Tells you all about it, and how to get rid of it I believe.

Seymour,thanks,but its not that simple.When I correct it and close computer,its back again when the computer is opened,it attacks your start programme I think,hence the html.

Tony, have a look at my edited post above, there is a way using Symantec's instructions, but it looks tricky to me.

I have a little problem - I've just bought myself a Palm Tungsten PDA (don't know how I lived without it now having only had it a week!).

When I synchronise the PC with the Palm I get a message saying

"The setup on the handheld could not be updated because the PC does not have a hostname or IP address."

How do I give my PC a hostname?

Thanks,Seymour,I've used symantec before with excellent results.Will check it out.

Seymour Clearly
I found this on the web not sure if it will help
M

"Click on the hotsync icon in the system tray (by the clock on your PC desktop). Then uncheck network."

Thanks M, will try it out.

Edit, worked a treat! Thanks Martini.

Why don't they put this stuff in the manual! (Maybe they did and I missed it).