Ian and Spaceman - I've done a Google search and found the error message on the Java forum. The recommendation was to attack the Java Plug-in on the Control Panel. I've had a look there and clicked on an Apply and a Reset and we seem to be up and running again. Many thanks to you both for your help. I also did a Regsitry Mechanic check which turned up with 14 faults but none of them seemed to be Java related. It all probably arose when I was freeing up some disc space yesterday and uninstalled some unwanted programmes.

Edited: Only 14 faults, thank goodness. 114 was my typo.

Kevin,

Glad to se it is sorted.

Ian

Seymour

MAx 20 days to replace.

Not sure you mean it was bought only a short time ago. But if the goods were sold to you and is not functional you can return to vendor and ask for replacement or repair for upto at least 6mths and I think even longer. It has to be of "merchandisable" quality.

Cheers guys sorted now
M

SC, thanks for your comments.

Can somebody help me (again!) please. How can I take a screen shot?

Thanks.

Mr Euro. press print screen and then use edit paste to put it into a document or email.

PrintScreen does the whole screen
Shift/Printscreen does the current window

Thanks :-)

Mr E , you having trouble with your aol thingy again ?


:-)

No :-)

lol

Thought I'd just update this thread re my questions about the W2k operating system of 100 posts or so ago.

Anyway, my husband has now installed W2k on the children's computers and all is fine. However, I asked the question as to whether a copy of W2k which had originally been supplied with a new Dell (there are lots of them for sale on E-Bay!) would work on any brand of PC and the concensus was that it would. Apparently (and I can't verify this), MS operating systems supplied new with Dell PC's actually check the BIOS to confirm that the machine is a Dell before proceeding with the installation and will not work on other brand machines. From what I can work out, the opposite is not necessarily the case with software originally supplied with other brands of machine.

Thanks Hilary, good to know :-)

Hi all

Hopefully someone can help. every now and again ( a couple of times each day ) my computer plays a sound like a creaking or trap door opening. there is no associated program - im wondering whether it is a virus?

Has anyone else had or heard of this - any ideas gratefully received!

fundementalist, I have not heard of a creaking virus but that does not mean there isnt one! Have you checekf for virus's (viri?) in your PC? Are you sure its not an application? What Operating system are you using?

Fundamentalist, it's probably just an advertisement displayed on one of the pages you have open. Some of the more annoying ones have sound :-)

Thanks guys

run a virus check using norton and nothing came up. im on windows XP. the only pages open are this and ig index - if i close them and open up diff pages same thing happens!

kayak, what are advertisments ??

Fundamentalist, is it a standard XP sound?, I dont use XP so I dont know them. Have you worked out when you get the sound??

yes its standard. i always have the sound on and have had no probs in the past - the sound comes on a completely random basis

F, have you got adaware and/or (preferably both) installed? if so run them and see if its ad related, if not download them update the files and run them.