Kayak and Spaceman,

many thanks,i'll have a look at the sites

steve

Some of you with long memories will remember I had a problem displaying stockwatch and level 2, as well as some other sites. Well, everything is now sorted after various emails with medion but I had to do a complete reinstall of everything to get there!

Thanks to everyone who tried to help :-)

Nearly a month since the last post on here. We must all be a right load of PC experts. :-)

My reason for posting? I wondered if anyone had bought the 19" TFT Monitor from Aldi at 299 recently, and if so, I wanted to ask "Are they any good? If so, could you recommend one?"

I read a bit about them here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?, etc, etc

Following a computer breakdown,I recently had a new computer built by a friend,and installed Symantec Internet Security 2004. Since commission I have been unable to view streaming sharts on MAM. I had 2001 on the old machine and never had this problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Roger.

Try re-installing Java.Cured mine
http://www.java.com/en/download/windows_automatic.jsp

After my recent rebuild, almost everything is working well but I can't get my laptop speakers to work at all so I must have lost the sound driver somewhere along the line.

I am running Windows XP on a Tosh Satellite.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

&lt-------

This might be the driver you require:

support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/windows_servicepacks/win-xp-sp1/sound-xp-613102152forwxpsp1-en.zip

:-)

Greystone

I had that problem with my Tosh laptop you have to download a new soundcard driver from the Toshiba site.

Thanks Optimist, I'll take a look. G.

PS It is so nice and quiet here just now I wonder if it is a good move anyway. ;-)

What's a wild tangent web driver?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=wild+tangent+web+driver

Thanks!
Now, how do I get rid of it?

Chocolat

If you do a Google search for "wild tangent web driver uninstall" it brings up quite a few links but nothing that looks like a one click solution.

It appears that it can sometimes be removed using Add/Remove programs so you should check there first.

Some people regard it as a hijack so it is worth running Spybot S&D to see if it recognises it.

Cheers Optimist - I ran Spybot and that's how I found it - it's been pretty busy since Wednesday, when it appears to have installed itself in the start-up menu. Hmm, it threw up 37 bits of spyware in total...but I've just installed adaware, and it found another 300 of the darlings. Oh, and I tried to zap the wild thing with the add/remove thingy, but it won't budge. :(

Chocolat

It may be that Adaware is detecting a load of cookies which you may not want to remove.

Spybot should tell you the location ond name of the file. If you then run MSConfig (Start Button - Run - type msconfig) you should be able to trace and then dissable the start up command. Reboot the computer and then try to uninstall it.

If this works, you may still have problems with it re-installing itself so keep running Spybot.

Oops, Optimist, I'd already zotzed the lot! But I'll try your tip tomorrow, thanks!

Have posted this on the "premium rate telephone" thread but would appreciate answers here as well. I did this (download Mozilla Firefox) because Internet explorer was going really slowly on Money AM - not on any other sites though!

I've just installed Mozilla Firefox and it's running OK but the stockwatch pages and Level 2 screens both show "additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" and on the blank sectionof the page it says "click here to download plugin". I click it and it says "No suitable plugins were found".

Help!!!

edit - have resolved the slow MAM by clearing out the IE browser.

double edit - now answered by Kyoto excellently on the other thread.

I'm posting the comments I made on the 'premium rate telephone' thread about security/Firefox, as perhaps they may be of some use to those here who haven't read that thread:

I would also suggest that in addition to the use of tools such as Ad-Aware, SpyBot S&D etc., people give serious consideration to switching from IE to Firefox as their browser.

Blocks pop-ups, automatic/stealth "drive-by" downloads (this is probably where your diallers are coming from), ActiveX components etc. The URL address bar is highlighted yellow for secure URLs (small but useful additional security check - avoids missing the small padlock icon/spoofing attempts).

Also offers more advanced features than IE such as tabbed browsing (how can you live without it?) and find/search capabilities.

Signs your PC's under siege, and what you can do

MoneyAM's streaming service is delivered via a Java application. I should have mentioned that Firefox requires Sun Java (i.e. the proper version!) rather than Microsoft's version which IE uses. There are good reasons for this but I'll skip the tedious technical/political reasoning.

I must also add, that - solely due to the way that MoneyAM's(?) streaming application renders fonts (badly) on my WinXP computer, I still use IE6 for this service - and third-party popups/adverts aside, there's limited security risk. I know that MoneyAM's technical providers were looking at the issue a few months back, so perhaps we'll get to the bottom of that one day. I use Firefox for everything else (except when I'm in the office... my global corporate is still fighting the security battles of the late 90s and hasn't even got any anti-spyware protection - shhhh!)

Firefox FAQ

On Windows, Firefox can be used with Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It can not be used with the Microsoft Java VM, as that can only be used with Internet Explorer. Versions of Sun's JRE older than 1.3.0_01 will not work.

Sun Java download

It's possible that when you install Sun Java it will set itself as the default Java implementation on your Windows system. If you don't require this (and it's probably a good idea to keep Microsoft Java working with IE6 just in case), you can:

- go to your Windows Control Panel where you should see a "Java plug-in" icon.
- double-click "Java plug-in"
- go to the "Browser" tab
- uncheck the "Microsoft Internet Explorer" box