SEYMOUR CLEARLY.
My TIME experiences.
I bought a Time Computer in May 2002 at the Southport shop[now closed]
The computer came ok but what followed was a disaster.
In May 2003 the computer would not start.
I checked everything and tried to put a disk in the floppy drive, I notice the drive had fallen from its mountings.
Maybe that was the reason it would not start. I caught the bus took the computer brain box with me very heavy I am 68years old, could not do anything at the shop.
Come back on Friday was the reply 'We have an expert coming in on Friday who will solve the problem'
Not being a chap who gives up, I took it in 3 more times and having an almighty row from me to the the computer guyin the shop.Eventually he managed to get it started fixed the floppy drive.
I eventually returned home,next morning it would not start again- phoned up Time.
I have 3 year warranty waited some 20 minutes managing to get through.
Time took it away more trouble waiting all day not coming, more expense, phoning them ,waiting in another day .At last success.The computer returned they had put in a new mother board in.I then decided to buy another computer from Dell this time.The Dell works fine.
My grandson came often to play just a Football game on the Time Computer.
Then 5 week ago the computer just crashed .I put in the recovery disc .The message i got this was the wrong disc.
Eventually I managed to get it working with a windows 98 disc I had, but I did not know what my sound card was graphics card etc.
I managed to get through to them the guy give me details of drivers I needed to get to back to squareone.
The software disk they gave me was incorrect and did not recognise anything to my computer.I tried with the Dell computer to find the available software to no avail.
This week I phoned again to Time a chap from India, he told me I had the wrong disks.They agreed to take it away.
Ii must point out that they have a support web address to download drivers, but the models they have on display are none of mine.
I have sent them 5 or 6 emails to complain they have not replied to one or will phoned me up.

Is there some way that you can change the font size of a web page for general viewing? I've just hooked up a new screen and the text on the thread list, for example, looks a bit kind of clunky ?!? if you know what I mean. I've tried VIEW - TEXT SIZE - SMALLEST but that doesn't seem to make an appreciable difference.

I'm sure there was a way that involved using the scroll wheel on the mouse when Kayak answered this question for me last time I got a new screen!

Thanks chaps

Robb
Why not try firefox web browser

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Robb

Try Tools/Internet Options/General Tab, click Accesibility.. button and check Ignore Font sizes .......

You should then be able to change the font size using View-Text size or by Ctrl/Mousewheel.

The downside is that you will have to do this on many websites that are currently OK.

Problem with Firefox browser is that there is no mousewheel support for Java appletts.

Hold down the ctrl key and use the scroll wheel Robb, but that is the same as using View/Text Size. Unfortunately it only works where websites use standard HTML text sizes rather than specifying a particular point size. Only other thing you can do is to use Tools/Internet Options/General tab/Accessibility and Ignore Font Sizes but that will probably make a mess of other websites if not that one.

However has the new display been correctly named in Control Panel/System/Monirors and have you set the right resolution, one of the native ones if it's a flat panel?

Optimist

u da man :-)

cheers

Arly Barley - interesting & doesn't surprise me. I've never had a Time PC - heard too many stories to make me even consider it. But Joe Punter in the street does and sees a good deal. That's how they do it. 3 year warranty? Yes please! You'll never need to worry Sir!

It's not just the PC industry. There is poor service everywhere if you know where to look.

Kayak - thanks.

Saw an interesting web page regarding computers:-

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php?page=formamdindex

That looks a nice site. I just priced a standard Intel PC at 370 + vat but you could save at least 50 buy buying the (7) components and assembling yourself.

Can anyone please recommend a reasonably-priced sound card for XP Home, so that a Roland keyboard can be plugged in? The intention is also to download software in conjunction with this. (Y'know me...what do I know..)

re Installing Two 512 memory cards.
This is the make of my Motherboard(I think)
Will it be able to take it?


Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-8SG800 1.x
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F4 01/13/2003

Iain

Yes! See http://www.memoryx.net/gigamome145.html

Thanks Optimist

anybody with a moment - My Dell help is asking me to update my Sun Java , been to site but cannot see exactly which bit I should be taking and since crucial do not want to make a bo bo , can anybody tell me exactly what I should be downloading? thanks

Maddoctor

Check out this thread. http://www.moneyam.com/TradersRoom/ShowPostList?fID=1&tID=2847

The one you want is J2SE v 1.4.2_06 JRE

Optimist , thanks

My PC seems to be running a little slow. I've defragged, disc clean up and do uninstall garbage regularly but I guess junk builds up. Do any of the many so called tune up programmes work? Any of you well informed people care to make a recommendation. I've MS 2000 and 384 ram.

Kernow

I would be very wary of tune up programs. Some of them may be OK but others will do little or nothing or worst of all encourage you to change things that you should not touch.

If you want to speed your computer up then adding memory may help although 384 MB is not bad. Keep an eye on your proccessor and memory usage in task manager and see if you can identify anything that is using memory or CPU.

The slowdown could by caused by a virus or trojan so do a virus scan and Spybot S&D both in safe mode.

If you want to make the menus faster Change the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay from 400 to 50