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

kernow, in the bad old days of win98 I used to do a complete reformat and install every 6-12 months. It worked wonders at the time and I keep telling myself I should do the same with my 2 yr old XP system. Maybe it time for you to bite the bullet and go down the same route.

Neil

Does anyone know hot to change the cursor appearance in XP? Thanks.

axdpc

Control Panel/Mouse/Pointers Tab

Thanks :-)

Does anyone want to design me a e-commerce site? I have built a couple of my own but they are far from professional and I am lacking the time to learn correct optimisation techniques.

I need evidence that you know what you are doing or payment upon acceptance.

Anyone interested drop me a line.

Thanks.

Thanks Optimist and Robber. Prevaricating over the re-install though.

I bet you are :-)

Kernow

I'm not sure that a reinstall is the answer but if you do go down that route then buy a new, bigger and faster hard disk, install your new system on that and mount your existing disk as a secondary drive.

That way you will have a faster machine, no loss of dats and keep the old disk for local backups.

The other thing you should be able to do is drop a faster proccessor in.

Kernow

The other thing to remember is that if you are installing Win 2K from an old CD then your initial system will not have the up to date patches.

You MUST use an external firewall to connect to the internet at least until you have bought the system up to date.

Good advice. Still hestitating on a reinstall - I'll probably just buy a new system after Santa's been - this laptop is a bit dated @ 20Gb and 700mhz but is so reliable and pleasant to use (good old Sony) I'll clean it up and keep it for emergencies.