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.

A little off topic, but I am frustrated by the standard "contacts" database that came with my Palm Tungsten E. Have tried agendus but it's simply another way of looking at the same info. Does anyone know of a good contacts type database? I'm looking for multiple categories eg xmas card list, personal contacts, work contacts, sometimes the same record fits both categories.

Might have to write my own :-(

"New worm, Santy.A, using Google to spread
It infects Web servers running a software package called phpBB

DECEMBER 21, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Antivirus companies are warning Internet users about a new, fast-spreading worm that infects Web servers running a popular package of online bulletin board software and uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable servers to infect.
The worm, dubbed Santy.A, uses a vulnerability in a popular free software package called phpBB to spread across the Internet, infecting computer servers that host online bulletin boards and defacing those sites with the words "This site is defaced!!! NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm."

..."

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98453,00.html?source=x73

Just upgraded to a 1Mbps Service, Pipex. My connection icon still shows 10 mbps.Is this right.Its just that it used to show the same speed before the upgrade.Im using a Zoom adsl usb external modem

These are the results of a speed test
Downstream 944 Kbps (118.0 KB/sec) 1019 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 246 Kbps (30.8 KB/sec) 265 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Speed test is excellent. The 10Mbps looks like it relates to your home network. A USB modem wouldn't normally have a green terminal icon in the system tray. If you look amongst your program shortcuts though there is likely to be an ADSL diagnostics or statistics program to give you more info.

Thank Very Much Kayak.
Ps Merry Christmas
Thanks for all your help and others, on here over the year.
Now! Can you be as helpfull with my trading ? ;-)))))

A merry xmas to everybody and especially those who helped me get my new system up and running.