anyone know best on-line shop for ink cartridges?

pat, depends on the but for my canon I pay about 1 per cartridge by buying 10 at a time from ajsmediasupplies on ebay. You can order by phone as well ; 01530 277833

Also HS Direct on 01526 830327

Neil

"KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR"


I recently be plague by viruses on my laptop, and then followed up with blue screens etc..

I appear to clear the system of the viruses and then reloaded 2000, All waswell until I connected to MSN updates. Absolute chaos, M doom virus etc. Blue screens even though I had AV guard reloaded and went to their site for update before assessing MSN. Also had running Troyan blockader.

I have reload etc and switch on an off 1000000000 times etc. Reformated etc.

Loaded 98 which formatted disc FAT 32 system again, as it previously had NTFS Anyway just purchased a router and reformatted the hard disc 2-3 times.

Tried to load w2000 and blue bloo--screen. Blue is not my favourite colour.


But one of the messages I had was "KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR" plus a few others.

I am p. off. Thank god for The Cock at Telford which has Real Ale. I have now left this laptop with a friend to get drunk or drowned.

If I could just have a chat with the originator of my problems I might inform him about his ancestry.

Fred

When you re-load Win2K, you should boot from the CD and let the setup program delete the existing partitions and reformat the disk. You should choose NTFS file system but as you have had problems, do not accept the quick format option.

If that is what you did, then you could have a memory or other hardware problem. Two things you could try, remove the battery and mains power for a few minutes and load your BIOS deffaults but this should be a last resort unless you understand the BIOS settings.

If you connect an unpatched computer to the internet I would expect it to be attacked before you have a chance to update it, but you should be OK behind a router with at least an NAT firewall.

Fred

The other possibility is that your hard drive is on the way out.

If you have access to anotther PC you could mount it on that and test it, you need an adaptor (10 from Maplins). Or you could just buy a new drive. Don't buy from your laptop supplier but get a generic one (around 80 the last time I looked). My only experience is with Toshiba drives (avoid) and Hitachi that seem OK.

fred, I think you probably have something failing in your machine, probably the hard drive. However I would do as Optimist suggests first and completely delete all partitions on the hard disk and reformat it ast NTFS while reinstalling W2K. Then apply all security updates from MS.

Thank you.

I have done the the reformatting etc. Taken it back to 98 reformatted with W2000 as suggested. I checked the hard drive with scan etc. and checked the hardware and checked the Bios.

I have thought of getting another hard disc.

I hope my hardware friend will come up with the solution.

When I first tried to reconnect, before all the serious problems started i was directed to a number of pages including WWW.updatepatch.info. www.fixed-pc.com

Plus a number of other sites. WWW.drunken ????


Anybody know anything of these sites. I am a bit anxious about looking around the network at the moments although I have increased my security and in a moment going to hide this machine behind a Router. If I don't reappear you will realise this machine or I have been terminated.

Fred

I don't know anything about those sites but would suspect that you had some sort of trojan.

Any viruses that you picked up would be unlikely to survice a reformat but if you connect a new unpatched installation directly to the internet you could be re-infected within seconds regardless of which sites you visited. You shouldbe safe behind a router, providing you don't have any other compromised machines pluged into the same router.

Fred

If you still have problems, you could google 'memory test'. There are plenty of utilities that you can download and run from a boot floppy.

Thank you all. Since AM I have been trying to connect up through a router, I have gone grey, haggard, and going bald due to tearing my hair out.

I have been told that I didn't start off being intelligent and now I am convinced that summation of me was right.

Bloody instructions if I had followed them I would have arrived at this point earlier. But the problem is that it is only when you have done the process that the instructions become clear.

Once i thought i new a little about computers, I now realise it was only a little.

I will let you know whether I have dropped the Lap Top and reincarnated it.

Thanks everybody.

Have a nice evening and a prosperous week.

Fred, is it wireless or wired?

It D-link wireless ADSL, but I am connected in at the moment through my Ethernet card, when or if I get my LapTop back I will use the wireless contraption. (Almost said contraception, that is what this computer is beginning to resemble.)

Fred

I know that most D-Link stuff is fairly standard. If you post the model number I will look up the manual and try to talk you through it.

How kind of guys are on this post.

I use MS Outlook for my E_mails and I am having trouble viewing attachments. When I click to open the attachment it tells me that the application can not be found. How do I set up MS Outlook to open these attachments?

I can veiw the attachment if I save the file first.

Your help would be appreciated

Paul

Paul

My guess would be that it is something to do with MS security settings some of which are difficult if not impossible to override.

What version of Outlook are you using and which Office service packs are installed?

Edit
Do you have the problem with all or just some types of attachment?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829982

Cannot open attachments in Microsoft Outlook

SUMMARY
Microsoft Outlook includes a feature that blocks attachments that are considered unsafe. If you receive an e-mail message that contains an attachment that contains one of the file types that are considered unsafe, you may receive the following message:
Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: [...]
Although Outlook blocks access to the attachment, the attachment still exists in the e-mail message.

This article discusses the methods to use if you have to open an attachment that has been blocked in Outlook.


Hope that helps ;-)

paul1812, this sounds more like a badly installed application since it is looking for the application but not finding it. What extension are you trying to open and what application comes up by clicking on the name? Suggest you reinstall it. Otherwise you might be able to change the registry information if you know how.

Optimist, Brianboru and Kyak Many thanks for you prompt reply. Reinstalled my photo aplications and all is well

Thanks

Paul

Thanks-robber