Dil,

I used something called Yrefresher.

Can't remember where I found it, but I'm sure Google can.

TP

See Kayak's post no. 3999 back up this thread.

Doc,remind me to go to Specsavers :-)

No No No.... :-)

Yes Yes Yes....SC will do those thingys for you over the weekend,been a bit busy !!!

Thanks - no rush - will be in touch over the w/e anyway about something else.

optomistic

re: stuck CD unit.

Start up the file explorer. Right click on the drive and there should be an 'eject' choice. Click it and the drawer should open.

I am looking for a set of blue tooth headphones to plug into a 1/4 jackplug,any ideas someone please,so i can plug them into my metal detector and do away with cables ???

Mega...

Sorted,just purchased a set from Ebay at just under half price,well pleased :-)

just having to renew my Norton antivirus which was preinstalled on my dell before delivery and the renewal centre is asking for "Type the subscription key for the selected subscription service" - cannot find out what this means , can anybody help?

MD Did you get backup discs with it? With Norton it is usually on a yellow label on the CD packet. Either that or the renewal centre will have sent you a code to enter.

Having said that, why don't you uninstall the heavyweight Norton and use something like free AVG antivirus from

AVG antivirus

I use Norton Internet security on my laptop and AVG on my desktop and much prefer AVG - it uses far less resources, updates really quickly (but set your update time to a time of day when less people are likely to be updating - mine is set for 7 am) and has caught everything nasty anyone has ever sent me.

Seymour , have got the packet but cannot see a subscription key number and Symantec did not send me one.

Are there any number on the packet - and m,ore to the point have you paid?

seymour . on the disk there are no numbers and yes paid for 15 months which is ending and got renewal notice from Symantec - bit of a puzzle but have found a phone number to ring

That's the best approach then I think. When you paid 15 months ago did you get any emails? That's the only place you might find the sub key.

seymour , no e-mails , back checked but never registered with them - is that the problem?

If you've been getting service for 15 months then you should be registered. Thinking back I remember once updating Norton and I think I was given a number which I had to write down but wasn't sent to me by email or in any other way. You get an option to re-download at any time but if your machine crashes then without the reference number you can't get a machine with the Norton you paid for.

MD,

If you cannot continue with Norton at no extra cost I'd also recommend junking it.

My choice is PC-Cillin.

http://support.antivirus.co.uk/trendmicro/regions.jsp

Have it at home and in the office.

In the office it certainly stopped a recent nasty that some twerp downloaded and released on our company network - putting us without computers for half a day whilst our IT chappie fumigated everyone. Moi, I came out with medals as almost the only clean machine in the building!

What I also don't like about Norton is the way it dumps files it does not like into directories that you can never get rid of - thus fooling any subsequent virus checker like F-Prot into thinking you are still infected.

TP

pub , going to ring Symantec later and see what they have to say - thanks for input

I use the Windows XP Firewall and do regular sweeps with Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. For my main e-mail, download and surfing protection I use the Firewall and AntiVirus Protection from BT's NetProtect and find them quite convenient. The cost for these latter two as a package is 3.50 pm = 42 pa. There is telephone help if required, which I have never needed and it is never really out-of-date. I set it to update regularly every other day or so and to automatically run a check my machine every day 'in the middle of the night'.

Check out these at http://www.btnetprotect.co.uk/howitworks.html

I've just been looking at a Review of BT's NetProtect on another web site, which says the following about what I'm using:-

If you're not looking for a unified suite, you could get equally good software free think ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com) or Sygate Personal Firewall (http://smb.sygate.com) for firewalls, and AVG Anti-Virus (www.grisoft.com) or Avast (www.avast.com) on the virus protection side, and you've more or less replicated what you get with NetProtect without paying a bean.

Interesting!!! Hmmm?

md

You will get a new subscription key on renewing Norton.

I have a dell machine which also came with an intro period for Norton Antivirus. When this period expired I decided to ditch it and have since been using the AVG without any problems.