And don't forget that Opera is now free and, IMHO, is a very good browser indeed. Its tabs occupy less screen real estate than Firefox. And I do like the way Opera remembers where you were on various sites . . .

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i have an old laser printer HP L4 i want to use on another PC,
could someone please tell me how to burn a copy of the drivers that i have so i can load them on the other PC,
tryed downloading from HP site but dont work,

thanks

steve

MM,

I'd also endorse Opera. I met it in my Psion 5 days as a memory economic browser. And then introduced it to my PC's as Netscape got subsumed in its own size.

My one concern, and this could be because I have not the right plug-ins, is that it does stumble on some interactive sites such as PayPal. I seem to remember that it did not like the Level Two screens supplied by those other guys across the road.

It also needs third party software if you want to introduce your bookmarks from something like IE - but there are pointers within Opera as to what is on offer.

TP

scussy, it should work easily even with the drivers provided with Windows. Are you connecting it via the parallel socket? When you say it doesn't work, what happens?

Scussy, I've an old laserjet 6p which I connected up via the parallel printer port and it was recognised by XP straight away without installing any printer drivers.

when i used it on my PC,win XP picked up the printer and drivers and the printer worked ok,
this is not happening to my DADs pc the only diferance is i am on XP PRO and he has XP HOME,
yes using the parallel socket,i can see the printer in the control panel,it just don't want to print.

steve

Double click on his printer and make sure there's nothing stuck in the print queue - if there is delete it.

I used XP home and it was picked up OK.

Go into printer properties and check that the options have been set ok, particularly the port as LPT1, and that the printer queue isn't paused. Presumably you've checked the printer is actually showing its ready light and not jammed etc...

"I'd also endorse Opera"

Just spotted that they have launched a version for the Pocket PC.

I'm damned if I can get it to load.

TP

nothing in print queue and is not paused,printer set as devault and to port LP1,
printer is switched on and there is no jam, iam scratching my head on this one,

is winamp still the best for sound playing CD's.

thanks

steve

What does it do when you print to it? If it doesn't give an error as such you ought to be able to open the print queue before sending something to it and see it spooling and then printing to it in the queue window. If you can see it printing and the ready light on the printer isn't blinking on and off, then I would say the likely suspects are either a duff cable (or badly inserted at either end) or a duff motherboard.

TP:

I hadn't noticed the Pocket PC version of Opera -- we're doing quite a lot of work on Pocket PC at the moment on another project -- I'll see if I can check out Opera on there.

MM
PS: I'm still using a Psion 5 as my Personal Organiser -- I'm just a sweet old-fashioned thing!

MM,

I'm still using an A5 Desk Diary as my Personal Organiser. At least I can read what it says.

:o)

My wife knows where we are going and what we are doing, so I always ask her.

%-)

MM.

Opera. I cannot even understand how to instal it on my Asus 716.

But having read of all the problems people are having on the Opera support forum I probably should feel grateful.

TP

I am trying to set up a wifi network with USB wifi devices for 2 PCs running W XP Home edition. The network seems OK but the extra PC connected to the host does not get web pages. The device status shows a shared internet connection (ICS) and packets being sent and received to and from the 2PCs and the internet connecftion.

Any ideas?

H: Are you using two machines to a wireless hub or attemptng to cascade one PC from another?

Haystack, I think ICS tries to be a DHCP server, make sure DHCP IP assignment is enabled in the other PC if you're just connecting them together, or if you're using a wireless router disable the DHCP server in the router.

It is just two USB wireless network adaptors with the internet connected one acting as an access point. It is just one PC from another. The slave PC shows the complete network in its status and shows the packets coming and going to and from the three parts (internet, host and slave). Networking is the one area of IT that I have missed. I am amazed that I have got it working this much.