dabler

It looks like it is using 128Mb for graphics memory. This is not uncommon when you have an integral graphics system on the mother board and not a separate graphics card. It just takes it when fully booted up.

Dabbler

Some computers will only accept identical memory upgrades. ie 2 x 256 , but not your config. Give Crucial, the memory people a buzz, and they may be able to give you more definitive answer.

Dabbler

See posts 4274-4278 above

Hi Haystack,
Thanks for getting back, I see what you saying but I do have a seperate grahics card Riva tnt which has 32mb (not much by todays standards i suppose) But I assume that the memory stick is ok as it's there on startup?

Was the graphics card added later. I added one to a PC and it still was taking the memory for its onboard systems as well.

No, I added a soundcard, graphics card etc when i changed the motherboard to a gigabyte one. It doesn't really matter as i still have 384mb, just curious why the difference and wondered if the memory was US or is still ok. I do thank you for your comments though much appreciated

Are you sure that the motherboard doesn't alsohave its own integral graphics. If it does and is taking memory then you can turn the memory grabbing off.

Help required please,when i send a email from outlook express on my pc,i get a email back about a minute later say saying(delivery to the following recipients failed)
zapmango@hotmail.com ,but i am not sending anything to that email address the emails are getting through because i have tried it to another of my emails but i still get the same message.
I have norton antivirus switched on and spybot and spyware blaster installed,does this mean anything like a trojan or someone has taken over my email ???

Thanks

Mega...

Problem sorted,the host website had a virus on it and all peoples emails had problems

Still cant get streaming when I have Trend Micro PCillen Internet security 2006 running.
Ive tried turning off each individual component without luck. When activated it also blocks Market Maker for a moment but that re-connects. Ive also entered the streaming web address in allowed sites
Any ideas?

Back again! Sorry :-(

a) Installed office on to a new laptop, set up MS outlook with a few accounts. Now when I try and send emails it doesn't give me an option from which email to send it from? Any ideas?

b) I have a couple of hard drives, one without a computer (my fantasy of smashing a laptop against a wall was realsied) and one with (but without any usb ports (they have all broken). Any ideas how I can get the data from these onto my new laptop? Last time I just bought the same model as the hard drive so it would fit :-)

Cheers.

Mr Euro
When you hit create message, doesn't the Email skeleton come up with a list box in the 'from' part?

Hi Haystack,

No. It used to but I think that was outlook express and this is MS outlook (don't know what the difference is or why express isn't on this machine).

In fact after a coupel of tests, whichever account I reply to a message from (i.e. I have 3 set up and sent a mail to all 3 (individually)) it always replies from the same account.

will try and set up outlook express and see if it works.

Outlook express should be on there. I usuallyuse Express. I have started to use Mozilla Thunderbird. The interface is almost the same and the functionality is the same if not more than OE and I have less problems with it. It has good spam filters as well.

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Thx. Works fine with express!

Thats the first solution!

wrt your second problem, do you have access to the insides of either the laptop or another working computer?
If so, check that the working laptop/pc has a spare ide connection. Set the jumper on your removed harddrive to 'slave' (instructions here: http://www.ehow.com/how_6031_change-master/slave-designation.html) and connect the drive up with ide and power cables.
When starting up your laptop/pc check that the bios recognises the new drive, and you should be able to access any data on the drive once windows boots up.

I have just re-installed (for the ????th) time XP Home on my wife's PC - however I can't activate it as this has been done too many times already. I have just rung the microsoft number to get activation, but that was a waste of time. Apparently there should be, (but ain't), an identification number on the "activate windows by phone" screen - so I can't get any further on that.
Anyone help with any suggestions as to how I can get it activated?

Thanks in advance

I cannot create a sub folder called 'sys' in Windows XP, it won't let me.

The reason that I am trying to do this, is because I have some software on a CD that won't install. It says it can't find a file called something.ini which is in a sub-directory called 'sys'.

The strange thing is that when I view the CD, I find that the directory sys is not there. I can see it on two other PCs and install the software there. I looked on my PC and I have no files or directories called sys anywhere in the file system. That is why I tried to create a sub-directory called 'sys' which failed.

Any ideas?

ChuffChuffChaser

After checking your query out at http://www.saynoto0870.com/companysearch.php I determined the following:-

Microsoft: Software Product Activation Line

Freephone: 0800 0188354
Alternatively: 0870 241963

Try a download of PCWizard from http://www.cpuid.org

This program will astound you with what it can reveal about 'secret information', eg, Program Product codes, Passwords, Hidden Passwords, etc, etc. on your machine. Actually, thinking about it, you'll need to have the machine up and running before you can do this download. Back to the drawing board then, eh?

Meanwhile, the 'puzzle solver' in me also found this:

Check out the 3rd one down