Kayak has a point. You should never use general household polishes on screens, plastic cases and so on.

Klear Screen is approved by all the major manufacturers, including Apple, IBM, Palm, Psion and so on. It leaves an anti-static polymer skin on the screen which is protective of touch screens. I use it on my ThinkPad laptops, PDAs, BlackBerrys, phone screens. It's standard in my company for use on all such things.

Bolshi: you may find that it is now supplied as an 'own-label' in other stores. I believe that Sainsbury's carry it under another name at a ludicrous 10 for 100 ml for cleaning TFT TVs.

MM. I ordered online from screenclean as per your post. Excellent service. Next day delivery. Thx for that.
I can now see where I am going wrong :-)

A Win XP pro question, please.

My photographic studio computer has an assortment of USB devices. Some are permanently attached and some, such as CF card readers and external back up hard drives, are only plugged in from time to time.

Is there any way I can fix the drive mapping that these readers and drives acquire so that I can introduce drive letters into the software I use with them. Most times they have been coming up with the same drive letters, but sometime they pick a different one and that makes the program invalid until I re-do the address.

TP

Help!
I've started getting a lot of "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" "Delivery Status Notification (failure)" "Returned mail" etc. emails.
At first I thought it was just spam under a new disguise... But someone said that spammers might be using my mail address to send out spam, and I'm receiving notices about the ones that aren't getting through.
How can I find out what's going on?

I am suffering massive amounts of spam to my e-mail.
As many as 60 a day, usually phishing or floggong viagra (ok I admit I need it).
Anyone any ideas how to stop it??
Thanks,
Alan

The following site is the best site on the Internet for Outlook Express knowledge:

http://www.insideoe.com/

You might get a few pointers there. eg, using key wordsto block spam, etc

Using 'Message Rules' in OE

I have a strange browsing problem. I have a WiFi connection which works fine and has done for some time now. However, I have gained a problem recently. As the browser is paer way through loading a page, I get a dialog box which asks me which connection I would like to use to. The loading stops until I cancel it. It then loads a bit more and the same question is asked again as it has to go to a different address to get something new. For instance this page starts loading then I get a pause when it wants something from camapigns.moneyam.com, another when it wants img.moneyam.com. If I keep cancelling the dialogs then the page loads eventually. It doesn't do it on all web pages.

Peter and Alan,

A few posts ago I mentioned that I use an e:mail system called nPOP on both my PDA and PC. It does not stop spam, but it does allow you to delete it from your mailbox instead of downloading it.

It is not solving your problem but it might make the immediate future more tolerable until someone comes up with the solution I know you both want.

As for Outlook Express, I have never used it as I understand it to be the most easily manipulated system for hacking. In fact only earlier today, on some bulletin board somewhere, I saw a post to the effect that it was almost a waste of effort using virus blockers if you then continued to use OE. Maybe I'm wrong, but I simply report what other seemingly wiser people have told me.

TP

Thanks TP,
I never use OE but this spam issue is getting to be a real pain in the mailbox.

Again, I recommend Eudora as a mail client with its excellent Spam filtering. Now only $19.95 to download.

http://www.eudora.com

Things are changing with Eudora: sadly, Qualcomm have decided to stick with their main business of CDMA cellphone technology in the future, and Eudora will go Open source within a year. That doesn't make it any less attractive for now. and I intend to continue to use it as my Windows email client.

This was the comment about Outlook. It was written by Mike Chaney who developes a bit of software called Qimage for photographers. He said, earlier today:-

"The same people who want their IP address to be "invisible" to the ddisoftware.com server (a reputable software developer) have
signed up for a public discussion group and send messages that can be seen by
everyone on the internet (in the case of Qimage which is a public group). Most
of them use Microsoft Outlook which is the most exploited internet tool available."

Another bit of e:mail software I use is Virtual Access. But the snag with that one is the need to download some of the message to see what is in it.

TP

Any views on Internet Explorer 7 yet?

I find IE7 works well .....

but!

Occasionally get these pages sort of, well, folded over on themselves at the bottom (you can see the last post on top of the panel Add a post to this thread) but a refresh sorts it out. (I don't know if this is MoneyAm, IE7 or my BT/Yahoo browser). Bt/Yahoo tells me it doesn't support IE7 but I found it difficult to delete 7 and re-install 6 so I'm just soldiering on with Beta 7.
Don't know about the security angles.
The new features are pretty good. Not sure why it's still in Beta.

Bolshi - It seems to be out of the Beta Stage and the downloads now describe it as Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1, whatever that means. In view of what you say I think I'll wait a bit yet.

A "Release Candidate" simply means that this might be the last Beta. Unless, of course, something goes wrong . . . But then, that's what "Service Packs" are for!

On the other hand, you could just use Firefox or Opera.

Hmmm?

Just finished watching The Gadget Show, MM? ;-)

Doc: Er, no. What did I miss?

Thanks MM. Better the Devil you know, particularly when you know nothing, as in my case, so I'll stick with IE!

I need to have a blitz on my broadband availability in my apartment this weekend.

Just what is the danger of using an unencrypted WiFi signal? I well understand the problem of others piggybacking and running up costs in the days when we paid by volume of data. But, what can go wrong now?

Why don't I want to continue with my WEP encryption? Because I'll need at least two, if not three WiFi transmitters to get me the coverage I need and I have heard one cannot have the same WEP codes on more than one transmitter. Yes/No ?

TP

Well I was setting up my broadband WiFi recently. I couldn't get it to connect from a notebook. I let the adapter software just find any connection. I thought it was mine. I started surfing the internet and everything was very good. I had a look at the file system and tried to access files on my main PC. I found a shared folder and browsed it. I found the 'my pictures' and a fodler called dad's pictures. The PC used to belong to my deceased father, so I openned some of the picture files. There was a picture of a woman breastfeeding her baby. Other files in the shared area looked like bank statements, CV letters and stock trading details.

I recognised the woman as someone who lives two doors away!!!!!!!!