Optomistic

The first indication is normally that the time is wrong when you first startup and you often get a CMOS checksum error. Most batteries will last 5 to 10 years anything significantly less suggests either a bad battery or a motherboard fault.

Thanks again Optimist, as you may have gathered I don't know too much about the 'bits inside'

Hi all.
Can anyone point me inthe direction of a site for checking broadband speed.
Thanks

Cloudbase:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

Anyone help.
My computers having problems re the following virus.... Trojan horse Generic.WUD
First caused problems when installed software that came with Inovix Ipocket, and appears to have gone onto infect files located in C:/System Volume Information/restore72C2204C-854-4C55F
I run Windows Xp and have the latest downloads.
Also run spybot and AVG free version. It was the AVG that found the virus. Also can not download anything to my IPocket although I could until this virus appeared.
Any ideas how to get this out my system. I cant find any info re this virus.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Greek.

Everyone's using this one these days, principally because of the graphics I think :-)

http://www.speedtest.net/

MM/ Kayak, many thanks

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I want to buy pc anywhere so that I can use my laptop to take control of my pc principally so that I can access my email held in outlook on my pc.

It appears to retail for about 120 according to symantec website.

But there are new boxed products available for between 15 and 20 on ebay.
I cannot see the catch although there must be one. The sellers have very good ratings and have sold in excess of 1000 items. So, can anyone explain what exactly I'll be missing out on by buying from such a source ?

The security of knowing you won't go to prison for using pirated software? ;)

Does the product have a security code in the box? If it is the key to the access then a product from a third party may not be secure. I am not sure how the security is handled.

I've bought products like Norton Internet security from highly rated retailers on ebay and the products have worked fine. Sometimes you get a slightly older version, and they're rarely boxed, but I never think all the latest bells and whistles are always neccessary.

Buying from a highly rated source means you can be reasonably confident they're not using pirated software. Someone, somewhere, would have left negative feedback if they were.

You're usually buying oem versions which were intended for distribution with a new PC but somehow became detached from their link - but they work fine. If it were me, I'd go the ebay route.

cc, take a look at www.logmein.com. It may do what you need and the basic version is free.

cc

"I want to buy pc anywhere so that I can use my laptop to take control of my pc principally so that I can access my email held in outlook on my pc."

If that is all you want to do then why on access Outlook from the laptop and leave the original Email on the server. It is a problem about historic Emails on your PC, but they can be copied across to the laptop as well.

Within the last month sombody recommended Crucial (from America) on here, I can't trace back who It was but would like to ask If anyone has used them.

The price on RAM Is about 50 cheaper compared to buying over here. 2x512.

So the questions are has anyone used them for RAM, how long do they take to deliver (standard). Is the quility as good as Kingston memorey which Is the make of supply over here?

Thanks.

Chuff Chuff Chaser, re the picture the loan pop up. I have found and removed the cookie (took some locating) will see if this will stop it popping up...

Stan, memory is pretty much a commodity these days, and there are only a small number of actual factories producing the chips, all in the Far East I think. I doubt very much that the quality would vary between Crucial and Kingston and certainly not between USA and UK. Personally I would probably look on ebay first as it might well be cheaper and probably exactly the same stuff. Consider ebay US too.

Thanks K, I'll have a look.

Flaw in Adobe

Hi problems installing router :-

I installed the software for voyager 2091 ADSL router and BT voyager 1055 usb 2.0 Adaptor and wired up the router as described however cannot seem to connect to the internet.

Should I have installed the adaptor usb and should I have uninstalled my existing broadband connection, if I don't use the usb do I just use an Ethernet connection. Seemed simple but there you go.