Also Jennifer, I'd comletely uninstall AVG before re-installing - but you were going to do that anyway weren't you? :-)

Thank you SC and Optimist. Uninstalled everything in sight and
now up and running :-) Brilliant!

Does anyone here know anything about Sage accounting software?
Had a powercut at work last week, and not been able to access it since.
A message comes up saying that the programme is already in use (something like that).

Choccie: We use Sage too, I'll ask about when I get into the office. Just a suggestion: bizarre though it may seem, have you tried Sage's support?

I knew you'd say that, Dezza.
We have it for the payroll, but not for that, as it doesn't normally go wrong.
They have us over a barrel as it is with all their updatey things - forever trying to scare me into buying stuff we don't need. I did suggest to our lady who comes in once a week to enter all the gubbins - I never touch it :S - that she might ring up the payroll support people, as it could just as well have happened had she had that programme open.
But thanks, I'd be ever so grateful if you come up with a solution before Wednesday :)

Choccy, bit of a stable door and horses bolting theme here, but UPS boxes are cheap these days. APC ones do a proper system shutdown if the power doesn't come back on in time.

This is what I have choccy, very good value for the money. Lasts about 20 mins on a 400W load and most importantly does an orderly shutdown when it knows it's about to run out of battery.

Belkin 1200VA UPS

Thank you very much fellas :)
Now all I need to do is get the programme back :S

Sorry to be thick, K - but will that one be as effective with a master and 3 slaves?

I can see you with three slaves, choccy, not sure about the master...

&ltpinch&gt

OK if what you mean is that you have four computers then no, it wouldn't be enough to power them all. However I would have thought that the master would have the database and protecting that would probably be enough for you to avoid corruption.

That's all we do - protect the server.

I've just been asked if it possible to run a windows 95 game "RISK" under windows xp - any ideas?

On edit:- found some sites!

Any of you clever people know how much usable space is on a 1gb SD card. I know 1024mb is the nominal figure. How much is lost to formating info? I have sat nav maps @956mb to load. Should they fit?

TIA

While there is no absolute answer regarding capacity, the best we can do is give approximations of how much data can be stored. Although its advertised as a 1GB memory stick, only 949 MB of it is usable from the start, due to system overhead.

Sandisk 1Gb review

Very many thanks SC.

Careful kernow, because sometimes (particularly in the hard disk world) a MB is made to mean 1,000,000 bytes rather than 1024x1024, same for a GB. Makes the specs look bigger! Just bought a 150GB disk for instance that is 150,000,000,000 bytes or not quite 140 proper GBs.

Thanks Guys. Hindsight is wonderful. Unfortunately I'd already bought this card and have had to be selctive in the maps to download so as to fit them on. At 0.99p plus a free usb card reader, the card was a bargain but other readers should note the latest Tom Tom maps will not all fit. Mind you I rarely visit Scandanavia and Spain in the same day lol.

I'm looking for somewhere to host our non-complicated business website. Does anyone have any experiences positive or negative?

I've looked at Microsoft Office Live basic which is free. Can't use html with it, and once you go beyond this it starts getting expensive (from 11.95 a month!). I think it may well prove better to have someone host it here in blighty.

How good are the cheap hosts?

Please Help.
I put Vista onto my new Dell laptop yesterday. The laptop was Vista compatible.
Every web site is working fine except one. It is a competitor to this site so don't wish to name it.
This site will not fully load, and takes over 15 mins even to partially load it. It then comes to a grinding halt.
Can't understand why it is only this one site that has problems.
I know it is not the site itself as I can open it OK on my desk top PC with XP.
Thanks in advance Greek.

SC,
I built a site and had it hosted by webeden.com
I am the most computer illiterate person I know and it was simple and cheap. I have had no issues with hosting or reliability and can recommend it, though if you want traffic generating by the host, you could probably do a lot better. This was never an issue for us though cos its primary function was for staff to use to submit business.
Have a look if you like by clicking on the house symbol next to my name.
Alan

Thanks Alan, will look.

Edit, just looked. Nice clean, fast site.