TP,

I've got a house full of iPod Nanos and you need iTunes to sync the iPod. That's the main reason that I use it, but I do happen to think that it's very good for organising playlists nonetheless.

The Outlook Express logon box won't go away. All the details are correctly entered but when I click OK the wretched box reappears and so on ad infinitum. I can receive mail but can't send. I've tried re-installing the email account but that doesn't help. The mail account is working fine via BT/Yahoo. I've Googled the problem but nothing seems to come up. Any suggestions from the tech wizards?

hilary,

Thanks for that about iTunes.

I'm getting cleverer with MP now. Just need to find out whether the version 11 can link directly into Napster. As far as I can ascertain V10 did - but not V11.

Not a major problem as the Napster dowload software is fine, but it would be tidier if I could do everything with MMP.

TP

I have a print problem. i use Firefox on windows 2000 pro. My security is avast.

When on Firefox I get message no printer found, but when in Internet Explorer I can print normally - strange, well to me anyway!

My printer is Epson 62 Series and is set as my default printer. have used uninstall reinstall, turnoed security off, etc etc! Grrrr!

Any help appreciated!

Something is making IE7 run veeerrrryyy slowly... I thought I'd tracked it to a
problem I've had with my wireless network but I've disabled all of that and it is still
too slow too work with....

Virus scan shows nothing.

Have reinstalled IE7 but no joy.

All other stuff like Outlook works fine...

Any ideas where I look next?

Some of the anti virus systems slow it up. Macafee especially.

Haystack - No, its worse than that. Not just slow, it literally takes minutes to load
a page.

I ran PC Pitstop and it said everything was just great....

The problem is something interfering with IE7.

Actually, I find if I disable Wireless Network Connection before I load the browser
it seems OK. So, it is definately something to do with wireless....

Have you tried to look at the task manager (ctrl-alt-del) and look at processes. See if there is anything that is using a lot of cpu. you can sort the list into cpu usage by clicking cpu once or twice for ascending or descending. Do it while it is loading a a page slowly.

I forget, do you have a router Greystone? If so try rebooting it since they sometimes get their knickers in a twist.

I'm using a USB Broadband Router (Speedtouch) suppplied by Telefonica

(The wireless router is switched off.)

G.

Ditto to K with regard to rebooting the router. Mine needs doing from time to time.

And you had that telecoms prob last week didn't you. Might be a residual fault.

No techie me, I'm afraid. Just clutching at straws.

Of course you could always try installing Opera, or another browser, as a short term fix.

TP

At work we run word and need to access it several times a day. Our main management software calls a word file to merge various fields and the problem we have is that whichever machine it's on, it takes an absolute age to load. Word is on the individual machines and the merge data comes from the server, which is really another workstation with a bigger HD. Proper hardwired 100Mbs network.

Does anyone know how we can speed up Word's loading? It's an absolute pain.

SC

I used to do a similar thing and had little problem.

Two things occur to me:-

How many users are connected to the workstation/server? Win2K and I think Win XP limit the number of network connections to 10. You could have more than one connection from a single machine. So this has the potential to slow things down significantly.

The other possibility, do you have anti virus installed on each computer? Virus scanning can slow the loading of Word documents so it might be worth excluding known documents from the virus scan.

Do you have enough memory on the machines SC?

One machine has 1Gb, the other has 512Mb. Think I'll put one of the 256 chips back in the 1Gb machine and upgrade the other. There are 4 machines connected to the server, we run XP Pro. Using Avast anti virus, sued to have Norton on the server only but taking Norton off and putting avast on hasn't made any (noticeable difference.

I like the idea of excluding known docs from the virus scan. Will do some research.

Evening folks of great intellect, mine is but a simple problem.....I think. I run the United Devices Cancer Research Program which calls for 100% use of the CPU.
I recently installed SpeedFan which gives me the temperature that the CPU is operating at. When the CPU is fully utilsed the temp is 43/45c, when I disable the UD prog the temp drops to 38/39c. My concern is that the increased temp could be damaging the CPU. Advice please.

SC

I don't think your problem is down to memory, although you're probably at the minimum so upgrading would be a good idea.

You need to ensure that your anti virus is not checking the files twice, once by the server and again by the workstation.

Depending on your software setup, you could exceed the 10 connections limit. keep an eye on the actual number of connections to the server, make sure that the server is set to give more priority to background tasks (Start/Run/sysdm.cpl /Advanced tab/Performance Settings/Advanced tab).

You could do a lot worse than upgrade the Server/Workstation to a server O/S which would also have the advantage of centralising security. If you are only using it as a file server and want to save some money, check out FreeNas.

optomistic

In my experience, 45C is not a very high CPU temp. I have run UD agent for many years 24/7 on several computers at higher temps than yours. I don't think that any rare problems are down to the UD Agent.

Thanks Optimist. Hadn't thought of that (security checking twice)! The server machine is also used as a desktop occasionally but not very much.

I'm not totally Computer literate when it comes to networks / servers, so don't really understand what you mean by "You could do a lot worse than upgrade the Server/Workstation to a server O/S".

I'll ask my network guru, although you guys are probably more knowledgeable :-)

SC

Basically, a workstation has an operating system (eg Win 2K or Win XP) that is designed to run local programs, and a server has an operating system (eg Windows Server 2003) which is designed to serve files and run central programs.

Each can to some extent do the work of the other, but not as well.