Doc

I don't think that this problem would be solved with CCleaner. I had the problem on a brand new Vista box.

Doc, I can save images from the web. The scanner doesn't seem to have any other options for image type - probably because it's such a cheap one. Tempted to throw it out and start again but I think that's wasteful!

Will contact Epson online support and see if they have a fix. Thanks for trying.

Thanks guys and guyesses - looks as if it is a flash problem - but when I went outside and flashed a little old lady who was passing she called the police so I've got to go to court next Tuesday. Do you think the Magistrate knows the answer and that's how you I'll solve flash problem?

Any other suggestions 'cos I don't fancy having to do that every time I need to fix IE7 - Bill Gates never mentioned anything about spending long periods in court - or maybe that's why the EU are making him pay them shedloads of money :)

Call Bill Gates for the defence I say.

Doc
Where did you get the CCTV footage from ?:(

I'd say that was a result, meggers ;)

Thanks for the tip, Optimist.

Not that I know anything about IE7 (nor about flashing) but you could try checking you have the latest Flash player.

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

Thanks Kayak. Have downloaded the latest Flash dancer to see if it makes a difference. Still have to go to court next week - chocciepops is next up in front of the beak after me. Apparently she went round the shops in Wilmslow asking all the blokes if they could come back to hers to flash her new PC. A gay guy from Alderley Edge took umbridge and went running for the fuzz - apparently he plays for Manchester United and has never heard the like of it :)

Choccie's been hanging around the shops in Wilmslow ever since the Safeway was taken over by Waitrose. More her style.

my AVg pro has just picked up - worm/delf.EYR

any body know what it is and where it might have come from?

Maddoctor,

Put worm/delf.EYR into google it will bring up a site that will give you info. McAfee states it is a trusted site. Its a delf removal site, its free but if you don't want to use it to remove at least it will tell you about the worm.
If ever I find a virus/worm google usually helps, as I am not very computer literate to say the least.

Anyone help.

I have used a laptop with a router for several months with no prob, until my wife also bought a laptop. Now it's OK if I go onto the internet first, but if my wife goes on before I do, mine often states internet unavailable. We both have to shut down and then I have to connect first. If I connect first, my wife can connect without a problem. Strange or what.

greekman, in Connection Properties for the local area connection check under Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) that it says Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, on both laptops.

If that doesn't work, tell us the model of the router and whether you're connecting the laptops to it by wire or wireless.

Greekman

Open a command prompt, type "ipconfig /all" (without the quotes) followed by Enter.

What does this return?

Kayak/Optimist,

Thanks to both. Will give it a try and let you know.

Wanting to buy an external hard drive for backup, but the one thing that I don't know is: can one drive back up several (2/3) machines? No indication that the s/w can do this with the HDs I'm looking at. I think I need to be USB2 connected, not too worried about the speed of the backup, but usability and reliability are important.

Any pointers?

A USB hard drive should work on any computer, including those with only USB 1 support. If you use it on several computers it will appear as a hard disk when you plug it in and you will have to be very caefull if you are using automatic backup software to make sure that everyhing is saved in the right place. If you want to just copy files manually then there will be no problem.

A couple of alterntives, Maplins do a USB lead into which you can plug an HDD including mobile and SATA for 40. Also there is this Network area storeage device for 106.

Good backup software has the ability to back up your system in such a way that if your main drive fails, it can recreate it from the backup to give you a bootable system. In other words it can back up not only the data files but also a complete operating system image. To my mind this is an essential part of any backup system since it means that after a total system failure you can be up and running again within an hour or two, no need to spend days rebuilding the system.

However this sort of function will only work for other PCs on the network if the backup software is specifically marketed as allowing network backup and recovery. Software that does that is often much more expensive since it is geared towards business users.

Other facilities to look for are timed backups e.g. every day first thing in the morning before the PCs start being used, and incremental/differential backups so that you have the option of only backing up what has changed from the previous backup you did rather than the whole system, thereby saving on time and disk space.

Just copying data files across the network will be fine, your USB drive will have its own drive letter and you would only have to map it from the system you want to back up.

Thanks Kayak & Optimist, I'll have a think. Seems to me that I need to copy data from one PC to another then my main important PC has the full backup mapping ability. Is this what Norton Ghost does?