jeffmack
Some time ago,if you can find it on this thread,
there was a discussion on laptops overheating.
They came up with a range of mounts? which
supply extra cooling via an USB port.
mac

mac: I use one of those myself, as do a couple of my colleagues. It's made by Belkin, cost is under 20.

i use one too the akasa,here is some from amazon,they have reviews by the users too,well worth the read,
laptop coolers

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this is the one i use,but the one for a 17" laptop,most fit 15" and below,if you want a 17" they are a bit harder to find,
AKASA cooler

some from
dabs

read the reviews,well worth getting one,my laptop gets used every day for 10 hrs,sometimes its left on overnight downloading,i have never had a problem with temp on my Dell,if iam not using it,my kids are and the mrs,

afew more HERE

just found one in the pc world sale 8 in store only,

akasa cooler

Widows XP Home Edition with SP3.
At start up msinf16h.exe & wowexec.exe fail to boot up (insufficient memory apparently, but at max now of 2 x 512mb) & they both appear in the Task Manager Process list but with no memory allocated. They are both part of Microsoft System Info 16-bit helper module. Nothing seems to suffer because of it, but anyone any idea what this helper module is please?

If it's 16 bit then it should (!) be there only for legacy support. If you're not running any old programs, see if you can disable them in MSCONFIG. If that works for a while then dissable them permanently.

Thanks, I will try that.
I used to be running Microsoft Office 97 but I uninstalled that and installed OpenOffice from the Java site, the problem then first appeared, so maybe it was associated with that old program. All the rest are up to date editions.

I am small problem with my puter since last night i switched it on and all has booted up fine and it operates as it should and nothing has been altered to any of the setting.But since last night i am getting a box keep popping up every 10 seconds with autoplay trying to do something it is showing what looks like a torch moving left and right and a green bar that is moving as if it is trying to do something then after 10 seconds the box pops up again.If you try to cancel it it go away and then starts over again.

It is running win xp with zone alarm and avg anti virus and ad aware has anyone what is happening here as i have run out of ideas,could this be a virus or somethink that need switching off ????

Mega

Mega

For some pointers, have a look at these two sites:

http://xperiencexp.blogspot.com/2004/12/troubleshootings-torch-moves-when-you.html

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=819017

@ExecLine thanks for the links but i have had a look and i still cannot work out what is wrong the computer is running as sweet as a nut but this annoying Autiplay banner keeps kicking in every 10 seconds with this torch thing i guess it must be somthing to do with the autoplay function on the cd player or something like that.But the interesting thing is that i have not used the cd play for a long time neither have i entered the control panel so i am stuffed at the moment,is there a switch or something that i can switch the autorun facility off so that i have to manually play them or maybe it another problem ???

Do you have anything plugged into a USB port?

It is all sorted my wife had left her card from her camera in one of the slots and when i took it out its gone,so thanks for your help.

Anyone used the websites that offer design of websites, programming java etc alot of these poeople seem to be from India or Pakistan etc. Basically you put up a request for someone to do the work for you and get bids for the work, you then put the money into a Escrow acount, which is then paid when the work is complete to you satisfactoin.

Or can anyone recommend a good reliable cheap website designer/programmer

Mega

OK. Glad it's sorted.

Rich, I know some people on here have used rentacoder and been fairly pleased with the result, not too expensive by the sound of it. anyone interested in doing the work makes a bid based on the spec you set out. A lot of Russian and Indian programmers I believe.

One firm that does software for our line of business use Indian programmers exclusively.

I've used Rentacoder. I think I mentioned it on the Automatedtradingwotsit thread some time ago and there's a list of other similar websites on that thread too. It's probably quite high up the thread, so there's no need to trawl through the rest of the gobbledegook.

My work was specific to trading and nothing to do with web design (why don't you buy FrontPage or similar and do it yourself?). The Rentacoder concept and website are good though. I used a guy in Rome whose English was perfect.

Richgit

I think it would depend on the type of website that you wanted. If it is a simple project then give it a go, you should save significant money and have little to lose.

If you want to find a freelance local programmer then I suspect that there will be plenty around in a couple of months.

If it contains commercially sensitive details then you have to be sure that any information that you give them will be secure and dealt with in confidence. You also have to be sure that there is nothing in the code that would steal comercial information from you once the website is running.

Also, make sure that modifications can be done easily.

The Rentacoder contract specifically gives copyright to the buyer, and it was an issue that I was concerned about at the time.

I'm not saying that I wouldn't trust one of those guys in a far flung place, but it would certainly be more difficult to pursue him from afar if he started pirating your wares.

And don't forget you can use the Browser's Tool Bar on a web page you like and select 'View' and 'Source' to get a few ideas.

This stuff can then be Copied and Pasted into a Word Document or similar and played around with before inserting it into Front Page.

Hilary, Excelline Optimist and Seymour thanks ;-) Rentacoder was one of them first ones I spotted ;-)

Got a AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.81GHz thinking of upgrading from XP to Vista will it be fast enough and what hardware/software problems will I encounter?? or should I just stick with XP until Windows 7 comes out