Optimist, thats the main reason I might have to enter a new passphrase because the one I got, I used a song title with a few missing words and used capitals and small letters, but everytime I enter it on other computer it says no

Update
Thought I'd sorted out other PC but now it seems to bring up a blue screen memory dump error or reboots itself when nothing is happening B***** B**** B***

Thanks zz,

I'll have a look.

TP

Hi tech peeps.

I set up a desktop pc last night that's been in storage for about 2 years.

Everythign seems tiickerty boo, except the cd r drive, which doesn't want to open. It's as if it's got jammed.

Any quick fix solutions?

@KEAYDIAN a paperclip straightened out and pushed into the little round hole in the opening flap normally does the trick that is the way to open it.

Ta

I'm looking for a laptop for the kids (one getting ready for his GCSE next year). Will be used mainly for browsing, music, some light games and gentle office apps. Never bought a laptop before, so looking for some sound advice. Willing to spend a max of 500. Looked at some Acer and Toshiba models...but really not sure. Can anyone recommend something worthwhile?

klal

Spend 500 on a 'refurbed laptop' with these people and they'll probably deliver it to you in a Rolls Royce or Bentley:

http://www.tier1online.com/Laptops

You can read about Tier1 and their products on their 'About' tab.

Thanks ExecLine. Taking a look now...

Being urged to update to IE8... Does it throw up any problems?

No problems with it at all . It's a big improvement on IE7 and far better than Firefox.

Thanks Optimist :)

i have upgraded to vista x64 biz,it comes with IE8,it is slow,very slow,and now have to use firefox,

any ideas how to get it to load pages faster,and sometimes its like 6 to 8 secs,

seems like there must be loads of checking of the web site by IE8 and AVG internet security,

scussy,

May not be the answer you wanted but I swopped AVG to Avast - with an apparent gain in speed. But I'm still on IE7.

TP

Scussy

Upgrade to Windows 7 RC.

I've "upgraded" to IE8 and have to say that there's precious little advantage over 7, as far as I can see. At first it seemed faster, but that has well and truly gone away - in particular, it can be horrendously slow opening new tabs, which I have a suspicion is related to the amount of network load at the time. I've found a couple of websites (bloglines for example) have slight glitches on it.

I've stuck with it so far, but am seriously considering going over to Firefox, despite loathing the general smugness of the Firefox community

TP, i have a year left on my AVG licenses,will look again then,

i think Vista BIZ can stay on laptop,was playing again last night with IE8 and was a lot faster,we shal see,

Just playing with windows 7 now, build 7100,on my backup PC,MB only let me use 2 Gb ram,says can use 4Gb but only the duel ddr,i have them but using them on my main PC,
so far looking ok with win 7 and 2 Gb ram,on and old 939 socket,athlon64 3800,

zzaxx et al: part of the problem with IE8 is that MSFT moved to conform to the W3C standards a bit more closely -- the result being that it doesn't always work properly with sites that were specifically built to work with IE's (non-conforming-to-standards) earler versions.

Firefox is far better in this (standards conformance) regard, regardless of smugness.

Do also try Opera. It's not smug, it's Norwegian. I use it a lot. I never use IE now, except when I have to because bits of Microsoft's site "censor" non-IE browsers from access. I think being dog-in-the-manger is worse than being smug. :-)

Talking of which, there are reports that some parts of Microsoft's site don't work with IE8 for precisely the reasons stated. Hoist with their own petard.

I'll stick with IE7. Thank you all. Not feeling too adventurous these days. :)

I am back on firefox,IE8 hangs too much,

I'm finding that Firefox, (v 3.0.10), has a tendency to hang on my machine. IE8 is perhaps a bit better in this respect, but I still prefer Firefox, ( I trust it more than anything that comes out of MS)