Can anyone explain what the diffence is between a normal TFT monitor and one with DVI. Plus what benefits it has? I am looking to set up a dual screen set up with possiblity of a 3rd. What graphics card would anyone recomend? I have a Dell 2.6Mhz 512 RAM 80Gb HD with WinXP . currently with factory fitted 64Mb card.?
Ta in advance.. Croc you got any deals going???

d2k

I have recently fitted a Matrox P750 for three screens @175 from Komplett. It is really a poor mans parhelia but since I don't play games etc on my trading m/c I don't need 256mb in a graphics card. Very happy with it and very easy set up and I would recommend it.

Regards
Rob

PS there is a thread discussing graphics cards started by boyse

d2000, re the DVI part of your Q, DVI is a fully digital interface which means that monitors and cards so equipped can pass signal directly in the digital domain. The Analogue connections (D25 connectors) translate the signals in the PC into Analogue before displaying it on the monitor. For TFT panels there are considerable potential benefits from staying in the digital domain, the geometry will be perfect and the colours should be more accurate and the performance can be better. However for most users these differences may not be noticeable. For users who are colour critical and who profile their monitors DVI is very nice. Some day most monitors will work in the digital domain.

DVI connections are normally longer and have what appears to be a cross at one end, however some manufacturers use different versions and the DVI connector on Graphics cards can carry analogue signals as well so many (most) DVI cards can handle Analogue as well.

Thanks guys, I'll look that card up.... and thanks for the DVI info, spaceman

Morning all,

I have just installed Norton Firewall on my pc and need to set it so that I can receive moneyam streaming services.

Does anyone know a way I can do this?

Thanks in advance

I am looking for a decent isp.

Fed up with Freeserve - basically I can't run enough internet explorer windows without them falling over.

Am currently on the aol trial - the stability is fantastic - I can run anything I want. However, today I have discovered they do not support internet connection sharing which seems unbelievable in this day and age.

Broadband not available here - don't think it will be for another 2 years and even then I'm too far from the exchange.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

My problem first:

Today I have received 8 e-mails most purportedly from Microsoft or similar containing upgrade information, and all contained the w32.Swen.A@mm virus. Becoming a pain as I received several yesterday, same sort of message, same virus. Whilst Norton picks it up it's a pain. Each message comes from a slightly different name eg MS Network Mail storage, Microsoft Security Centre etc etc. How can I continue to receive genuine stuff but not have these e-mails sent? - it's taking me twice as long to receive my e-mails at the moment.

CC - I use Onetel, very reliable, sometimes can't get on in the middle of the evening but otherwise very good.

Seymour, the only thing you can do is to check the email address it is being sent from and get them to clean up their system (as they are infected). Right click on the message in Outlook, click Properties, then Details tab. The first line starting Return-Path should contain the email address of the sender. You will probably find that it is the same for all the enmails. I don't believe that this particular virus spoofs the Return-Path address, although some of the later ones do.

SC, Microsioft dont send out patches by mail so any mail that claims to be from them with an attachment should be regarded as suspect. I had one last week, it didnt seem right so I did some checking and found these :-

http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

Thanks Kayak & Spaceman,

Yes, I knew that it was suspect, as it happens Norton picks them up before I get to look at them. For anyone who hasn't got an antivirus I can wholeheartedly recommend Norton - I use the version "Norton Internet Security". It's totally transparent, picks up updates automatically so you're always up to date and will scan incoming and outgoing without you needing to do a thing. Obviously worth its weight in gold at the moment. The viruses are from two sources, one several messages from a church office, the other from a cider pressing company!!! I can understand the Church one as it may have got to them via our Church, but the Cider pressing co I have no idea about!

Best thing to do is just to email them telling them they have a virus... chances are that they have already noticed some strange things with their PCs. You can point them to the information on the virus at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html and to the removal instructions at the bottom.

My Email box was flooded with that hoax virus ;ast week. Very convincing.

Anybody use a proprietary registry cleaner for Win 98? Any recommendations, please?

TOK, not sure what you are after exactly and I dont use W98, however I do use Windows Washer 5, Ad Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy. I think they are all very good.

I use W2K but I would think all the above would work with W98, but I havnt checked.

Hi Spaceman - Thanks for that. I, too, use Window Washer but I kept getting Kernel32.dll error messages when using it. Webroot support said my Win 98 must be corrupted and needs reinstalling. Well, I don't think I can cope with the hassle of all that (being a technie numbskull as I am) so I thought a registry clean-up might help. There seem to be lots of firms willing to take my money for this task and I wondered if any of them were worth the cost. Regards, K

I have a Win Xp machine with AOL as the broadband internet service provider. I do not seem to be able to network my wife's laptop to mine. All the protocols seem to be in place etc. The network setup wizard fails.

I seem to recall that AOL do not support networking, but surely they cannot prevent me from having a LAN in order to transfer files, share printers etc.

I would be grateful for anyones thoughts on this.

Kevin
I use the registry cleaner thats on my page
http://www.ftsedow.com/software/software.htm
Never had a problem with it and works well
But do a backup first as you are in a very delicate area!

Zabbey
Have you made the connection shareable?

Croc if you mean the regscrub one that link seems to be broken.

2Abbey, I hate AOL ! and I think they do dissable connection sharing, not sure how though, it can probabably be worked round.

I believe all connections are as they should be but so as to check what do I do?

I agree about AOL. When I have been on AOL for some time it will not let me shut down the computer. AOL fails to respond. AOL have been unable to fix the problem. Since there is also the matter of the ICS I have stated that I wish to terminate my one year contract. In short they will not let me! I am unable to take my business elsewhere since there is a broadband indicator placed on the telephone line. Other service providers cannot contract with me.

Essentially I am stuck with them for a further 6 months or until they release me from the contract. Some chance of that!