Hangon-

Ditto. I thought they came with Linux - but can't you run Firefox without installing it in the same way as Portable Office?

TiVo. That is why I am hanging on to mine. I have a chap in Brighton who replaces the hard drive for me from time to time and he still swears by them as being better than any of the new systems.

TP

Definitely Windows 7 Home Premium with two hard drives - 100GB and 183GB and 2GB RAM. Very nice - if I can only get the b****y thing to connect!

The Other Kevin
What web page is your Internet Explorer set to open when it starts up?

Someone else had the same problem on a forum, this is their reply

I was facing the same problem. I was able to solve it with following steps:

1. Go to control panel
2. Go to System and Security
3. Click "Allow Programs and Features" under "Windows Firewall"
4. Click "Change Settings" and then turn ON the check box at the bottom of the list with header "World Wide Web Service".

Success and Mrs TOK is a very happy bunny surfing away merrily. The solution came from a poster on the BT forum: untick the LAN box in Internet Options. As simple as that. But thanks for your thoughts guys. TOK

re - defragging

Has any of you tried "RegistryBooster ", the reviews are a bit mixed.

It boost of fixing a few things ... It conducts deep scans of your registry to check for errors and conflicts, then repairs and optimizes the registry to peak performance and stability. Periodic scans will keep your registry "clean" and will greatly enhance your system's performance and stability. You'll see immediate increases in speed and decreases in system conflicts.

Has any of you tried "RegistryBooster ", the reviews are a bit mixed.

It boots of fixing a few things ... "It conducts deep scans of your registry to check for errors and conflicts, then repairs and optimizes the registry to peak performance and stability. Periodic scans will keep your registry "clean" and will greatly enhance your system's performance and stability. You'll see immediate increases in speed and decreases in system conflicts."

This registry stuff is a load of crap, I am not saying its not true its just that for most people its irrelevant, you should not play with the registry unless you have a problem.

Same is true for defrag really, most modern operating systems don't need it especially as most people now have disk drives that are much bigger that the space they actually use.

Just a quick question i have been having trouble getting onto yahoo mail this last few days is anyone else having the same trouble ???

Mega

No.

No

Thanks gents,i guess it must be this end then.

I can gain access to yahoo mail from IE but not from FF but why the sudden change as i have not altered any setting etc so FFmust be blocking it some how the problem is trying to find out why it all of a sudden is causing a problem.

Its just the one site that is causing the problem,does anyone have any suggestion ???

Just tried yahoo mail on my FF version 3.5.7 and it works fine for me.

MG, try clearing your FF cache, re-open the browser and try again. Might just do the trick.

I have upgraded FF to version 3.6.10 and it works fine with Yahoo mail.

Mega. I had some problems a few months back & I seem to remember that it would work with Mail Classic but not 'new' view of Yahoo Mail. It just sorted itself out one day.
Edit. That was on IE so probably not same problem.

On the question of web-based e-mail systems....

Which is the better of the two, GMail or Yahoo Mail?

Anyone started with one and then changed from that one over to the other?

As an Outlook Express user, I'm also on the look out for the best way of converting from an e-mailing system on my machine to one on the web.

I would also greatly like to store my old e-mails on the web too, and in easily retrievable and readable form.

Gmail is good. Not tried Yahoo. Also if you are running a mobile phone with the Android OS, Gmail is the easiest to set up and use.