I run a Matrox G200 quad card too and no complaints here either.

It has two sockets and comes with two double leads which you plug into the two sockets - but I only run three monitors not four so the fourth monitor lead just flaps around at the back of the PC.

When I right click on a blank area on the Desktop and then left click on

Display Properties
Settings

I see the monitor numbers "1,2,3,4" all side by side but of course Number 4 isn't actually a runner.

My monitors are all the old fashioned 'Sony Trinitron 200ES' (17") and are set at 85Hz refresh rate, 1024 by 768 pixels and True Color (24bit). Cracking picture quality too and I don't get any eye strain.

Don't forget to have the "1,2,3,4" set 'perfectly side by side' or the mouse pointer doesn't flow straight when you move it across the screens.

Thanks DocProc

I know with computer games I am a sad person but I do like the odd game of doom but as posted previously it will not work under windows xp and the only possible solution was a dual boot between dos/windows 3.11/windows xp...so I thought...

However with computers all things are possible.....some Harvard genius endorsed by ID software (dooms writers) has written some software that you download for free and it converts doom into 32 bit with fantastic graphics with mouse/gameplayer support.....its called kickstart and you get it for free via ID softwares main site under "problems" why will my mouse not work

How do i send a Fax with a BT Broadband modem.Using WIN XP PRO.Is it possible?

Faxes are sent directly to the recipient's machine by a dial-up connection, so you will need a dial-up modem to send a fax. There are cheap PCI modems available on eBay for 10 or less if you don't already have one. XP has fax software built in.

There are also web sites that will receive your fax via the internet and send it for you, but it would probably be much cheaper to buy your own modem.

Cheers Kayak

Hi

On Ruths FTSE/DOW divergence thread, the lines of text go off the screen. Has anyone any idea how I can format IE so that I can see all the text on the screen without having to scroll right?

Thanks

Joe

My son has leant on the keyboard and now all the text in certain web pages viewed in Internet Explorer seems to be displayed in a smaller font.

Does anybody know which key(s) he will have pressed and what the antidote is please? And will somebody also please come and take him away because I'm not very happy with him at all??!!??

Hil - from the main menu:
View | Text Size | Medium
If you've got a mouse wheel then Ctrl+Rotating makes the font size bigger and smaller. (where it hasn't been fixed at a certain size by the page author).

Thanks BT. You're a star.

I have got a mouse wheel and I think that I must have pressed the wheel at the same time as he leant on the keyboard and pressed the Ctrl key.

You just cant do without a man, eh Hil

Twotanks, not your fault, it's just that Ruth's graph is too wide for the screen so the graph sets the page width and all the text obeys that.

Thanks Seymour

How long does a complete defragmentation of a hard disk take on other people's PCs. I did a 40Gb drive and it took 9 hours. Is this a record?

Haystack, mine normally take about 20 mins (80GB drives) but they are not very fragmented. If the drive is full it can take ages also if virus checking or similar are running it can take much much longer, in fact I have seen the MS defrag give up because of contant retries with virus S/W.

I switch off all the start-up items and then defrag whips through my 12Gb in a matter of a few minutes

When defragmenting the 40Gb drive I stopped all processes and removed the swap file as well. The disk was very badly fragmented. It did seem as though at least half of the disk had to me moved around. It is the first time that I have defragemented it in a couple of yrears of heavy use. One of my sons loaded a game on it the other day and it took 1Gb. PCs are just going to have to get bigger.

They are going to have to get bigger. I'm thinking of upgrading my dual floppy Amstrad to a 20Mb hard disk.

Hey Kayak, no need to go that far, all that upgrading will cost a lot of cash.

I happened upon the following truly excellent IE Help Site. The depth and variety of stuff it covers is totally amazing! It is so big the site owner, Sandi, has divided it into sections. Here are just three of them:-

Here's a link for Bugs, Glitches and Stuff-Ups

Here's another one for Bugs, Glitches and Stuff-Ups Page 2

And yet another for Bugs, Glitches and Stuff-Ups Page 3

Here's another link which you can use to quickly test if you have any "parasites" installed on your machine:-

Parasite Detector