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

If you want to know what parasites are, this link should give you a reasonably good idea

Haystack

Go to http://www.executive.com and download a trial of Diskeeper. it is an enhanced version of the defragmenter that ships with WinXP. They do a cut down version that is free to use but you will want to buy it.

I have a big problem with excel 2000 running on a laptop with XP pro. the app fials to start and brings up the usual 'please tell microsoft about this ...' box.

When I click on details the 'Error signature' reads as follows;

Appname excel.exe Appver 9.0.0.2719 ModName; mso9.dll

etc


Ive tried a dll fix; no luck
Ive tried uninstalling MS office 2000; no luck
Ive even tried to uninstal MS 2000 and instal Office97; still no luck.

Any ideas?

thanks

Neil