maddoctor

The exact operation depends on the graphics card driver so it might be worth checking their website.

When you uncheck the Extend.. option are you saying that the actual monitor is switched off or that it goes blank in the properties box?

Optimist , nothing on the second screen when powered up.

Wondering if it was something to do with a preset driver myself.

Unless you have a real need for the cloned mode then I should forget it and enjoy having two monitors.

Optimist , thanks , I am sure I will , just wanting to understand what it is I have got as spent an age getting the hardware right and am happy with that after all the help you and other guys have given me.

I think you will have to go to the graphics adaptors site as they all work in different ways.

I have a laptop that switches the 2nd screen on when I plug it in but the extended option has to be checked in display properties.

On another box I have a Matrox card with a different set of options.

New worm distributed via ad-networks:

http://www.lurhq.com/iframeads.html

Thanks to the respondents to my OE winge. While I couldn't open it at all I did eventually get it back by opening my inbox by clicking on the inbox file from Explorer. Outlook does seem a very fully featured programme - never really bothered with it before and my web mail account also has all I need. However OE seems to be heavily embeded into IE and scary fiddling with registry seems necessary - not for me so I'll leave it alone for now.
Thanks again for your time/help.

Kernow

Should you decide to move from OE to Outlook, Outlook has some good import routines to get your data and settings accross.

It will probably offer to set itself as the default mail client but if it doesn't you can change it from IE (Tools/Internet Options/Programms tab).

Optimist - I'm still on Outlook 97 which probably isn't the bees kness anymore - I can't be bothered with all this upgrade chasing unless/until this laptop goes phutt. I have always used the address book and diary in Outlook though 'cos I have a Psion series 5 (soon be a museum piece as well!) which I keep in sync. for when either are playing up. This has got me out of a real jam on more than one occasion.
Thanks again for your advice :-))

McAuley's Axiom:

"If a system is of sufficient complexity, it will be built before it is designed,
implemented before it is tested and outdated before it is debugged."

axdpc, but in the real world it is not possible to test all aspects of a system. Keeps IT people like me in jobs (even though I dont have one!)

Can anybody help with my problem receiving Stockwatch on this site?
I can get the screen up minus the actual details of my Stockwatch. Sometimes it comes up instantly. Others I have to contiually click the Stockwatch tab.
I have been advised by am to enable Java streaming. Haven't sussed out how to do this despite looking all over my PC.

Would appreciate any help. It's driving me mad.

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For Windows or the Mac, the Eudora mailer is well worth a look. It's a nifty bit of software which is much less vulnerable to the standard attacks that get mounted on Outlook address books and so on. See Eudora

It's also (in version 6)got smart client spam filtering which seems to work well.

Mr E, thanks for the info however I should have also said that I dont want a job at the moment either ;-)

I've got a problem in retrieving the e-mails from one of my Pipex accounts.

It's been happening for a couple of days now. I use Outlook Express 6. I can see that there are 8 messages to download, but it continually sticks while downloading the first message. A box pops up and the text says "Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds. Would you like to wait another 60 seconds for the server to respond?". Pressing "Wait" just gives me the same pop-up box 60 seconds later.

What can I do please?

Hilary

I don't know the cause but as a work around you could view the email on a web based browser (use www.mail2web.com if pipex dosn't have one ). You should then be able to view and delete the offending email.

Hilary - agree with Optimist - I've found this problem is usually a very large attachment from a well meaning friend/relative.

Thanks for that guys. Following your posts, I've discovered that Pipex have something called Netmail which performs the exact function you described.

Ironically, it appears that the offending article was a am Traders Report.

hilary, it's more likely to be a problem at Pipex. I have a number of email accounts with different ISPs and every week at least one of them has this problem. It just means the ISP mail server is not replying.