opto,there is usually a very very small hole on the draw its self if you straighten out a paperclip and push it in the hole,it should open it :-)

Thanks Mega, will pass on that info.

Try unplugging and plugging back in the power supply to the cd rom.

That'll teach it!

Sorted now folks. It is my friends 'reserve' PC so not too important. His wife hit it hardish and it opened. Who says women don't have a technical flair..LOL

There may be a tiny hole in the front of the unit into which he can push a stiff piece of wire (an unfolded paper clip?) . the drawer should then open.

I want to put website details on a Ebay advert that people can click on and take them straight to the website,how do i do this please,rather than cut and paste ????

Rick...

Using HTML, you need to say pretty much what the MoneyAM link tool produces for us.

eg, &lta href="http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html"&gthttp://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html&lt/a&gt

Which creates the following link http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html

Let's swap the URL of an image for the words of the link. Just as an example we'll use an eBay gif for our image:

http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/uk/navbar/redesign_p1/ebayLogo.gif

So this means we are going to swap the URL of the eBay gif for the HTML URL web site stuff inside the link. This is currently:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html

so taking one out and putting the other in gives us:

&lta href="http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html"&gt&ltimg src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/uk/navbar/redesign_p1/ebayLogo.gif"&gt&lt/a&gt

And the final result is:



So if you click on the eBay image it takes you to the web site.

(Phew!)

;-)

Doc,thanks will have a go,you aint wrong PHEW :-)

Doc sorted,many thanks :-))))

i think i have a problem,just noticed that Nortons AV auto protection is taking up my CPU,pulsing every second and the cpu ranging from 0 to 25,
i have noticed IE a bit slow and is this normal,i have run all the scans and have no virus or ad ware,
is it just that my 5 year old pc is getting old,(AMD 2000XP 1800)mem is 1024 ram,NAV is 2004,
looking at getting a new PC from MESH but
will still need the above to run my realtime charts,and the more power hungry sites i will use on the new one,

any views on a new PC

many thanks
steve

I found the following useful site. Just the job for a new PC - or even an old one, come to think of it:-

http://100-downloads.com/

Scussy,

Similar problem to you. With an AMD 500 (Ok it's a few years old), but all was fine and dandy until I went over to XP. It's generally OK but the net (using IE) is hopelessly slow. Can get streaming pages (eventually) but on line broking is too slow to complete transactions. I notice that the CPU is now running at 100% all the time (only about 20-25% using W95). Had installed NAV (2004) but have stopped that, but no noticeable improvement.


Is it really also another new PC or have I missed something obvious to others?

Have you used Ad-aware to check for Malware and Spyware on your machine? The symptoms you describe sound 'classic'.

55011, have you looked in windows task manager,
(right click on taskbar and select processes in the task manager) then you will see what is using the CPU,
Doc, i have and run every other day,spybot S&D,ad-aware,MS antispyware,AVG (free) and Nortons internet security 2004,so that side of things should be ok,
in task manager i click on NAVauto protect when its using 25 - 30 % of my CPU aand end process,then i RE enable NAV auto protect and it does not use up the CPU,so only when i have the PC on a very long time it does this,(it seems),

steve

Windows PCs face huge virus threat
By Kevin Allison in San Francisco
Published: January 2 2006 18:18 | Last updated: January 2 2006 22:19

Computer security experts were grappling with the threat of a newweakness in Microsofts Windows operating system that could put hundreds of millions of PCs at risk of infection by spyware or viruses.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0d644d5e-7bb3-11da-ab8e-0000779e2340.html


The news marks the latest security setback for Microsoft, the worlds biggest software company, whose Windows operating system is a favourite target for hackers.

The potential [security threat] is huge, said Mikko Hyppen, chief research officer at F-Secure, an antivirus company. Its probably bigger than for any other vulnerability weve seen. Any version of Windows is vulnerable


and a fix

http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html

Where can I get something that will automatically refresh a page every x seconds ?

Cheers

Upgrade your ZX Spectrum tight arse.

Dil, http://www.snapfiles.com/get/yrefresher.html

brian ... bog off

Cheers Kayak