Kayak: You heathen!

MS will not win in the end. Their browser is just too crappy and vulnerable. I take your point about targeting, but the fact is that MS never treated security seriously for years and years -- it was not in their DNA. One morning, Mr Bill woke up and saw the light -- Halleluljah Brothers -- bolt on some security, it is now An Issue.

Sadly, it doesn't work like that. You can't bolt it on after, they will not learn, and others will always be more secure. And if you're using a non-PC platform like the Mac or UNIX/Linux?

I can't remember the last time I used IE.

10% of the world is now using Firefox. But Opera is pretty snazzy. (Glad you like it, Hil)

I use Eudora for email -- it's better than Outlook by a mile and more secure.

Heathen? true :-)

As for IE and OE, I doubt very much that your average Joe is going to bother to change from what came packaged with his computer. Particularly when security is bolted on: maybe not perfectly, but enough for 90% not to bother complicating things by replacing what comes pre-installed. The only things Firefox et al might achieve is to protect their 10% or whatever of the market, as well as the privilege of feeding their ideas back into the design of Microsoft software of course.

Perhaps sadly, but it is more likely that once Microsoft fix the main shortcomings, browsers and email programs will become standardised to the MS version. After all, where is Realplayer and where will competitive anti-virus and firewall programs be once MS sort themselves out.

K: I do agree that the "average Joe" won't change from what arrives on his machine -- but I do think that it's likely that enough people will, which will prevent complete domination by MS.

Over ten years ago, The Economist wrote a worthy article demonstrating clearly that Apple Computer would not survive into the 21st Century. I said then that they were wrong because they misunderstood the nature of the technology market. I was right, they were wrong.

Equally, all those who say that Microsoft must win (and I'm not accusing you of that) are misunderstanding the nature of the technology market. Microsoft may dominate -- but they can never own it -- they are just not technically competent enough, they're very big for reasons unconnected to technical competence.

Cheers

MM

i hate computers, I really hate them.

How many times have you heard this phrase.

Bought 2 new iiyama vision master pro 513's.

Lovely 22" monitors i thought as advertised. open up the box, put them on my table next to my 21" vision master 505 and i discover the screens are exactly the same size. i hate the way computer companies do this by advertising something better when it's not. (unless of course my 505 is 22" but i don't think that's likely)

next problem - i look at the screen at my preferred resolution of 1920x1440 and it looks more like an hourglass than a square. 15 minutes later having pushed huge amounts of buttons on the on-screen menu it now fits the screen properly.

Finally i look at the screen and i'm a bit disappointed. Although it's brighter and clearer than the 505 it's very harsh on the eye. I like the old one better! ouch.

Maybe i'm doing it an injustice I thought. I'll go and load the proper driver for the screen rather than the default plug and play one that comes with windows. At worst i'll get a better refresh rate so maybe it'll look better.

so go to the box to get the drivers and there aren't any - oh well now go to iiyama.co.uk and download the zipped drivers no problem.


Then this is where i lose the plot, throw the dummy etc etc. how the f do you unzip these drivers now without buying pkzip cos all it keeps telling me is that my evaluation copy has expired and it demands a licence number. This is stupid really really stupid. I just want some drivers that go with my monitor. Why should i have to pay to get them?

I'm sure one of you will have a simple solution to this? maybe a third party program that will unzip for free.

Off to delete my current out of license version of pkzip now and then see what happens

Edit : this did the job quite well : http://downloads.5star-network.com/Utilities/wrar351.exe

My seven year old has put a password on the internet connection and its preventing access. I've tried everything I can think of but I just can't bypass it.

Anyone know of a way of removing the password please?

I don't even know HOW to put on a password to prevent access to the internet = pretty useful to prevent teenage son spending excess amount of time on the pc.

TIA

Kat

I think he was just trying to prevent Dad from spending an excess amount of time on the PC :-)

The answer depends on where the password has been inserted. Is it a dial-up or ADSL or cable connection, do you have a router or USB modem, and is the password problem appearing as a login box or whole failed page?

Kayak

Its telewest broadband and his computer has a wireless connection.

It's coming up as a login box.

-Mum actually :)

Katrina

Sorry Katrina :-)

I think it's trying to dial a connection on the modem rather than using the wireless connection. In Internet Explorer, try Tools/Internet Options/Connections tab and set "Never dial a connection". If that doesn't work, note down exactly what the login box says including its title.

A year ago I bought Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003.

It does not contain Publisher which I now need.

Can somone point me to the best place to buy the Publisher that is missing, please?

TP

You probably need one of those copies of Office 2k3 Pro with a VLK that they were selling on eBay a while back for around 10, TP. Pro includes Publisher, Frontpage and some other goodies.

Incidentally, is anybody else having problems with McAfee auto update atm?

Can anyone suggest an easy way out of this please. Every time I switch on the computer the file for System32 appears and I have to turn it off with the buttom at top right. This is a huge file containing all the systems which make the computer work and I would like to know how I can prevent it showing without upsetting things.

katcot

There are a number of software programs free on the internet that you run and then put the cursor over the password and it will reveal it if it shown as invisible. If you have a blank password field then....

Ash,

Go here:

START/RUN Type REGEDIT

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

All the items in here represents a program launched at start-up. Each value's data holds the command to be executed. If the command is blank or contains just a character in double quotation marks, this missing data can cause Windows Explorer to display the System32 folder at start-up.

Look carefully at each value in the right-hand pane. If the value's data is blank, contains only single quotation marks, or otherwise appears to be corrupted, delete the value. Repeat the process for the other key, then restart your system.

Do not delete anything you are not sure about! You can select FILE/EXPORT and save it somewhere before deleting to make sure.

Also a handy way of finding nasties. Go to those two files and delete anything that looks dodgy e.g XXXSEX.exe, POPUP.exe

etc.

does anyone know where to get a AMD Athlon XP2800+ CPU, it's the highest cpu the mother can take,
just upgrading the boys PC with new graphics,dvd RW,ram,

steve

steve,what type of socket is it,socket a or 939 ????? thats the bit you push the chip into !!!

Mega....

Mega
socket A,
i have been told they don't make them anymore,dont want to upgrade MB and chip,then it will be power supply,then HD,etc,

steve

http://http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=80284

Could be of interest.

Mega...

thanks Mega your a star,a mega star bucks ;-)

cheers

steve

just looked,will the sempron 2800 fit,i have the XP 2000 and wanted the XP 2800,

steve