I was thinking "free". 2 is damn expensive for an app these days :-) I''l have a trawl of the forums. Thanks Hil. (edit - should that be 'fora'?)

Curious about your machine?
How good is the CPU?
How good is your graphics card?
Is your RAM memory what you think it should be?
etc
etc

Do some FREE benchmark tests...

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

I found this stuff fascinating.

I have created a problem for myself somehow>

Everytime I click an option it opens in a new frame>

Also I seem to be stuck in upper case>

Anybody know what I have done and how I fix it?

Well, one of your shift or shift lock keys appears to be stuck down>

Check keyboard plug, reboot, and also check the accessibility options>

Lol :-)

TY. Senior moment. Cat walked across the keyboard and everything lit up....
except me... apparently :)

For those who wonder if it's them or whether a site is down, there's a site for that!

Try http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/moneyam.com

Subsitute the site you're having problems with for moneyam.com in the URL

What happens if DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com are down? Is it them or is it me?

:o)

They thought of that :-)

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Morning Hilary, nice to see you. It had to be you, didn't it. :-)

And thank you Kayak.

I thought you'd like that one, DelBoy.

:o)

Are there any networking specialists around?

A friend of mine is lumbered with an NTL/Telewest broadband connection. If he plugs the network cable from a single PC into their modem then the connection works, a router is required in order to use multiple PC's.

We are trying to use a Linux based firewall router but it refuses to pick up the DHCP configuration from the modem. Telewest can't help because their business connections only support a single PC.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Opti - ipchains?

Gausie ??

Microsoft Security Essentials got a thumbs up on this forum not too long ago.

As my Avast was needing re-registering I felt now was the time to try MSE.

My C drive contains about 100 gig of data and my USB (backup) drive contains about 390 gig as it has Acronis and Replicator backups on it.

I started a Full scan and so far it has taken 13.5 hours to do what looks like 80% on the progress bar.

Is anyone else using MSE around here?

TP

Make me a sandwich!

No

sudo Make Me a Sandwich!

Oh, ok then.

I find the full scan of MSE fairly fast. Are you sure that your disk is not badly fragmented as that would slow it down quite a bit.

H,

It might be. I'll look when the run finishes.

Does it get faster with familiarity of the disk?

TP

Opti, we use NTL (Virgin) business broadband across our network, and it works fine. We have a couple of Netgear Firewall routers connected in to the NTL modem, and this provides broadband to around 10 PCs.

I haven't a clue about how it's set up though, as our tame PC / network man did it all, but I don't think it was particularly difficult to set up - other than when he tightened the security on it up so much it was slower than dial up! I'm happy to have a look at setting when I have a mo if it's any help.

You may need to degragment it a couple of times in a row if you have large files that it hasn't manged to defragment.

H,

What defragger do you use? I'm using Defraggler.

I'm on Vista and the MS one with it does not have a nice coloured chart - which made me wonder what, if anything, it ever did.

TP