A week or so ago I had problems sending e-mails (Windows XP and Outlook Express) but eventually sorted it, so all is well now. But the error message which understandably came up when the fault was...
MSN keeps insisting that it is my email provider when, in fact, I use Outlook Express. How do I get rid of it? It doesn't appear among the programs I can ADD OR REMOVE.
For the last few months I find that I can't download things. When I try to I get a series of little rectangles labelled NEW TAB jiggling back and forth across the top of my screen while the cursor...
That is, the nave and choir run west-east with the altar at the eastern end. I gather that somewhere in a mosque is an indication of the exact direction of Mecca, which makes religious sense. But...
The CD deck in my hi-fi stack has perished and I don't feel like replacing it with the official replacement (even if Sony still make it) which would be unnecessarily large and expensive. Since you can...
After many hours trying and failing to install Adobe Flashplayer 10 etc., I resent the fact that there are so many items that I can't download or even look at without this wretched device which...
After many fruitless attempts I am still trying to install Adobe 10 Flash Player. I am ploughing my way through the long list of Adobe instructions on how to solve the problem and am told that I have...
The other day I heard a comic monologue written by Keith Waterhouse called, I think, "The Shepherd's Warning". It tells how the nativity shepherds were stopped by a policeman on the way To...
mib was right: I did 'get on the case' of the BBC "The Planet" footage being used for religious propaganda and wrote to George Entwistle, Director BBC Vision, asking whether he knew that BBC...
I have been searching the internet for a sketch called "The Shepherd's Warning" by Keith Waterhouse but with no luck so far. Anyone know where I might find it?
I want to add to the 512Mb DDR DIMM memory in my HP Pavilion PC. There are so many DDR DIMMs available, all of them having something like 333MHz in their descriptions. How do I find out which is the...
Does anyone know a slang term in Latin for the male genitals? None of my Latin books can help.
I need this for a specific purpose, not out of salaciousness....
On the Today programme this morning Alex Salmond once again spoke of ‘Scottish oil’ which, of course, does not exist; it is UK oil. If the Scots get a referendum on independence it will...
I keep getting invited to, and keep trying to, install Adobe 10. I disable Firefox and have uninstalled Adobe 9 and the installation of Adobe 10 seems to proceed smoothly, finishing with DONE. But...
My wife's laptop (Windows 7) hs suddenly started producing her e-mails with the right-hand side-off screen so that she can't get at the MINIMISE, FULL SCREEN or CANCEL buttons or the scrolling slider....
I want to use the RECOVER facility on my PC (Windows XP) and have backed up everything on my internal hard drive to an external hard drive. When I have finished the Recovery, copying back my files and...
I have just connected a 500Gb external hard drive to my PC (Windows XP) intending to back up my internal hard drive. My computer recognises the new HD, calling it Drive L: but Spotmau's Clone Genius...
When trying to remove unnecessary start-up applications using msconfig I am told that access is refused me unless I can show that I am the Administrator or some such words. Since I am the sole owner...
I want to backup files in Windows XP and it says that if BACKUP does not appear in the ACCESSORIES menu (and it doesn't) I must install it with the Windows XP CD. I don't ever remember having such a...