Hello Paul, You asked: <<What make of sound card do you have?>> Sorry but we don't know! Looking in: "My Computer - View System information - Hardware - Device...
If you just look down the list in Control Panel you should see.. Sounds and Audio Devices, click on this.. Pity you do not live in Suffolk.. I could have...
... ^v^ ^v^~~~~ Just a little reminder to all our members ~~~~^v^ ^v^ I always recommend that members of this group run a program that will do an audit of...
How many of us are thinking of upgrading to Windows Vista? I see not a lot at the moment, never mind that will change in the months and years to come,...
Hi Paris, form the articles I have been reading on the Vista blogs from the various people in the know (like Brian), Microsoft has engineered the over install...
Sorry.. I didn't understand a word of that..??? ... the over install of an unregistered version as the 'unofficial' way to bypass the original OS qualification...
... LOL ... Mike the Bike is an old hippie, if you don't understand him now you should hear him when it is good weather, the wind is in his hair, the Highway ...
Hi Paul, many of the people in the industry (computer technology) or authors of computer technical articles post the results of there finding in ongoing web...
Hi Thanks for letting me join the group.. I have a few PC problems... I have a start up problem...When I start up my PC everything opens as normal.But then my...
Paul Basically, the procedures for installing Windows Vista by upgrading an existing installed versions of Windows, are intended to safeguard microsoft...
Hello people! I just got an e-mail from Nero to say that my product, or the registration key is not legal - they have informed me that I am not legally obliged...
... Jeff On behalf of everyone welcome to the group we are very pleased that you joined and we are here to help you. The behaviour that you describe can be...
Hi melianbriggs, I would contact the person you bought it from, and inform them of your situation. If no satisfaction is received, I would report the seller...
Hi Paris..Thanks for the welcome.... I did what you suggested but it never solved the problem... In my accessaries there is a command prompt...When I click on...
Hi Jeff What do you have in your Start up folder on the path Start-> Programs-> Startup What do you have in Start-> Settings-> Control Panel-> Scheduled Tasks?...
Hi Rupert...Thanks for helping me In my scheduled tasks I only have one task..Scan PC with Norton every friday...In my start folder/programs/startup there is a...
Thank you to Alisdair for you help, I really do appreciate you devoting so
much time to our problem. I'm sorry this is taking so long, but my daughter
is in...
... ^v^ ^v^ ^v^~~~~ Paris's Reply ~~~~^v^ ^v^ ^v^ Jeff First thing I suggest is to go here (http://www.sysinternals.com/ ) and download a program called...
Hi Jeff Hmm well nothing suspicious there, do you see anything suspicious under startup tab if you run msconfig from the Start-> Run box? Oops I think Paris...
Hi all, for those of you who don't remember - Pinky and Perky were two little pigs who spoke in very high pitched squeaky voices (those over 40 should recall...
Ha, my Uncle Bob (Bura & Harwick) was one of the puppeteers on that show. From Jon Harwicks obbituary "The youngest of four children, John Hardwick was born at...
Jeff Try typing regedit.exe into the run box and see if anything happens. You didn't happen to install IE7 around the time this started happening? My...
Hi, Tezza I had this problem once, though not on a laptop. It was with a Compaq desktop PC. The problem was that although Compaq use the standard AC97...
... ^v^ ^v^ ^v^~~~~ Paris's Reply ~~~~^v^ ^v^ ^v^ Hi Tezza Are you sure its not the Chipmunks? Which player is she using? Updating your sound card's driver...
Hi Annie Well there are certainly a lot of issues developing here, the worst being the copy of the XP OS disk. Here is my take on the problem: 1, The 1979...
Hi Jeff Before you do any Registry tweaking, check to see if Explorer is loading a startup: Click Start-> Run and type msconfig in the "Run" box...click "Ok"....
I have an internal 80GB HDD and I also had a 12GB HDD fitted to a USB caddy; the HDD in the caddy went on the blink and I have bought a 160GB HDD which I have...
... ~~££~~$$~~$$~~££~~Paris's Reply~~££~~$$~~$$~~££ Alisdair I have just gone out and bought a Caddy from Maplins forty of those English quids, don't...