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a bit more info might help! Is it that the program wont run (I assume it is an exe or bin file) or is it that it does not give any screen or sound? If it is an exe file can it run (instal) on any other machine? It may …

excel itself has a helpful programming system within it. you can reference the contents of any cell (or other page with cells) by using the 'title' of the cell (or page and cells) (or even worksheet, page, and cells!). So if you concoct a formula like in cell A1 = …

I know this may be an obvious answer but I have had trouble occasionally trying to either delete or rewrite disk labels and the very old fashioned (yes I know!) attribute of 'read only' has been set and so it won't work. it is also true that maybe the acceptance …

I can see both sides of the problem, yours and your parents! *Perhaps it might be worth trying some negotiation with them (they pay the bills!) M

It may also be worth thinking about a better air flow all round. you could try leaving the side off the machine and have a table fan running. Make sure (and I'm sure you have) that there is no dust clogging any of the vents or on the motherboard or …

I assume you have checked all the connections including removing the video card and then replacing it fully pushed down with its holding screw tight. Just one pin not connecting with the motherboard slot can give this symptom. A dodgy power supply (ie not constant) to the video board may …

one assumes you are logged on as an administrator too! M

answer yes, there are a number of ways of mending boot manager , re-install, partition disks, recovery console, and even a linux startup cd and edit the bootmgr file! M

and for the about same price you could upgrade to win 7 that will run both M

There is a can of worms here! Not booting properly or shutting down can often be a sign that the boot manager file on the hard disk (the one that actually starts windows) has been changed or become corrupt. It is usually repaired by a re-installation but can be repaired …

There may be another thought, I tried using wine but in the end decided a better way was to see if there is a linux program out there that will do the same thing as you are trying to do using the exe. So for example I gave up on …

have you looked in the spool directory? windows32/system/spool/name of printer.... I assume you have but if there is corrupted file at the top of the queue that can give the symptoms you describe and the cure its to delete anything in that printers spool file queue. ( it could also …

I cannot give MAC details but I do know about liveboxes! All the liveboxes I've dealt with are protected by an ID and a password. (if you type 192.168.1.1) in a browser it will take you to the livebox and ask for ID. Once you have that you can get …

do you get the same problem if you connect using hard wire ethernet. If so then it is in the laptop in terms of its taking over the modem. since you say that without the connection the modem works it would seem to me that the wireless connection may be …

sounds to me like either a driver problem or a hardware electrical fault. If device manager (with a restored driver) still cannot see the disk it sounds like hardware. Are all connections still in place, is the power supply providing volts at the disk drive, are the data cables secure? …

a bit of a guess but if the file that you are changing is one that affects the registry (or is called by the registry) it may be that this (the registry) is changing back to its file it can register as registry files (and internal registry changes) are not …

On some towers and some laptops there is a jumper on the mother board and removal of this jumper will bypass the bios password. Putting it back will reinstall it unless you change it once you get through!! m

I am sure that google might bring up some software for this but there is one way that I use fairly regulary! Using linux (via a boot cds or installed) there is an equivalent of file manager (forgoptten what it is called!) but that gives a very good picturesque layout …

I think you are absolutely right about where the mbr files are or not. It is worth using one of the partition disks to find out if the primary partition is marked as the boot partition. That is the first step to establish (or at least one and only one …

if you put in ram, and then go to bios and set the boot to a cd you could then put in a 'start up boot 'cd such as linux etc and restart and then you could have access to most of the computer.

agreed totally with ikunu, but you may ( if you really must) be able by digging around in the policy party of the users system to get that icon to appear but as Ikunu says you will be negating part of the reason for the guest account, which is to …

The speed of a computer is dependant on a number of things. Processor Memory Hard drive 16/32/64 bit and finally how clogged up it is. There are a number of speed up programs but generally speaking apart from overclocking the best way is to keep the machine lean and mean. …

yup, but to save waiting sometimes Vista drivers work in 7 and another alternative is to look for a 'lower' level driver (for a simpler camera for example) that is more generic, you may loose some facilities of the camera but it may work. M

You might try using a generic driver and there are plenty around to download. It will at least make the drive work if it is workable but it does sound as though there might be an electrical fault or connection problem. M

whilst the placing on a disk is of some importance and there are intelligent defragmentation programs that will put the most used programs at the front, for most computers that are modern the speed and set up on the hard disk are not very likely to bve noticed as a …

agreed but a passing comment: If you have a device (in my case nvidia) and it updates automatically it may be that when windows does its Microsoft updating it may say that it cannot update a certain device driver. In this case the MS soft ware did not recognise the …

fat 32 has limits on the size of individual files that is can save. (Video recorders though looking like ordinary drive are often formatted in a different format to cope with the huge size of files. You may need to use a different format on the external hard disk M

There have been a number of apparent hi jackings of accounts at MSN and hotmail. Users unable to access them (as if the passwords were changed but I agree it may be a deeper problem and the thread is not going any further! M

There are perhaps two underlying reasons for shut down. 1. obvious but I expect you've checked ALL the deliberate hibernation, sleep, turn off hard disk etc 2. Some component is overheating. it can be as simple as the power supply full of dust, it can be the computer is not …

I agree but it could be faulty power supply or ,overheating or software or hardware failure (intermittant) on the motherboard More info please M

certainly it sounds to me as though the boot sector on the hard disk is failing via grub. Windows uses its own boot called MBR (master boot record). and MBR wont really boot anything other than windows! Hence the windows repair will only put back the MBR and only give …

some older models of HP scanners although they have drivers are only drivers for older versions of windows (95 xp etc) These do not always work with win 7. solutions: Try using a vista driver they sometimes work! Try running the scanner in compatibility mode (ie win 78 pretends to …

backup refers to general backup of the data you have made. System backup is a microsoft backup that backs up the files of the system to run windows. M

have a look at 'drop box', not ideal but very effective. there is also a program called 'easysync' if you are no line all the time at both locations. M

I would suggest a few options. After a system restore it puts the registry back as it was at the 'restore' point. that full working registry may not be able to respond to software that was added after the restore point (in your case the dsl drivers etc. You may …

It may be that I am teaching egg sucking, but if the only program causing the problem now is excel... have you by chance set the print area in excel to be outside the printable area or vice versa? Sorry if this is too obvious but I often forget it! …

one or two things .... when computers slow down or dont work continuously thre can be many reasons: 1. It could be tha the ISP is doing maintenace or having problems 2. It could be that your router needs to be rebooted as well as the computer. 3. It could …

have you tried 'godmode' use of control panel , it works well! M ps use to google to find it and download and run.

rebooting wont destroy files. more information needed. Laptops often overeat and need time to cool down before working, again. screen blinking and freezing canbe a sign of overhaet (or many other things viruses, failing screen, failing chips, bad memory ...) but my suspiscion is cool everythning (I have siuggested to …

have u tried ompltey removng th bttery and then pushing the smlll reset button hiddin on hteback of the machine. make sure you have main/ transformer plugged n on restart? M

you could keep both and have dual boot by just installing windows and tehngrub (the boot manager of linux) will cope and let you choose which to boot at boot up! M

Take care here! I had a bad time with an external drive as it said it was all singing all dancing with its own 'filoing' system software to make it easy to use! In fact I needed a 'virgin' external USB hard drivce as I was going to use it …

if it is just the shift key (there are two, one at either end of the keyboard so use the other one!) alternatively swap for a key that is not used (eg print screen or a - minus sign as there are two of those.) you will need to be …

you could also uninstal the game and then restore the computer to a time (using the restore facility) when it was working. that will replace the drivers. M

I have had a similiar problem with an old compaq and eventually found that somle of the hardware is incompatible with SP3. It jusrt would not boot! So on reformat and going back to XP but not installing sp3 it worked. Since then I have moved on that ma

agree with above but it is worth trying vista drivers as well. M

it is worth looking up on google if you are talking about the backing up of start up disks. If you are trying to do a back up to an external disk windows 7 home edition premium will not do an internal backup to an external disk. you will nee …

clicking in th hard disk is usually a sign that it is hitting the 'end stops' after the head has traversed the disk. it sounds to me as if the bios is not detecting autmaticvally the correct type of hard disk and is reporting the wrong number of cylinders / …

it would seem to me to be a problem with the hard disk internal electronics and particularly the chips that deal with the addressing facilities on the disk surface. as the same problem arises on differing OS / machines I suspect you will need special equipment and tech expertise to …

Trey google! There are a number of formats (high level) for both DVDs and Hard disks. Windows is restricted in reading some formats directly and you may need a third party software like Nero or partition manager to actually read what type of format is being used. <If you venture …