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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
I've PM'd you the results of the tracert. Most of the 30 lines showed 'Request timed out' but 3 of them had some details in.

The XP machine is running XP Home edition.

The Printer is Hewlett Packard Deskjet 970Cxi. Pretty sure it doesn't have an ethernet port.

Thanks very much by the way for all these suggestions of things to try!

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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
No, we gave up!

If you have any suggestions, I'm still listening!!

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Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
How am I going to open e-mail attachments, once my 25 'gratis' Microsoft Office uses are gone? I'm down to 1. I don't want to buy M'oft Ofice, since I have very nice Open Office. I can't find an option where I can choose how to open attachments.

Am I going to have to use another email as my default? I'd rather not, if I can help it.

Thanks, Pearlie

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Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
How am I going to open e-mail attachments, once my 25 'gratis' Microsoft Office uses are gone? I'm down to 1. I don't want to buy M'oft Ofice, since I have very nice Open Office. I can't find an option where I can choose how to open attachments.

Am I going to have to use another email as my default? I'd rather not, if I can help it.

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Anybody got problems with BBC Listen Again on the web?

For a week or two, numerous programmes on 'Listen Again' e.g. for Radio 4 and BBC7 keep being interrupted at irregular intervals, sometimes for a second or two, sometimes for several minutes. I've experienced this with literally a dozen or so broadcasts now. Additionally, when I try the 'Listen Again' feature repeatedly, the gaps and stuttering always appear at the very same time and place, so I suspect it must be on the Beeb's side.

I have e-mailed Radio 4 Technical Support, but haven't had a reply yet.

I imagine these are ongoing problems as they're trying to transfer all programmes, streaming or on demand ('Listen Again') to the utterly poorly designed 'BBC iPlayer'...

Anyone got similar problems? Thanks.

[ETA: I seems that these gaps also now appear in streaming radio broadcasts, but only with the Beeb, as right now on Radio 4. Lots of other stations I receive without the slightest problem. And my broadband speed is rather high really.)

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Anybody got problems with BBC Listen Again on the web? [...] yadda yadda [...]

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Despite running pretty fast and fairly reliable cable broadband, I still find my self reverting to the "dial-up" option, (small link at bottom of window.) It lacks some of the features, but has a more reliable out-put.

Perhaps we should start complaining that the BBC is producing content that can only be reliably accessed by a minority.

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I've just tried this option, R.A.M., thanks for that. Should there by lower sound quality? I haven't noticed then.

However, even with your suggestion, some Listen Again programmes still get interrupted at the same place, as mentioned earlier.

You might wanna try if it's got a gap too with you, e.g. in Thursday's (4 September) 'Bleak Expectations' episode, starting at 12:03 until 12:32, and some shorter stops earlier and later, like from 17:16 to 17:20. (Direct link here - NOTE: Opens BBC iPlayer!)

Thanks for your thought and investigation. I'll keep trying too. Strange, all this.

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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
My dad, who is in his eighties having gotten his first PC in his late seventies, has been flummoxed by a seeming take-over bid by Outlook Express for his e-mail software needs. He had gotten used to the format that ATT (his server) has used for the last couple of years. Then suddenly yesterday a pop-up popped up asking if he wanted Outlook Express as his default e-mail handler. He said he saw no option for declining; he couldn't find a way to close the pop-up so he pushed something and now he's stuck with his e-mail going to this Microsoft pirate.

I wish I had been there to see what he was up against. He's pretty sharp, but computer vocabulary is still pretty much a foreign language to him (as it is pretty much to me) and I don't know exactly what happened.

Anyway, what I'd really like to know from you fine, experienced folks is how we can get his e-mail setting off Outlook Express and back to the ATT format. And I'm afraid the explanation needs to be as novice-friendly as possible.

Thanks much.

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I took Jengie Jon's advice and looked in the Control Panel for e-mail or internet settings. The weird thing was that Outlook Express was not the default setting for handling e-mail but was something called "Current Setting" or something like, so I'm still not sure why it suddenly switched to Outlook Express. Anyway I finally wound up resetting O.E. to send a copy of the e-mail to the server's e-mail page (yes, Dad was just looking at his e-mail on his server's site). All the saved e-mail that Outlook Ex. snatched would have to individually forwarded to the server for it all to be gathered in one place again.

We still have outlook Express as a depository of Dad's saved e-mail; now the problem is that we can't open any of the attachments that came with the saved e-mails on O.E. I click on the little paperclips and that doesn't work. I pulled down the file/edit/tool functions- nada about opening attachments. I open the e-mails themselves and there is nothing within them that is clickable. Has Dad lost all his attachments? Any ideas?

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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
OK here's a new challenge for the geeks. A home network problem.

Before we recently installed a wireless router (to provide a connection for my new laptop) we had (and still have) a 4 port wired modem/router, which also has a USB connection. All 5 connections were in use - the USB connected it to the oldest PC which runs Win98, and the 4 Ethernet ports connected to two PCs running WinXP , one PC running Vista, and a Microsoft XBox360. (Yes I know thats an awful lot of computers for one family...) The printer is connected to the Win 98 PC (via USB) and in the original set up it was possible to print from the Win98 PC and also from the two XP machines. (Never managed to get network printing working for Vista with this setup, but that's irrelevant to my current problem)

The wireless router now resides between the wired router and one of the XP machines, connected to both via ethernet. Since installing this wireless router it has not been possible for that XP machine to print, using the network printer described above.

Should it be possible to configure it to do so (I've tried the obvious), and if so please can someone talk me through it.

For bonus points if anyone knows whether Vista PC's should be able to access a network printer attached to a Win98 machine, I would also be interested in how that should be set up. It would save my son having to save his homework on a memory stick, then having to plug it into the ancient slow Win98 machine to print his work!!

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Originally posted by Padre Joshua:
Ok, here's a challenge for you:

Several years ago, I purchased an old Compaq Presario laptop to use for typing school reports, etc. It has a CD-ROM, a 3.5" floppy, and a modem, but no USB or eithernet ports. It does have a slot for a PCI card. It runs Windows 98 (Not SE). I cannot get either of my two PCI network cards to work on this computer because the drivers are for 98SE, and this is the older version.

The problem is that I have quite a few files that I want off of that hard drive before it finally dies. However, my new PC doesn't have a 3.5" floppy drive. Because the PCI cards won't work, I cannot connect the older computer to the network. I haven't used a dial-up ISP since '00 or '01, so I think using the modem is out.

I performed surgery a few minutes ago and determined that the hard drive will not plug into my desktop because the wiring is different. The serial bus is too small for the desktop, and the power plugs are different as well.

Ideas?

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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
Umm - it sounds as though you'd be best placed removing the wired router, replacing it with the wireless one, getting a basic wired hub, a USB dongle (maybe) for the W98 box - or put an Ethernet card into the W98 machine.

That way, you won't have two DHCP servers and two firewalls in the way.

Alex

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Buy or borrow a 3.5in USB floppy drive. Job done.

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Or borrow an external Iomega ZIP drive with parallel connection, for the bigger files. That's how I transferred up to 250MB at a time on ZIP disks from a Win95 pre-USB to a new machine.

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Originally posted by Ariel:

Also, where can I find a list of programs that are loaded at startup - I want it not to load programs (like QuickTime) which I almost never use. I know there's a list somewhere, but I can't find it.

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Originally posted by Jahlove:
Not a very high-grade problem but I have

*Do you want to be notified by email when someone sends you a private message?*

checked in my Ship profile but I no longer get a notification in my private e-mail.

I was using Thunderbird (having screwed up the *Mail* function that came pre-installed on my previous e-mac on account of being a techno-dummy) and it was ok on that. (Message notification came through on *Mail* before that unfortunate incident as well.) Now I'm on an Intel i-mac which also has pre-installed *Mail* and it's stopped working. I checked the ISP's mail server to see if it had identified Ship PMs as spam but that is not the case.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
Thanks very much. Yes, I've defragged the hard drive, and removed a couple of GB of graphics files and other things, and it still takes about 6 mins to boot up.

(For some reason it insists on loading Word every time it boots up, which seems to take it a little while. I don't know why. I don't particularly want it to, but I upgraded to Win XP SP2 recently and I suppose this is just one of the things it does.)

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Originally posted by Pheonix:
Take a look on your Start menu under Programs and startup. Is there anything in that menu there?

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Take a look on your Start menu under Programs and startup. Is there anything in that menu there?

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Yes, among other things, it says Microsoft Office - hmm, I hadn't noticed that before. Am I safe to delete that?

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No, they always took up to a couple of hours to run and slowed the computer to a crawl so I stopped using them. I now have AVG which is supposed to find that sort of thing when it does its scan. (Of course no two anti-spyware programs ever find exactly the same things...)

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That should just be either the office toolbar or a little helper.

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Originally posted by Sparrow:
Does anyone know anything about XP Service Pack 3 - is it absolutely necessary, are there any known problems after installing it?

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Originally posted by Pheonix:
Have you tried turning it back to the old version of facebook? I'm guessing you've just been using internet explorer? Tried using firefox?

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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
That seems a bit pointless though when they're switching over to the new version and thats the one most peeps are using.

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Originally posted by babybear:
I am looking for some fairly simple help. I am using Excel 2003, and I would like to sum up column C (cells C2-C9) and put the answer in C10. Then I would like to sum D2-D9, and put the answer in D10.

Next I would like to sum C2 and D2 -> E2,
C3 + D3 = E3

etc.

I can't remember how to do this. Could someone give me a prod in the right direction please?

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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Um, I think you just select the cells, click the "sigma" symbol, and it will plonk the answer in the cell immediately below the column. You can cut and paste this anywhere. If you select columns crosswise, it will place it in the next one to the right, I think.

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Originally posted by Sparrow:
A real idiot's question this one. I have a lot of music on my PC that I have copied off of CDs, now given away. If I want to burn some of the tracks on to another CD for listening on a hi fi system, what format do the tracks have to be in?

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