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Quote by blueocean_041
No problem and thanks for the attempt. I just looked at Microsofts help site (Now there's a contradiction in terms rolleyes) and it seems like removing the IDE cable is my only option whilst she is here. At least I know that if it's not connected she can't access it. cool
Carl

Thats what I was gonna suggest!
Either that, or pull a mains fuse, light some candles, and tell sproglet theres a power cut. :smug:
blueocean_041
Warming the Bed
Quote by winchwench
No problem and thanks for the attempt. I just looked at Microsofts help site (Now there's a contradiction in terms rolleyes) and it seems like removing the IDE cable is my only option whilst she is here. At least I know that if it's not connected she can't access it. cool
Carl

Thats what I was gonna suggest!
Either that, or pull a mains fuse, light some candles, and tell sproglet theres a power cut. :smug:
I like the way you're thinking lol but as it's her first visit in 11 years I'd better make it a good one. I can be mean later when I've lulled her into a false sense of security smile
Carl :twisted:
garydanne
Sexpert
Hi smile ......
You are right the best way to keep your drive safe is to pull the IDE or SATA lead. There are all sorts of ways to access files on other drives.......Also your favourites and any photos or vids are not safe.....Depends how determined she is :)....Get them on a memory stick......export your favourites so you can restore them when she is gone....
Cheers Gary
garydanne
Sexpert
Here's a tip for the more adventurous smile....
Copy Error Messages To Clipboard
What’s the first thing you do when you see a baffling error message in Windows? If you are anything like me you’ll pick out the keywords and look it up on Google. That’s fine when it’s something simple but all too often error messages are long-winded and contain lots of gibberish, which are a pain to type into the search box The temptation, is to try and copy and paste the message, but you will find that this doesn’t work as you can’t highlight the words in an error box, but there is another way.
Here’s a nifty little tweak that I came across the other day on From Windows 2k onwards you have been able to copy the text in error messages to the Windows Clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C, but Microsoft forgot to tell anyone. So the next time you get an indecipherable error message, just press Ctrl + C then open Notepad, WordPad, Word etc and press Ctrl + V, then you can highlight the text, and use it to search for a solution.
Borrowed from another site obviously :)
Cheers Gary xx
Tan____Kinky
Sex God
My dad has brought his lappy down for me to take to a shop to get fixed before i do that just wondered if it is summit silly, the dvd/disk drive opens insert disk but nothing happens go into my computer click on it and its empty so basically its not picking up any disks. Anything else i can try before paying pc repair prices?
garydanne
Sexpert
Quote by TanKinky
My dad has brought his lappy down for me to take to a shop to get fixed before i do that just wondered if it is summit silly, the dvd/disk drive opens insert disk but nothing happens go into my computer click on it and its empty so basically its not picking up any disks. Anything else i can try before paying pc repair prices?

Hi smile.....
Ok first thing I would do is put a cleanin cd thru it...just to rule out a dirty lens.....secondly does the drive show up in "my computer"?? and does it spin up when you put a disc in it??...new laptop drives are relatively cheap depending on the age and model of machine....they are only held in by one screw normally and that is under the keyboard....it could be that the drive has simply died....or that the lens is out of cal which normally means the same end result....fingers crossed its just a mucky lens....
Cheers Gary xxx
Tan____Kinky
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Quote by gary-danne
My dad has brought his lappy down for me to take to a shop to get fixed before i do that just wondered if it is summit silly, the dvd/disk drive opens insert disk but nothing happens go into my computer click on it and its empty so basically its not picking up any disks. Anything else i can try before paying pc repair prices?

Hi smile.....
Ok first thing I would do is put a cleanin cd thru it...just to rule out a dirty lens.....secondly does the drive show up in "my computer"?? and does it spin up when you put a disc in it??...new laptop drives are relatively cheap depending on the age and model of machine....they are only held in by one screw normally and that is under the keyboard....it could be that the drive has simply died....or that the lens is out of cal which normally means the same end result....fingers crossed its just a mucky lens....
Cheers Gary xxx

There is no spinning of the disk when you insert it, tried a cleanng disk the drive shows up in my computer but when ya click on it its empty looks like a new drive then? will take it to the shop cheers
garydanne
Sexpert
Oh well worth a try.....hope it gets sorted.....
Gary xxx
Tan____Kinky
Sex God
Quote by gary-danne
Oh well worth a try.....hope it gets sorted.....
Gary xxx

Done for £10 and fixed while i was there so not to bad!
garydanne
Sexpert
Great stuff what did they do???
Gary xx
Tan____Kinky
Sex God
Quote by gary-danne
Great stuff what did they do???
Gary xx

put a new combi? drive in
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Hi Gary and first of all thanks for offering yr services to us all on here..i for one appreciate what yr doing, regardless of whether you can help me or not!
My problem is a SH/Chatroom problem and am not sure if you can help me!
Its the same old problem - When i first enter the room, I say 1 or at the most 2 lines of chat and all fine then the chat freezes in the whole of the room (everyones chat that is) and then when I type nothing comes up (but i can see the chat in whispers but no one else can!!)
I have raised this on the forum b4 and i have downloaded adobe again and again and agian.....but the same old problem occurs!!
Can you help me
Many thanks
Toni xx
garydanne
Sexpert
Ok first of all are you running firefox?? if not why not?? smile.....secondly try shutting down all non essential progs and uninstalling any you dont use any more....am guessing this is some kind of conflict....but I could be wrong I often am :)....is it time to restore your pc to its original settings??.... a good cure but always a last resort....as all the backing up takes ages....still thinking as I write this :)....to be continued lol ....wouldnt do any harm to ask the sh site experts as well :)
Cheers Gary xx
P.s ty for the kind words ....
Tan____Kinky
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Quote by gary-danne
A happy ending smile
Gary xx

Yup thanks kiss
Peanut
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Quote by sexy_Toni62
Hi Gary and first of all thanks for offering yr services to us all on here..i for one appreciate what yr doing, regardless of whether you can help me or not!
My problem is a SH/Chatroom problem and am not sure if you can help me!
Its the same old problem - When i first enter the room, I say 1 or at the most 2 lines of chat and all fine then the chat freezes in the whole of the room (everyones chat that is) and then when I type nothing comes up (but i can see the chat in whispers but no one else can!!)
I have raised this on the forum b4 and i have downloaded adobe again and again and agian.....but the same old problem occurs!!
Can you help me
Many thanks
Toni xx

Some of these symptoms could possibly be the result of an older or less well specified PC struggling a bit. So out of interest do you know how much memory you have in your computer and what speed processor you have? presumably you're running Windows XP?
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i am using Firefox........
Unknown User
Quote by Peanut
Hi Gary and first of all thanks for offering yr services to us all on here..i for one appreciate what yr doing, regardless of whether you can help me or not!
My problem is a SH/Chatroom problem and am not sure if you can help me!
Its the same old problem - When i first enter the room, I say 1 or at the most 2 lines of chat and all fine then the chat freezes in the whole of the room (everyones chat that is) and then when I type nothing comes up (but i can see the chat in whispers but no one else can!!)
I have raised this on the forum b4 and i have downloaded adobe again and again and agian.....but the same old problem occurs!!
Can you help me
Many thanks
Toni xx

Some of these symptoms could possibly be the result of an older or less well specified PC struggling a bit. So out of interest do you know how much memory you have in your computer and what speed processor you have? presumably you're running Windows XP?
Hi there thanks but my pc is 3 yrs old, only used about 1 quarter of the total memory and yes i am on windows xp!!
Toni
foxylady2209
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The c key on my laptop sticks - not every time, but often enough to annoy the hell out of me. I spilt coffee on the keyboard ages ago and it took ages for all the button to work, and the worst was the q,a,z, etc.
All seemed well until a few weeks ago and the c got lazy.
Is it ok to prise the button off? I've done it on normal keyboards but obviously laptop keyboards are integral so I'm not sure.
Peanut
Sex God
Quote by sexy_Toni62
Hi there thanks but my pc is 3 yrs old, only used about 1 quarter of the total memory and yes i am on windows xp!!
Toni

A quarter of how much? To run XP effectively you need at least 512Mb ideally 1Gb. If you only have 256Mb then it will most likely chug a bit, especially if you have a slow processor like a Celeron or a Sempron/Duron. Adobe Flash applications such as the chatroom can be more resource intensive than a lot of people imagine, especially when it's running inside the memory space of your web browser.
Peanut
Sex God
Quote by foxylady2209
The c key on my laptop sticks - not every time, but often enough to annoy the hell out of me. I spilt coffee on the keyboard ages ago and it took ages for all the button to work, and the worst was the q,a,z, etc.
All seemed well until a few weeks ago and the c got lazy.
Is it ok to prise the button off? I've done it on normal keyboards but obviously laptop keyboards are integral so I'm not sure.

It depends on the laptop. Some of them just flick out whole, whereas some have keyboards where you can prise out the individual keys.
If you're not sure use a damp q-tip to see if you can clean between the keys. A coffee spill (especially if you take sugar in your coffee) will definitely gum up the works!
helnheaven
Sex God
Quote by Peanut

Hi there thanks but my pc is 3 yrs old, only used about 1 quarter of the total memory and yes i am on windows xp!!
Toni

A quarter of how much? To run XP effectively you need at least 512Mb ideally 1Gb. If you only have 256Mb then it will most likely chug a bit, especially if you have a slow processor like a Celeron or a Sempron/Duron. Adobe Flash applications such as the chatroom can be more resource intensive than a lot of people imagine, especially when it's running inside the memory space of your web browser.
A what er ron??
I soooo wish I was clever rolleyes lol
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Quote by foxylady2209
The c key on my laptop sticks - not every time, but often enough to annoy the hell out of me. I spilt coffee on the keyboard ages ago and it took ages for all the button to work, and the worst was the q,a,z, etc.
All seemed well until a few weeks ago and the c got lazy.
Is it ok to prise the button off? I've done it on normal keyboards but obviously laptop keyboards are integral so I'm not sure.

I have lazy I's rolleyes
garydanne
Sexpert
Spray air and a small paint brush work wonders on most keyboards.....
Misskitty_2008
Sex God
I cam be in the middle of something, and all of a sudden I get a pop up box saying my modem is invalid.. I am with 3 mobile broadband. It seems to be ok, but have problems connecting sometimes..
Any ideas??
ps thanks for the link!! kiss
garydanne
Sexpert
Quote by Misskitty_2008
I cam be in the middle of something, and all of a sudden I get a pop up box saying my modem is invalid.. I am with 3 mobile broadband. It seems to be ok, but have problems connecting sometimes..
Any ideas??
ps thanks for the link!! kiss

Hi....smile...
Link below is to a thread of people with the same problem.....unplugging and restarting is the answer...

Also to insert a link into a reply on here.....just copy and paste web address into reply....then highlight it and click "url".....
Cheers Gary xxx
Freckledbird
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Quote by gary-danne
Also to insert a link into a reply on here.....just copy and paste web address into reply....then highlight it and click "url".....
Cheers Gary xxx

Just copy the web address and paste it. No need to click URL even, if you just want the link to look like the one you posted above. You only have to muck about with it when you want to replace the web address with words, like this:
Peanut
Sex God
Quote by Freckledbird

Also to insert a link into a reply on here.....just copy and paste web address into reply....then highlight it and click "url".....
Cheers Gary xxx

Just copy the web address and paste it. No need to click URL even, if you just want the link to look like the one you posted above. You only have to muck about with it when you want to replace the web address with words, like this:

phpBB2 forum software (on which this board is based) auto recognises URLs that begin either with http:// or www. (as you can see the software thinks these are web addresses) so the URL tag isn't really required.
It is required though for linking some text as FB did or for links that don't follow the standard format, e.g.