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Good choice! Personally my brain cell can only cope with a browser with one menu! :)

Have a look at Chromium, which is where Chrome comes from. SRWare Iron is a good one to check out. Basically Chrome without the Google snooping.

My, admittedly old, experience with roaming profiles, was that they sounded great, until the users stuffed too much in them, and waited forever for logon's and logoff's, as the LAN struggled to cope with dragging those Megs (or worse) around the place. Maybe they got a lot better now, but I...

I bored him to death! :D

Oh yeh, forgot to say, if anything is a problem, I'd bet on your accountancy software, don't know what it is but it's the most likely to be am issue. that said w7 doesn't do badly on this count, and there's also a free XP virtual machine that integrates well, and runs a lot of XP stuff that W7...

Wow! I thought my replies were long! :D Sorry, I'm so used to working on compaq/hp laptops I forgot this could be a desktop. The only real difference IME, is that desktops tend to have more standard well known components that you are likely to find drivers for, though this can't be...

Well, I can only give my opinion, and while I've been into IT proffesionally for twenty years (not a novice), I still only have my perspective (& I get it wrong sometimes! :) ). When I first tried W7, I fully expected to put XP back on after, but not used XP since, and I never looked back...

Sorry, double post! (oops!)

That's.. exactly what a just said, with a lot more pointless words and recommending single-bus adapters. Apologies then, I misinterpreted what you wrote, it wasn't meant as a criticism.

Sometimes a BSOD can just be a damaged or missing driver file, and this can be fixed quite quickly if you can ID it. It's worth googling the stop code and looking for a file name in the BSOD details too.

If laptop is SATA, then you can put the laptops drive in the 2.5" SATA usb enclosure, plug straight into PC, and access disk to backup data that way, and then return drive to laptop, to save buying extra drive (though an extra drive gives you a usb backup drive for future use too). If laptop is...

Prentice, don't take this to heart if you are interested in Win7. I have run Win7 on older hardware than this with the same amount of ram, and it worked better than XP! (just used for Office and Internet though! - no 3D games!!!). Your Compaq is actually a good candidate as they used quality...

Another nice option to mange this principle, but over the internet, effectively accessing your files from any PC with internet access, is to use a product like dropbox (google it), which gives you a 2 Gig storage area (for the free version) on an internet server, fully encrypted, which can be...

I suspect that this is actually 0211, not o211? At what point does it give this message, in the pre-windows bios boot screen? Desktop PC or laptop? Is your keyboard plugged in correctly? Is it PS2 or USB? Can you go into your CMOS setup (before windows starts to load), and if so...

This is actually a very good point. Recommending Google Chrome means that your are directing people to an application that also provides Google with data relating to your use of it, for their benefit. Nothing wrong with that as such, as long as you know it does that, and what the data is...

I am assuming that you are getting what is called 'the blue screen of death', where the computer suddenly switches to an all blue screen with chunky white text, usually showing a set of hex numbers (often look like: '0xB00003F2', or similar) and a limited description, sometimes specifying a file...

I really don't know, other to that it has been occurring for quite a long time (I've had so little spare cash, I couldn't even consider doing anything), and yet has seemed to be very constant, hardly changing or getting worse, which I would expect if it was constant mechanical wear. There again...

Well, it's most odd (to an ignoramous like me), if I drive to work by my normal route, as long as there is no significant delay, it will start to stutter, and soon stall (around 30 mins), at very close to the same time very consistantly. But if I say have a 5/10 minute queue (roadworks, say), it...

Thanks Burnerman, the guy did say it was a guess (diagnosis and price), and I did pressure him a little so he may have been worried about under quoting and then banging a higher price on me later, and he did quote what seemed a very reasonable price for other work. I have good reason to believe...

Can anyone advise please? I have a VW Polo 1.2, 07 reg. It's is running with poor performance (especially acceleration), and after a short while (30mins if not held up in traffic, sooner if going very slow) the engine cuts out - stutters at first, then fails completely within a minute or...