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Thanks for your reply and suggestions. It does take quite an effort to wind in and as I am getting on in years it is a bit of a problem. I have tried it with my heavy duty SDS drill and it just does not move it.

I have a patio awning which I would like to motorise. If this is not possible then I will consider buying a new one, however, it is fitted on a bungalow and would need to fix on the existing oak bearers. I have attached pictures of each end. If anyone can tell me what make it is I would...

My local milkman now supplies milk in returnable glass bottles. Costs a little more but saves plastic. My wife and I (and the dog) used to have 3 2litre plastic containers per week, now - none. If 2 people can save 3 plastic containers a week how much waste plastic would it save if the...

Thanks for the replies, Nice to here from you again Freddie, Looks like I will return to my original idea of rolling back the carpet when necessary as its at the end of a short corridor (outside of the airing cupboard if you remember that Freddie)

I am shortly having carpet fitted and in one small place I need to access underfloor occasionally. Is there any such thing as a premade trap that a piece of matching carpet can be inserted? I have asked the carpet suppliers but they cannot suggest anything. TIA

Try this: www.meteoradar.co.uk

Thanks to all for your help. XP and SP3 loaded OK but no joy with internet explorer, opera worked OK with external Wi-Fi adaptor but drivers for Wi-Fi etc would not load. Have now decided to clean hard drive again, reinstall win 7 and use virtual PC.

Update: the computer has not got IDE or legacy options, but has SATA, ATA, and disabled. Changed to ATA and so far (touch wood) XP install has got as far as formatting drive. Hopefully when this as finished all will be OK

Thanks for all the interest. For info the error number is: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D663C,0x0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000). I am currently doing a complete hard drive format, when that has finished I will try a clean install, If that fails, I will reinstall win7 and try virtual PC

Thanks for that suggestion, I should have thought about that

The reason for doing it is that computer is now unused and I have 2 programs which run on XP but not later, and it will cost several thousands to replace the software which is little used. I will post the error number tomorrow. Thanks for your interest.

An interesting addition to this, a new bypass was constructed recently near me and just before completion Natural England insisted on "Bat Bridges" across the highway at a cost to the taxpayers of £300,000. Strange, I thought bats could fly.

I have a Dell laptop running win7. I want to reformat the hard drive to install XP. When I run the XP install disc the programs load OK but before it gets to the drive select screen the ubiquitous blue screen appears. Any ideas? TIA

I have several copies of this on my notebook computer which are using valuable disc space. Can I delete them?

Thanks for the advice, Doggit, I've no problem with cables as I know where the are, I think possible one of the small circular saws will be best.

I need to cut chipboard flooring within 25 mm of wall. Sabre saw or Multitool? Advice please TIA

I see the new test is scrapping the 3 point turn and reversing around corner. This being replaced with driving INTO a parking space in a supermarket car park and reversing OUT. Surely this is the wrong way round. When reversing the front of the car must swing out, and in the narrow bays in the...

Interesting to note that the police have been granted a further 85k for the McCann search just as the tourist season starts in sunny Portugal.

Had a similar thing when I built a kitchen extension. We have an oil fired cooker/boiler which is open flued. The approved drawings showed an extraction fan in the kitchen. I had problems with the building inspector who insisted that the extraction fan must be fitted, I explained that a fan...

Most self employed seem to forget that when the latest increase starts they will cease to pay class 2, so the increase is far less than it appears and in some cases will decrease. (self employed for over 30 years in case you think its sour grapes)