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Great to see! Many thanks Speedy...good to have the detail and appreciate you posting it.

Ta Speedy.

I have this problem too but how do I ignore them except for de-selecting manually please ? ( as they keep down-loading themselves and set up the yellow alert in the turnoff button ).

Thanks for giving me such a clear and positive steer on the hardware Chill. There is just so much stuff available that the forward-compatible product sounds like a solid investment, and especially...

Yes I agree, Thanks linw. You make good points. I'll have to figure out ways to eliminate the other "suspects" and no doubt Telecom will have their procedures. In fact I went through a few before...

Thanks indeed for this idea bk T and I certainly will try to talk to Telecom to-morrow. I was wondering if I was expecting too much to stream BBC TV but the dropouts were happening even with email...

Oh yes!///forgot to mention this sorry.. we do use and need wireless in the house; actually the Thomson seems quite good at that bit, it is just the line dropping problem that is driving me near to...

Is it time to buy a good modem and if so what please?

We have a Telecom supplied Thomson wireless modem which is playing up after about 4 years use. Our area connection speed is good. The Thomson...

No you are not alone with this problem. We've also had a jump in volume.

Many thanks for ideas. I have downloaded onto a usb for the second time, fter running two microsoft fixit files for a second time. Maybe the previous file was faulty because this time around it has...

I am trying to help an elderly friend update her laptop running Vista basic and am having a dickens of a time trying to instal SP1 as she hasn't been updating automatically...got as far a SP1 and it...

Thanks for this info dugimodo; I appreciate the support..will get on with it and see what happens.

Thanks very much everyone. I'll have a look for the RMA, (???....better google that first ) on the manufactuer's website, then go from there a well as look at Active X..also new to me. I really...

My old hard drive was sounding a bit cranky so I tried to back up my operating system ( Vista )to a 90gb sshd through a cloning hub (All In 1 HDD Dock ). It put on the partitions on and then I could...

Thanks very much for such a detailed and helpful reply dugimodo; hadn't considered a tablet but it makes much sense. It is also useful to know about the screen size and to think about enquiring about...

If anyone can give some guidelines about what to look for and what to avoid in choosing an e reader for reading daily newspaper download and a few e books I should appreciate it. The recipient for...

Thanks Mike. i'm trying to get to grips with linux on an old laptop and this site looks useful.

Thanks very much Wainuitech.....and other responses too...all this is very helpful. Is anyone hanging out for such improvements in Windows 8?

I should have said at the outset that my version of Vista is Home Edition, (sorry for incomplete info ). Higher spec versions of Vista I believe will do backup of programmes and files....but not...

Thanks very much Gary67. I've seen other comments about the problems that happen when the restore is needed...hence my question. Your advice is appreciated.

Windows Vista does not offer a complete backup of programmes and files and I wonder what the educated thinking is now about the alternative backup programmes for a very moderate amount of backup...

The problem seems to have been corrupted Windows Vista files. Thanks to all for help. I did a temporary instal of Linux Mint and immediately had sound. sfc/scannow found some unrepairable errors so...

Further to my original post, I have got nowhere with all the fixes I have tried but at least was finally able to do a reasonable restore through Safe mode. The system repair utility says it can't...

You guys are great! thank you so much for your sound advice..thought it was a bit too promising and got bailed out before any commitment...am running Vista..all up-to-date with updates but can't ...

Does anyone have any good advice about any good (free) programmes that will check and update drivers automatically please? There seem tobe any army of free driver checkers but they inevitably involve...