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Snapped this in Amsterdam a few years ago

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Probably a daft question! Would I need some sort of mounting kit to fit these in a laptop?

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This is probably not relevant but maybe worth a mention. A couple of years ago my VW suddenly decided not to start and the AA bloke (who had fortunately previously worked for VW) fiddled around for a couple of minutes and then asked if I had a spare key. Spare key worked fine! Apparently there is a transponder (whatever that is) built into the key which had failed. Worth a try if your car uses a key rather than the later extremely insecure systems which seem to be prevalent now.

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Woke up to about 2 1/2 inches of the white stuff on the ground this morning (Solihull) and it doesn’t show any signs of going away yet.

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Hi John.  I’ve just tried this and it works OK! You control the locked file with the batch file – when you lock it the Locker actually becomes hidden (until you unlock it again!)

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/password-protect-folder-windows-10

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Yes – felt it here (Solihull). Very slight though.

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It’s worth remembering that genuine Paypal emails will always address you by name eg Dear Jo Bloggs. Scams usually start with Dear Paypal User, Dear Customer, etc.

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Have had this problem several times. Try washing the CD in lukewarm water with a drop of washing up liquid added. Rinse well and make sure it’s dry before trying again!

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I had 2 accounts with AOL which were deleted without warning ‘due to inactivity of more than 90 days’. If they had given me advance warning (on my main account) I could have retrieved the old emails but now they are lost and gone forever. Very annoying and a black mark for AOL!

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Maybe it’s just a typo but aren’t LAN addresses normally 192.168.x.xxx not 192.168.1xx.x?

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Hi Craig. My daughter had a similar problem a couple of years ago. PC couldn’t access the disk at all. However I was able to recover all her files using Hirens Boot CD (v15.2), saved to a CD (there are USB versions as well). http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download. After booting the PC from the disk, choose Mini XP (for some reason you have to do it twice). You should then get a typical XP desktop with several icons. Select HBCD and Browse Folder. This will tell you if the file structure is still intact. Note the drive letters will be different from normal. Then its just a matter of copying each folder to another drive. You may have to click on ‘Install All Hardware’ if you can’t see the drive you wish to copy to. A bit slow and laborious but in my case it worked! John

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Looks like you’re in ‘single click’ mode. In File explorer go into File Options and in the ‘General’ tab – ‘Click Items as Follows’ select ‘Double Click to Open an Item’.

Edit – Sorry EdP you must have replied whilst I was typing!

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Have a look at VideoPad  http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

I have used it once (my only attempt at video editing) and found it easier than WMM!

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Sorry – it’s barely visible!

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Have you tried disconnecting all drives except the HDD (ie CD/DVD, card reader etc)? Otherwise I’d suspect the PSU.

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Ed P wrote:

transitioned across with a post-graduate course in full-blown Chemical Engineering.

Interesting point there EdP. I started a Chem Eng course in Manchester in 1960. During the first year we had a works visit to ICI at Runcorn. A massive place. They took us into the sodium store where you could hardly breathe for the fumes; that put me off  for a start (perhaps health and safety has improved since then). I then asked how many Chemical Engineers they employed…….ONE! As there were 120 in my year I decided that the chances of getting a good job may be fairly remote so I switched to Elec Eng! Turned out to be a good move.

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I have installed a program called CryptoPrevent (free version) which is designed to protect against ransomware. See https://www.foolishit.com/cryptoprevent-malware-prevention. (Don’t be put off by the web address). I have not noticed any adverse effects like slowing the PC down although it’s impossible to say whether it works or not until it doesn’t!

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Whilst agreeing with some of the points made by other members, I still think that if you’re happy with the present behaviour of the PC you should think twice about a fresh install. Certainly if you’re doing a complete reinstall from scratch the OS won’t (or shouldn’t!) take long, but getting your applications reinstalled and all the settings and preferences back to your liking can be a real pain. If you take that route make sure you have backed up everything you may need – some items such as Microsoft Templates and Thunderbird settings are hidden away in AppData/Roaming and can easily get forgotten and if you use Picasa to view your photos make sure you have saved the hidden picasa.ini file in each folder as this holds any changes you have made to the view of your pics. Personally I’d just do a Disk Cleanup (in your C: drive properties) and give Ccleaner a whirl.

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