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I have now downloaded the Windows 7 RTM from the MS site three times, none of which has resulted in any file that can be recognised being placed on my PC. The download is very large and takes about 30 min. It downloads no problem but then after its done the message “fatal error” is displayed...

I was yesterday refreshing my memory of some old Star Trek films and wondered what the term “star date 200.100” or whatever referred to or meant. Even stranger the site I used to view the film http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/4/2352 I have never encountered before nor was any payment asked...

Downloaded the latest updates from Microsoft tonight now my MSN premium account takes ten minutes to log in and email is totally inaccessible, Any ideas anyone? :cry:

Anyone know of any antivirus product that works with Vista? :suprised: :suprised:

Anyone having problems with IE7 and logging into routers, as I can’t now log into mine, had to downgrade to IE6 then all is ok? :eek:

Along time ago in a galaxy far far away a small boy, intimidated by his parents, decided he was only going to be a part-time member of his family and that he was going on a long summer vacation to a planet where all were equal and the sun shone all the time and happiness and peace prevailed...

Windows Defender beta 2, Has anyone using this product ever detected anything as I’ve had it on my machine now for over a month during which time its done absolutely nothing whilst Spybot, Adaware and Spyware Doctor are detecting things all over the place. Or is it just me. :suprised:

I’ve been mostly looking at Microsoft Access this week in its Office 2007? incarnation. I wonder now if it has a place here any more for it appears that most corporate users I know use Excel when they should be using Access even though on occasion they are using Access but don’t know it...

Just had this error message thrown at me as I searched another board! :yowch: :) :)

Does anyone know where I can get the small utility that removes all Symantec registry entries for their products? This used to be on their site but appears to have been removed as I can’t find it. Problem: - Uninstalled Norton System works from my son’s machine but can’t remove Live...

Any one got any info on this app?

I have a Netgear DG834 ADSL modem router and a software firewall installed on all the machines on the network. I notice that on the Netgear site that they do not recommend this. The software firewall is Kaspersky and appeared to work o.k. but I have just un-installed it, appears not have made...

I’m getting the error “Can’t Collect Information” via the Windows Instrumentation process, via msinfo32.exe which has all its services running. This seems to have coincided with a dramatic slow down in my 2meg Internet connection (50kb on average) and I problem with the Windows update service...

Every time I try to post a new thread the message “This is a duplicate posted in the last five minutes” or similar pops up, any ideas?

I’ve just downloaded a programme called LANguard Network Security Scanner looks pretty good to me as it resolved my network problems. Anyone used this before? :) :) :)

I’m getting “cannot flush ARP cache” errors on my small home network, anyone know how to resolve the issue and yes I’ve been to the “six best ways” that appear on the Google search, none are any good except one which re-sets all connections using the command line, but I can’t remember the...

I’ve been developing applications since Access 1 hit the streets. Can anyone tell me why I should now throw away just about all these years of learning and start walking down the .NET and C# or VB.NET path? All the bumph I’ve received from MS tend to make me believe that VB is about to be...

Well almost! Did you know that you can obtain a three month (90 day) evaluation of Windows Server 2003 free from Microsoft? I have downloaded it and whilst it’s not as pretty as XP, is sure a more stable development environment. I have not a single issue with it so far. :) :) :cool:

Critical Update for windows XP (KB8856216). Anyone had any problems with this update which was automatically downloaded and keeps crashing my machine which was working perfectly before? :mad:

Windows Restore!! On all the occasions I have attempted to use this useless utility sine the arrival of XP it has failed and this is at least now a dozen occasions. The latest failure (tonight) involved the install of e-mule 0.44b build 2 which removed my ADSL modem drivers completely. Even a...