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FAQS! FACTS! FAX! 251 (22/02/01)
Q
M. Fraser is justifiably annoyed by his
Packard Bell registration screen (Removing the bludgeon, F!F!F! 8th February).
Packard Bell have even taken the trouble to disguise this cheeky scheme in a
hidden file called nagger.exe. For the benefit of frustrated Packard Bell
owners everywhere, here is the cure. You need to edit the registry. Use Start
and Run, then type in regedit and click OK. Use Edit and Find, then type in
nagger.exe and click OK. Right-click on the nagger.exe item, select Delete and
answer Yes. Close regedit, reboot and ...hooray! No bludgeon!
Jonathan Berber
A
Thanks on behalf of Packard Bell owners
everywhere
Q
In Word (Office 2000) I can get one half, one
quarter and three quarters to appear in fraction format. The ticked "Fractions with fraction
character"box in AutoCorrect tells it to. But why won't it do the same for any other fraction?
I'd like to write eleven nineteenths like that, for instance.
Peter King
A
It can be done but you'd be lucky to find any
mention of it in Help. Proceed as follows: on the Insert menu select Field,
highlight Equations and Formulas in the Categories window, then EQ in the Field
Names window. EQ appears below in 'Field Code' now enter the following
'\f(a,b)', omitting the inverted commas where 'a' is the numerator (i.e. the 11
in your example) and 'b' the denominator (the 19). Click OK and the fraction
will appear in your document, highlight and adjust font size to suit.
Q
I have replaced my laptop with a new desktop
PC. How I can copy all 'sent and deleted' e-mails onto the new machine. I have
Outlook Express 5 on both and have transferred all data in My Documents using
Transkit 2.
David Halliwell
A
All of your email messages are squirreled
away deep inside an anonymous series of Windows folders, the usual location is:
C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Identities\{12...long jumble of numbers and letters...\Microsoft\Outlook
Express. Simply copy the contents of the 'Outlook Express' folder to the same
location on your new machine.
Q
I refer the item about upgrading in F!F!F!
8th Feb. My computer has similar specifications. Intel Pentium II, 266MHz. How
do I add another 64Mb of RAM?
Brigid Owen
A
It's actually not that difficult, but it
would take up too much space to go into it here, instead have a look at the
short tutorial we ran in Boot Camps 22 and 23 which you can find in the
Connected/Dotcom archive at www.telegraph.co.uk/connected. Don't attempt it
unless you've never had the lid off your PC or you're not confident of your
abilities to wield a screwdriver. It's important to get the right type of
memory for your PC but don't let anyone kid you it's complicated - it typically
takes about five minutes -- or charge more than a few pounds to do it for you!
Incidentally, memory chips are reasonably cheap at the moment and in magazines
like Micro Mart there are companies advertising the commonest 64Mb memory
boards for less than £25.
Q
Now and again this strange error message
appears on the desktop. If I click OK the thing shuts down and restarts. The
message is; 'Kagou-Anti-Kro$oft says not today' It only appears now and again
otherwise everything seems okay.
Ken Lilley
And
For some months now every time I switch on my
PC it creates the attached empty file KAK.HTA and opens it on the desktop. I
delete it from the Start Up folder and the Recycle Bin but it just keeps being
recreated. This is presumably as a
result of the lines of code in my autoexec file. Does this code serve any useful
purpose? My highly computer-literate
son denies putting it there. Could it
be the result of something one of us downloaded? It doesn't seem to do any harm; it's just a small annoyance. Any advice?
David Bennett
A
You have both been infected by the infamous
'Kak' worm, a particularly virulent little blighter spread by email
attachments. Fortunately it is non-destructive, but it will attach itself to
all outgoing emails and infect others. There's an easy to follow article on
disinfection and preventative measures at: http://www.pchell.com/internet/kakworm.shtml
Q
Your item (8th Feb) on Spider was a
revelation. I took advantage of the free download. Sorry, but how do I delete
the URL history? Spider exposes hidden URL's on the Notepad, but I cannot
delete them. Any help will be appreciated.
James McCready
A
The download site lists two versions of
Spider. You have almost certainly downloaded the original v1.04; the later
version v1.16, as it points out, has the URL deletion facility.
Q
When using Microsoft Word 97, I have recently
lost the vertical scroll bars (on the right hand side of the screen) that allow
me to move quickly up and down the document. The horizontal scroll bar is still
visible and usable. The only way that I am able to move up and down the
document is by using the 'up' and 'down' or 'page up' and 'page down' keys on
the keyboard.
Any suggestions on how I can restore the
scroll bars please?
Neil Pointon
A
Proceed to Tools, then Options, select the
View tab and check 'Vertical Scroll Bar'
Q
A colleague's mother recently and unwittingly
left their PC connected to the Internet for a rather long period of time
(the bill came to around £170). BT did call the house on another line, but
would only speak to the account holder (my Father) who was away at the time.
When they eventually got hold of him, he was, to say the least, not best
pleased. Is there a programme available that will automatically disconnect from
the Internet after a set period of inactivity?
Sandy Saunders
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Windows has that facility built in and it is
usually set by default t0 20 minutes, so someone must have switched it off.
There are various ways to get at it but the simplest is to go to Control Panel,
double click Internet Options, then the Connections tab. In Win 98 & ME
highlight your dial-up connection, then click Settings and the Advanced button
and put a check next to Disconnect if Idle and set a time. In Windows 95 just
click the Settings button on the Connection tab.
Q
I followed your instructions to enable the
AutoRun facility on my Hitachi CDR-7730 CD-ROM (F!F!F! February 8th). However,
the option "Auto Insert Notification" is already checked. Have you
any other ideas?
Oliver Parsons
A
It is possible that a Registry entry is
causing the problem, however do not attempt this fix unless you know what you
are doing, and backup your registry beforehand. (See Boot Camps 126 & 127
at www.telegraph.co.uk/connected). Depending on your version of Windows the
errant keys can be found at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
ControlSet001\Services\CDRom
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
Change the binary value of 'Autorun' from 0
(disable) to 1 and reboot.
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