Mr Postman

I'd try the SYSTEM RESTORE utility first in the the PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS folder and put things back a week or two & see if that sorts it.

If it doesnt you might have to have to start from scratch re-customising and making new shortcuts and finding your programs ect, but i'd leave that as a last resort

Yay! 420gb, i sucessfully put an extra drive in yesterday without fucking my PC up

I seen there was external external hard drives available that just plug into a USB port, but they were dearer and only went up to 250gb. I might have been gigabyte greed or penny pinching but i decided to be daring and open up the case.

I got and fitted the hard drive no problems but then had to go back to the shop to get a 1 into 2 power splitter thing so there was power to it. It was a Maxtor drive, There was no paper instructions at all with but a little diagram on top said the the little "jumper" tab or whatever its called just had to be taken out completely to make it a 2nd drive instead of master. It didnt need formatting or partitioning or any technical stuff. It didnt show up as a new drive stright away, so i had a look at the a couple of sites and fiddled around in the control panel to make it an active drive and give it a new drive letter. I've moved all my pictures/videos/music and changed a few desktop shortcuts. All i need to do now is a defragment and start filling both drives up with new rubbish

you need to stop downloading all that porn dude, it's wieghing you PC down

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Shut it, you cant prove anything I know where you live little boy.

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Thanks everybody,

I’ll be getting a new hard drive in the next couple of weeks as an early Xmas present to myself. I’ll try and set it up as an extra drive for storing music & videos and big files on. If I have any problems getting it set up I’ll try and get and answer here. Hopefully there will be some type of instruction sheet with the drive too, which won’t be badly translated Chinese technical gibberish.

It depends on what you thought was wrong with Photoshop5. Was it too simple or too complicated? I tried it for a while and it was OK,ish. I think Corel draw is supposed to be good too, but I haven’t used it for years.

There aren't that many good free downloads for that type of program. They’re usually limited uses or limited tools for obvious reasons $$$

A friend (cant remember his name) found that you can download cracked versions of all the best utilities etc from lots of different torrent sites. They are usually around 400-700mb though My friend downloaded Photoshop CS2 and couldn’t find out how to draw a straight line after spending 2 hours trying! Its not very user friendly for people who don’t use it frequently.

Ask any friends if they got a freebie copy of something included with their PC, scanner or printer. Sometimes theres decent and easy to use programs included in a bundle offer.

Heres a question for the I.T. geeks and computer builders

My 120GB C: drive is almost full, and I’m looking for more space. I could store all the movable files by burning them onto Data DVD’s 4GB at a time and start again almost from scratch. But if I do that I’m pretty sure it would fill up again in a few months & its not very convenient to use things again when its all on separate disks.

What is Best? To do a straight swap & replace the old hard drive with something bigger like 300GB and just re-install everything, or to add an additional one and have the new hard disk as the G: or H: drive? Theres an extra slot for the hard drive to fit into but I’m not sure how to set up partition drives if that’s what’s required and don’t know how to work out all the little slide switches on the disk that sets one drive as the ‘master’ & another as ‘slave’. Does having 2 hard disks cause any problems too?

Any helpful…. and preferably idiot proof advice is appreciated.

Try this

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I done that and logged back in, but theres no difference.

I noticed it yesterday that the active users at the bottom of each section is gone. It can't be coincidence that lots of other people had the same problem at the same time Users names only show up on the main page for me.