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Hi, Quick question and something I've resolved by randomly pressing loads of keys at once before, but need to do again. The monitor, has soon as it gets into windows, is displaying everything upside down. Obviously someone has pressed something on the keyboard as I managed to sort it before by pressing a load of keys. What are they?

No, off the shelf. Computer active recommend a Dell and an Evesham.

Yeah that freezer trick worked for me too! However, I've just had a hard disk fail and this company got all the data recovered within 12 hours for about £100! They got the disk friday and I had the CD's in the post by Monday. They're called easyrestore.co.uk and I've been really really pleased with the service.

only very basic games really. Do want it to be able to handle movie making though, burning to dvd without hic ups, and for it to be useful for the next 5 years.

Office, Browsing, movie making and gaming and nothing more taxing than that

Sorry if this comes up alot. I have about 500- 600 quid to spend on a good general purpose family machine. What shall I go for. Should I be looking for a vista machine or is it too soon? What figures should I be looking at? I'm guess at kleast a gig of ram, that's about the extent of my knowledge. Also, it seems as if D processors are rated more highly than these dual core ones, well by price anyway, why? Thanks howard

What's re RIS!??!

Thanks but what is PE? I tried to get the files off my hard disk using my ide to usb adaptor but while it does the "do DO" sound when plugged into a working laptop, a "e:" or whatever doesn't come up to actually "open" what's on the hard disk. I.E there's no icon in "my computer" Any ideas? Or is this yet another hard disk I have with data gone forever!!?

I'm sure this has been asked many times but having had my computer "recover from a serious error" without a solution from MS loads of times, it's now failed just saying after the "ergo" screen "system32/config/system" The last I ever saw of the computer was when it started to do a bulk memory dump which was interrupted by a low power supply. Windows says I could repair by putting in the recovery CD but nothing comes up when I do that i'e' no new screen, nothing changes, just the black background and doesn't even get to the windows stage. Any ideas? I've had 2 laptops fail after 2 heavy years use...

I can't convert all the fles in one go, just each one indivdiually. Any other ideas for clipart?

Bugger, it's got a cannabis leaf in it!

Ahh, I've sort of managed it but the pictures are really small and low res. Any ideas?

Can't believe how helpful people are here! Right, trying it out on my computer... Extracted all the files but it's really confusing, i can see "transport" "animals" etc etc etc but the image is a tiny (looking) "png" image and next to it is a text document and svg file. How do I get it into the usual word location of "insert" "clipart"? They're tiny too!

Hi, I could probably find a few office xp disks but not the ones that match. Does that matter? Do I have to reinstall office entirely? I have just downloaded open office. Will this solution work on the old win 98 machines too? How do I convert the images?

Sorry if this has been posted before... All our computers are a bit of a mess when it comes to bloody clip art. For some reason they either: 1. Don't have any so when you go onto "insert" "clip art" in word, for example nothing much will be there or, even more annoying there will be the thumbnails but not the actual picture and sometimes it says we need to put the office cd in. Now I don't know which office cd matches which computer and perhaps some of the cd's are lost so trying to use that is out of the question What I want is this: Clip art that somehow embeds itself into microsoft applications so the children can just look for clipart in the usual way. I definitely do NOT want an annoying clip art program where you have to load the cd in every time. I want to get rid of the old clip art that in some cases are merely previews and are just annoying. I want to find, as cheaply as possible a good clipart/photo program so children can have access to clip art through powerpoint and word I've just spent a tenner on some focus clip art and it was crap, requiring cd's to be put in to use it and you also have to use it's viewer. Any ideas? I wish there was something free I could just download?!!! Thanks for your help!!!!! Howard.