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Hi guys!

Had a massive break and hopefully now back and thought I'd make this my first return post.

I never defragged my PC.

I've done a lot of PC repairs around the county recently and the biggest cause of slow Windows XP was compression enabled. Very few can remember enabling it but you can tell if it's enabled by doing this:

1. Open "My Computer"
2. Open your hard drive usually C: (might be called "Local Disk")
3. Open "WINDOWS" and scroll down looking at the filenames and folder names

If any of the names are blue then you've got compression enabled and no amount of defragging will fix this. I won't post how to fix this unless someone posts back saying they need to know.

If you really do want to defrag your machine (Windows 7 users don't need to as the operating system has a brilliant file management system in place) then only do it once every 6 months. The more often you defrag the more chance you've got of losing files.

Reason why is because the defragger moves files around the hard drive very quickly splitting them up and re-joining them again. This doesn't go wrong that often but when it does it can go terribly wrong.

Did you know that on most website you can change the size of the text!!!

Just hold down the CTRL key and move the wheel on the mouse and the text will get bigger or smaller depending on which way you move the wheel.

Okies

Nothing wrong with IE7 either.

Oh, really?
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/internet_explor.html

The only time I use Internet Explorer is when I'm testing my web sites to make sure they display properly.

Original poster, I recommend you connect to the internet as normal and install a third-party browser like Firefox and use that instead of AOL.

As for the connection issues, that's probably down to Carphone Warehouse and their wonderful way of treating their customers.

You see, AOL UK suffered some financial difficulties and put themselves on the market. Carphone Warehouse bought them out just like they have with Talk Talk and some others. I was with one ISP just before Carphone Warehouse bought them out and after they changed we had problems like yours on web sites and thongs slowly got worse so we changed ISP. Guess who we're stuck with now...

 

Windows Live Messenger (aka Messenger, MSN) is a FREE way of chatting with others over the internet for free.

Chatting is done via typing and is on a one-to-one basis with only those you invite into your list of contacts. You can see when they're online and when they come online by the way of a little notification window popping up.

You can talk with many at the same time but they have to be invited into the conversation.

It's also got the ability to transfer files. Because of the way the files transfer (directly and not via email) there is no limit to the size of file you can send.