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rclarke250 - Many thanks for the Nero Drive Speed idea; This would seem to be the ideal solution - trouble is it just does not work! Have tried it on both a laptop then a desktop although speed settings can be set in the combo boxes the spin down can never be set from the available list. Do you...

I believe that I need an external DVD drive to use with an Acer laptop to solve this problem: Playing DVDs using the internal drive in a lecture situation where the DVD is paused for long periods causes a very poor playing performance when taken out of pause again. The DVD stutters and stops...

G0AOZ - thanks for reply. I managed to find a cure by logging into the router and disabling the wep security. The Dell then connected without difficulty. Then I put back the same wep security and the Dell continued to work after negotiating the security. All has been well for several weeks and...

Win XP SP3 Dell, Pentium 3, Netgear router and Netgear wireless card. This old Dell has been working perfectly well on my own wireless network until I 'dared' to try to connect to another network. Now the original wireless network always displays "limited or no connectivity". There is no...

BBB, TweakUI worked! - the only slight inelegance is that a second Administrator account has to be created before a limited account can be created; never mind, I can live with that! Thanks again.

BigBadBen many thanks - my last post crossed with yours; will try TweakUI and report back.

Thanks for your explanation. So how can I convert my existing 'Administrator account' to a 'user Administration account'? Changing the way users log On or Off is not the difficulty at the moment. I hope I have understood you correctly.

There are two user accounts on this machine - one named 'Administrator' and the other 'Guest' (turned off). When I create a new account the only option is for one with administrator rights. If I create a new account with a particular name, upon reboot my original 'Administrator' account has...

Outlook has always worked well for my emails but for no apparent reason any hyperlink, like a website or a mailto link will now not show in the SENT message. Whilst in COMPOSE mode the hyperlinks are active but they become inactive when viewed in the SENT box and also are inactive for the email...

To answer my own question - there is no option to overide any Acer management systems in the bios. I have tried all power sttings available but nothing will prevent the disc stopping after a few seconds. Any other ideas please? philip

Thanks; the energy setting seems the most logical thing to change. Unfortunately, this Acer laptop doesn't have a 'Desktop' setting. There is an Acer power management system that comes up when investigating 'power options' in control panel - the usual windows power panel does not show. Perhaps I...

I use WinDVD to play a DVD disc for a lecture. I need to pause for long lengths of time and then start playing again. Trouble is that after pausing for more than about 5 seconds the disc stops spinning and takes nearly 5 seconds to start playing again and audio will stutter. Playing from pause...

Thanks everyone - very useful info. no virus/spyware found. Problem remains. I have a later version of the same programme that will run properly but which is very bloated; thats why I preferred the earlier and simpler version. Won't waste your time with naming actual prog. It is a specialised...

Thank you so much to all of you for the suggestions - sorry to say the problem remains for my particular app but your ideas are very useful to know about and I shall use them in the future. The Virtual PC solution looks interesting and will give that a try. I notice that the shortcut to my .exe...

A particular programme installs normally but just will not run. I have disabled UAC and tried combinations of DEC. I also tried the 'run as admin' option on the .exe - all to no avail. Vista invites me to send MS this error report: Files that help describe the problem...

Thanks so much - It works!

I am able to install my favourite audio editing prog ok but when running the prog I get this message: "Your windows log in has not enough rights to use 'this programme' completely eg CD burning, CD reading". I then find that the programme runs ok but the CD burner is not recognised. I am running...

Thanks everyone, the Dell is now working splendidly with all drivers loaded. Freestone was spot on with the solution. I did not see the button at the bottom of the page to initiate the loading process partly because the resolution was so low. I'll know better next time. Thanks again!

Freestone - thanks so much and yet again I have given the incorrect model number! It is a 2300 NOT 3200 - so sorry to you and all others. OK the video section. I have no access to the machine for several days but will look with great interest again at the page with ticks - if mine does the same...

goombawaho - thanks but that is my point; putting in the CD just opens a start page which gives all sorts of options and menus all of which relate to information about drivers with some driver names ticked and others not ticked. There is no button or link to click anywhere at all to either...