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Surely not! At least today I don't have to think about going work tomorrow! And there is lots of football on today, even if we aren't playing!

Chill out! Sorry, couldn't resist! What's happened to it?? Be careful, they say that when one goes, everything goes so keep an eye out on your oven and washing machine!

What happened to it? - let me guess, it couldn't take the heat!

Not too bad today considering there was no football of great interest. Started decorating my room, purchased a bed and then went to sort out my Ghostbusters costume for a party next week!

Which one?? They are going cheap or BOGOF at some Supermarkets atm!

mmm, I want some!!! Just had some pasta with chicken, peppers, mushrooms and sweetcorn mixed with tomato and chilli sauce!

You changed the SATA cables - they might be the faulty part or might even be your mobo!

Does this help?

Haven't used it but there is one I know of: Wax Also, you can get "free" ones but not totally legal...

After reading some stuff through google, seems like the first choice would be a reinstall of Messenger...

Yeah, thats the kiddy!

Might not be that effective as Windows will look to automatically install the driver next time the laptop restarts - I think anyway, haven't tried myself!

Have you ensured the device is enabled? If you right click the sound icon and select recording devices and then properties. Ensure the Device Usage is set to enabled. If so, then just check through the other options along the different tabs to see if anything needs to be enabled etc. Not sure otherwise...

The mouse options can be changed by going via: Start > Control Panel > Mouse This should then open a window with all the options for the mouse! Do you want to turn the touchpad off completely or stop it from clicking? Not sure if either is possible off the top of my head but one tab in that window should be associated with the touchpad driver and it should have a button for its settings. Have a look through and see if anything relates to what you need!

Depends on a lot of things.... I have just got the Nokia 5800 and its awesome! Does everything I need from a phone plus a few extras inc Internet, MP3, 3.2MP Camera, a few Applications, GPS and the touchscreen is SOOO easy to get used to. I text quicker now than I did before with my K850i. If you looking for the high end phones then wait until the end of this month because Sony are releasing some beauts! Have a look on their website, all the phones marked with a star are coming soon - which ever fits your bill then I'd recommend. They were showcased in Berlin at a Mobile Phone conference (equivalent to E3 games thingy) and they were hot topic and well received. Usual mix from SE but they are now integrating the Walkman and Camera more. Other high ends would include the N97, Blackberrys and of course the Apple iPhone, oh and the new G2 Phone also dubbed Hero which is available on Orange and TMobile!

Sorry, only just read that back and didn't mean to sound harsh about it. I meant it as in it would be less hassle than trying to find it online! Anyway, before I dig a bigger hole than the one i'm standing in... It depends on how much overall you will spend and how confident you are in repairing/upgrading it. You will have to check to see if the specs on the new mobo you are looking for are compatible with your existing components - ie. The processor socket fits the mobo, the ram type is the same, generally DDR2 nowadays etc. Without knowing much about the existing components/mobo, its hard to say how much/which one to go for! If you think that you can replace the mobo along with all the components without much hassle and for a decent price than go ahead Id say. But if all off the hassle plus the cost is going to be similar to buying a new one then is it worth it?? At least with a new one, someone builds it for you, you get all the stuff tested and installed and you get a guarantee of at least a year! However, there is good fun involved in building one yourself and you get some decent satisfaction out of it if you do manage to fix it! Either way, there are plenty of guides and assistance through here and via google!

That's the one! If you look online for the manual, or better still find the manual that came with it, and it should give you a guide on replacing/removing the PSU.

Terminator 2 is on tonight on ITV2 at 9PM. What a film!

Never had a Dreamcast but used to be round my mates playing this a lot! Spent hours on it!

Damn right!

Yeah, ill meet you half way and agree on that idea. I was thinking something like that too when replying to the previous post. WinRAR is def one thing that goes everywhere with me! I keep a copy of the installation on my USB and Emails just in case too!

CCleaner has a way of doing this too! Spybot Search and Destroy is a good tool to have running, it picks up on any system changes which you can accept or reject. Very handy tool! CCleaner is good to use as mentioned above. I am currently using Avira Anti-Virus which has been good in a few reviews done recently and is up there amongst the free anti virus apps. That's pretty much all you need to keep you PC maintained. Just make sure you don't install stuff you are unsure about etc. With the data transfer, using the external is pretty much the best way as you can copy the bits you need and then move them to the relevent folders. As mentioned in the Firefox thread, use MozBackup to back your profile up and keep the add ons. You can then remove the ones you don't want via Tools > Add Ons. Mods: Maybe best to move this to the PC Help Sticky thread?!

Once a year isn't needed at all! I'd say it should only be done if absolutely necessary. General tidy and cleaning is what you need. Running programs like CCleaner is great and having Spybot Search and Destroy along with an antivirus works well for me. Added to this, you should do a de-fragment once a month! The windows tools are just as good. I haven't had to reformat once on my laptop or my main PC and have been using the tools mentioned above and it keeps my PC running smooth! No worries! Glad to be of help. As mentioned above, try doing a de-fragment of your hard drive, although if you have Vista it should be done automatically so no worries there. I also use a program called Smart Defrag which can be run to do a deeper defrag. More info here

Enjoyed watching matrix last night. Hadn't seen it in years!

Well done! When do you start?