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Hi Pierce, Jim has asked to pass on a message saying that he won't be replying to any emails or be on h2g2 until he has recovered from a bad bout of flu which could be at the earliest on Saturday when will be able to get the cyber cafe or later.

I have heard again from Jim and he says he feels better now but it was too cold to go to the cyber cafe as they don't have any heating for the shop and he can't access h2g2 at the library it has a security block on the site. ++ +

Thank you for letting me know and tell him to get better soon

I will pass your message on.

hi thanks kat i didnt want to be thought to have disappeared, lol, ive emailed ptp. jim

I can cofirrm that

I received, read and answered it a few minutes ago

Hi Pierce, I wonder if you can help as I have lost my sound completely from my computer. I have done a complete check of my sound systems including my inbuilt speakers in my monitor but they came out as okay.

I am running a Microsoft Windows XP 2002 Home edition, Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600. The system manufacturer is Packard Bell NEC and the system type is X86-based PC. Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB, Available Physical Memory 338.68 MB,
Total Virtual Memory 2.00, GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB. Computer Intel Pentium 4.

The audio device I have is SigmaTel Audio for sound playback and sound recording. For the Midi music playback it is Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth.

Thank you

At the bottom right of your screen you should find a loudspeaker-symbol. If you do and you click it there should appear a small panel, where you can turn the volume up and down

Maybe you have one of those modern keyboards where you can (accidentally) turn off the sound by clicking one of the buttons?

If this isn't helpfull check all your connections and/or turn the computer off, remove the power chord for a minute or two and start it up again

This is all the advice I can give you, I'm afraid , not being a computer myself, just a wee bit experienced

Thanks for your help Pierce, I hope that I will find the source of the problem.

Lol, my words "not being a computer myself" should of course have been "not being a computer expert myself"

hi ptp

sunuses have kept me in for a few days, email in post bacm friday or saturday jim

Okay, take care of yourself

Pierce, I have rectified the problem through the Microsoft website and now I am making sure that I am up-to-date with all my Microsoft updates, so that I won't miss any.

Good for you

I don't have these problems since I changed back to

It is an old i () so a lot of software can no longer be updated (solves a lot of problems!) but it w*rks fine for me: Browser with ad filter, a simple text program and tons of music is all I need. And it w*rks very well as a dvd player too (with 27'' screen)

hi all

im a day early as the cyber doesnt open on saturday till after 12-30 noon. and i have to get milk and teabags for the old man i visit as is sister is out of town.

and we are suposed to have the first snow in the next 24 hrs, its cold enough to snow but the suns out as well for now.

jim

We had the first snow days ago and I had to clean the pavement - but on the bright side it's friday now

I remember this first time I went on a computer it was an IBM BBC Database and used a separate word processing computer with it's function keys. It was only in the mid 90's before I started to used Microsoft Word.

hi all

im at the lib the cyber as no heat so its 15 mins only to do emails here and facebokk, jim

hi ptp

im at the cyber as i said in the email, its a bit warmer today, but the weather lot say we could have snow before xmas, but none on the 25th, so anyone betting on snow as lost the pennies this year lol.

will try toget here on wed, jim