h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello there, and welcome to h2g2! I'm fords, one of the Assistant Community Editors (ACE) and I'm your offical welcomer.

Now, there are many weird and wonderful things to see and do on h2g2, but instead of bombarding you with information I have compiled a useful guide at A811874 which will help you to get acquainted with the site, make your Personal Space all pretty and introduce you to the wonderful world of the h2g2 smiley and GuideML - the Guide's very own markup language which comes in very useful for writing Guide entries and creating a great Personal Space

Any questions? - simply reply to this message and I'll be more than happy to help

Ooh, one last thing - Goldfrapp fan?

Hi,

Thanks for the welcome. I am a Golfrapp fan, well-spotted! It was either that or WonderfulElectric.

Regards,

Strict Machine

Hiya, I just want to say welcome too

Nice one - I was well chuffed they won an Ivor

How you finding the site so far?

I've just got my computer back from a servicing, so I haven't really had a chance to look around yet. It's all very friendly, though.

HCIP

We're a very friendly bunch round here, as you'll find

I should really get my laptop sorted out, it seems to get slower by the day

Get the free download from Lavasoft, 'Ad-Aware 6'. You'll be surprised and horrified by what it finds on your computer! I found 500 tracking cookies and data miner the first time I used it.

HCIP

I've got that, and I have Spy Sweeper too and my virus checker is up to date, as is my firewall. But when I go into Task Manager, there are about 6 svchost thingies running, which I'm suspicious of

OOh yes, get rid of the unwanted running processes. Find somewhere that services computers.

I take mine to HallsNet, my university's ISP people. We have this incredibly fast ethernet connection that is 100 times faster than Broadband.



H

*starts to sneak away...too technical for her....*

Aw, poor Luthiena!

My mate was telling me there is a list on the Microsoft site or some such place that tells you what you should and shouldn't have running in your Task Manager so I'll give that a go. I still think Blaster's in my PC somewhere, but no matter how many checks I do with my anti-virus software nothing is ever found. One day I tried closing down a couple of the svchost things to see what would happen and on one of them the NT/Authority thing came up (as it did with Blaster)

*sits down and waits for the techinical conversation to finish *

I don't have to do anything particularly technical, the upshot of that is that I don't understand the techy bits. I just take it in to be serviced!

Were are you two from then?

H

That's just lazy!

I'm in Edinburgh

York