All things silly or plain daft; a gag or three and maybe a chat about Desktop Sidebar !! Or summat to bore the pants off you ..who knows ..? !
mike b1954's Articles In Personal Computing
October 6, 2009 by mike b1954
Just another quickie hopefully ... ( sitting Comfortably ?) By that , I mean I hope this is resolved pretty sharpish ... Chapter 1 ... ! Yesterday ,I bought a brand new External Maxtor 500 gb hd for my mate ( birthday treat) ... Read all instructions .. installed the usb and the transformer supplied ... no probs ... and plugged in and turned on .. No problems ... found new hardware popup .. installed drivers ... Rebooted and the new disc show...
September 21, 2009 by mike b1954
  A friend of mine pointed this out to me ... If you have Windows 7 ,  go get  !   Sme pretty decent themes there too !
July 24, 2009 by mike b1954
Ok Guys and gals ! Hopefully a quickie question and answer ... Every day / night / TIME ~ ~ that I turn my PC on I keep getting a popup from Windows defender saying I have not scanned my PC for "X" ( being the number ) of days and my PC is at risk if I do not scan .. Being a creature of habit .. I always scan with defender while I am having my dinner ... so its a daily routine for me , and always has been .. BUT it still popsup very annoyingly ... which leads me to&n...
August 27, 2008 by mike b1954
Just a quickie ... hopefully ...  for starters .. FF... XP SP3 Object Desktop all up to date Being a user of Desktop Sidebar I have all my quick launch icons in a panel on DS  and usually they are a mirror of what normally are my desktop icons    ~  all working perfectly ... no problems at all .. In the last few days , though I have had to a lot of admin / office work so I usually , for ease , right click , arrange icons by ... then select SHOW DESKTOP ICONS ...