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I was going to say a Sheeva http://www.newit.co.uk/SheevaPlug.php But without any video output I don't think hooking it up to a TV will work. You certainly won't get anything smaller. Tim

Sound like your keyboard mapping is wrong and set to USA keyboard layout. Have a look in control panel Regional and language setting (in Vista, XP is just regional I think) Tim

As this is a 7 person occupancy building you may find that the provider of the broadband connection is throttling the bandwidth to share it out amongst everybody living at the house?? Tim

Router is set to issue IP via DHCP which is is doing, those laptop that can't get on the internet are picking up IP via DHCP. I have tried setting the laptops to static IP (in the same range as that being issued by the router) but thatdid not work either. I have changed the DNS IP on the router...

Thanks purplecloud, should of added have tried channels 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,13 currently using 7. I will try 8,10,11,12 but at the moment I losing the will to fight so it will be tomorrow sometime. Tim

Four laptops, 1 XP, 1 Win 7, 1 Mac, 1 Linux all had working wireless connection before router change The new router is a Draytek 2710n, wired connection over through the rotuer works perfectly, the Windows 7 laptop connected over wireless straight away, after a lot of huffing and puffing the...

Motherboard specs: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01386897 Core 2 Duo processor will cost around £75, memory around £50 for 4gb so you could do a cheap upgrade is you wish. Upgrading will depend on the current age and your long term plans for your...

Another vote for TSOHost, there support is second to none Tim

You mean something like THIS Not got one personally but was looking at them a while ago. Tim

Thanks for all the info, I will pass it on to her Tim

My daughter is looking for some basic photo editing software for her Mac laptop prefably of the free variety. She is not a heavy users or doing multi layers etc, just tweaking the colours, cropping and resizing Any recommendations?? Tim

Opps, forgot all about this post, but at least others have sorted you out. Tim

You will need to format the hard disk as fat32. There are limits to the size of fat32 partion can be, can you let us know the capacity of the external hard disk please. Tim

Is it something as simple as .jpg & .JPG upper and lower case problem?? Tim

You can't use a USB lead. Do you have a USB memory stick, if so stick it in the XP box, copy files to it, plug it in the Laptop and copy file from it to the laptop. If you don't have a USB memory stick, do you have a USB memory card reader on both PC and Laptop (or one you can move from one to...