In fairness I don't recall the Worthing to Selsey route having any significant hill climbs involved. I reckon yesterday's route took in over 700 metres of ascent (2300ft). Took us about 4.5hrs, with a 6:30 start, but we were taking it easy. I was amazed how many slow cyclists there were...
Microsoft Security Essentials definitely. I've used it to clean machines that have been infected even with a full version of Norton or McAfee supposedly protecting it.
Highly recommended, and can now be used in Small Businesses up to 10 PC's I think.
Check on your start menu, all programs, and look for a sub folder called Microsoft Office. If you've 'accidentally' installed a newer version you should see two Microsoft Word icons. Click on the older one and it should work.
Most external hard drives are just a standard 3.5" internal hard drive attached to a small biit of circuit board which acts as a USB to SATA/IDE converter.
You have most likely fried the circuitboard, not the hard disk.
Open up the unit, extract the hard disk and then buy the relevant caddy...
Let's just hope the shop assistant doesn't wander off into the shop, thereby requiring our friend to move back one place in the queue, to ensure there are two people between her and the shoes.
You can't have a modem & an ADSL router plugged in at the same time. Much more simple to get an ADSL Wireless Router. They range from £30-over £100.
Wireless - Routers - ADSL - Ebuyer
It will have 4 wired ports on the back for ethernet network cables, and a wireless signal that can be...
What do you need USB for?
If you just need wireless, just buy one of these PCMCIA Wireless cards:
Wireless - Adapters - PC Cards - Ebuyer
Obviously he'll need a wireless network to connect to.
Running a defrag on a disk with faults is like revving a car engine to 9000 rpm for an hour when it sounds a bit low on oil.
Let the checkdisk do it's thing. If it continually requires it, try running "chkdsk c: /r" at a command prompt, it will ask if you want to schedule it for the next...