Recent content by billzant

Mike, One disadvantage to rocketdock. When I was using fences the "save as" menu saw the shortcuts on the desktop. Saved all the drilling down to find data files.

Dear Mike, Thanks for persisting with this. I wasted two hours playing around with shortcuts and icons, and came up with a personal rocketdock that I can use. It is probably a little retentive but it amuses me. Maybe you can see it?

Hi Mike, Had remembered you had suggested some launchers, downloaded them and lost them in all my machine change stuff. Anyway it looks as if I can use rocketdock with some icon changes so good news - thanks. Will work on it. Thanks again. Hope you are keeping well, All the Best, BillZ

Badrobot, Thanks for the suggestion. I have too many files and folders that I want quick access to for the start menu (classic shell), and at the same time I have setup the windows 8 start screen to access all my software. I don't use the online phone apps that they put on their start menu. I...

Partly solved. It was fences that was locking my desktop icons I installed and uninstalled twice, causing and removing the effect. So I now need another solution. I want something that will give me easy access to a number of folder and file shortcuts (30+). One way would be to setup top level...

Dear Forum, Windows 8 has blocked me again!! I like to organise my desktop with shortcuts to folders that I cleaned up using stardock fences. I have desktop shortcuts that I now cannot move. I have installed fences 2.13, try to move to fences and nothing moves. Can anyone help? Hope you are...

Dear Forum, Please ignore this question:- Hostsxpert has a make writeable option at the top!! Shame on me. _______________ Dear Forum I have just installed windows 8 for the first time. I have been using hostsxpert to amend the hosts file to control some of the rubbish that infiltrates...

And, Pat, here is the final episode with a good solution. Basically the ASUS laptop I bought does not support Windows 8 32-bit, so the wireless driver was not working properly - the touchpad was not so good either. I contacted ASUS online, and they said that this model of laptop normally has...

Thanks for this, Pat. I have taken the computer to them, and they are going to test it. I am hoping that the wireless will drop during the testing. If it does they have agreed to repair it. I have concerns that the wireless will work in their shop, and they will then refuse. But forget my...

Thanks for all the replies. If I had returned the laptop withn a week they would have replaced it. I live in the countryside, there had been a storm and I was unable to use the internet. By the time I discovered the problem a week had transpired. The router is mine, and I have two other...

Dear Forum, I have just bought a new ASUS laptop, but unfortunately the wireless keeps dropping. Whilst my supplier will solve the problem it means that the machine will be returned to the factory and I will lose it for a month. I therefore want to do all I can before having to do that in case...

Thanks for all your help.

I have bought the 500Gb 8 Gb ram computer

Hi Mike, How are you? I live in Thailand, in the shop notebook and laptop are interchangeable. Screens here tend to be "15 inch" - is it 14.6 14.8? The screen size was the same for both models - no other size in this shop. They call the small ones netbooks here. No 17 inch available at the...

Dear Forum, I am looking to buy a new notebook. In the shop I like there are 3 factors I am considering for the way I use my computer. i7 or i5 Hard drive 750 or 500Gb 8 Gb/4Gb ram I have discovered that where I get my notebook if I want i7 and 750Gb I cannot increase the ram to 8 Gb...