Recent content by hartwith

Perfect Answer. Problem resolved. Many thanks.

A client is using an XP system until he retires from his business at the end of this year. He cannot risk upgrading or replacing his pc because his main database is custom built and cannot be replaced. Just recently the content of his "Explorer" is reading from right to left. I have enclosed an...

Mike, I used to buy those tins of compressed air to give my tower a blasting every so often but the rip-off price encouraged me to buy a compressor with blower gun. Brilliant and no problems with static as per vacs. We have a lurcher cross (very hairy) and a 17 year old ginger cat (who like to...

Thanks Mike. I did exactly that, turned off screen saver, yesterday morning and no problems since. What puzzles me though is why this situation started in the first place. I do wonder if it could be associated with another annoyance in which occasionally some icons fail to appear in the system...

On a few occasions just recently my win 7 pro system has come out of "screen saver" with nothing but my desktop background displayed. If I then ctrl/alt/delete the screen goes black with just the cursor showing and otherwise unuseable. After a while the background will reappear but the only way...