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  • Taskbar moved
    By skid on April 26, 1999 in Windows 95/98/Me | No Comments  Comments
    The Silicon Kid Archive

    I have an IBM Aptiva and the toolbar that contains the start button and the clock is usually at the bottom but the other day it moved its self to the top of the screen and we can’t figure out how to move it back. Could you please help as it makes things difficult? (more…)

  • Thesaurus and Dictionary
    By skid on April 26, 1999 in Office | No Comments  Comments
    The Silicon Kid Archive

    As an old silver-top heavily into word processing at home, all is well with my Windows 95 and Word 97 packages except that for some documents (produced on earlier software versions). Word can’t find either its Thesaurus file or its Dictionary file. It never seems to lose both at the same time. I fixed the Dictionary problem in each document individually by: Edit (Select all) Tools (Language) Mark selected text as English (UK) OK but I can’t discover any way to connect the errant Thesaurus. (more…)

  • Loosing sound
    By skid on April 26, 1999 in Sound | No Comments  Comments
    The Silicon Kid Archive

    I have a Pentium 100, 48 MB RAM setup. On the odd occasion I use my machine to play games, everything works fine for the first few minutes, then I lose sound. When this happens, I have to reboot my machine to get the sound functioning again. Is there an inexpensive solution to my problem? (more…)

  • Antivirus product
    By skid on April 26, 1999 in Security and malware | No Comments  Comments
    The Silicon Kid Archive

    A few weeks ago you recommended a virus-protection program to download. Please can you tell me again its name? Currently I have eSafe Protect Watch installed but its about to run out of time and I think it does too much, anyway. If I do download your advised program, what’s the best way of getting rid of all the eSafe files, etc? I’m running Windows 95. (more…)

  • Antivirus software
    By skid on April 26, 1999 in Security and malware | No Comments  Comments
    The Silicon Kid Archive

    Being very new to the internet, I thought you might be able to help me with anti-virus software. I was told it is possible to download this from the net. If this is so, could you advise me how? Your help would be much appreciated. (more…)