I have two annoying problems. Firstly my children were playing around with my computer and put on software which I later deleted. Now, every time I start up the computer the message appears: ‘Remind: Invalid Schedule File C:Program FilesHeroes3Register
emind.sch’. The Heroes3 directory and all of its contents no longer exist. How do I get rid of the message? Secondly, I do a lot of work in Wagga Wagga and often include its name in my documents. Microsoft Word spell check never likes the second Wagga. Even though I have included Wagga Wagga in the custom dictionary the error still comes up. What can I do to get it to accept Wagga Wagga? A third matter I asked you about before and I wonder whether there is now a solution. How do you remove US English for all time from Word 2000 so that it never comes up as a default. I try to ensure all my templates are UK English yet still US English sometimes comes up as the spell-checking language. Any ideas?

Regarding your first problem, it looks as though the program Heroes3 put an entry into your registry under the ‘Run’ key so that it tries to run the REMIND.SCH file when windows boots. The following steps will show you how to stop the REMIND.SCH file from being run at startup. These steps involve editing the registry so make sure that you do not change anything else in the registry as that could damage Windows. Go to the ‘Start’ menu > ‘Run’ and run ‘regedit’ (without the quotes). In the registry editor that appears, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, expand ‘Software’, expand ‘Microsoft’, expand ‘Windows’, expand ‘CurrentVersion’, and click ‘Run’. Now in the right-hand pane, you should see some values. Look for one with the Data ‘C:Program FilesHeroes3Register
emind.sch’. Should you find a entry with this value, delete that entry. If you cannot find such a value, then have a look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and follow the same instructions as above (both LOCAL_MACHINE and CURRENT_USER have the same structure). Regarding your second problem, I had a play around in Word and (as you have done) placed ‘Wagga Wagga’ in the custom dictionary. However, Word still seems to treat ‘Wagga Wagga’ as two separate words rather than one name. Unfortunately, I am unsure how to get around this. If any other readers have been able to fix this, please write in. Finally, while I was looking at possible ways around the Wagga Wagga problem in Word, I had a look for ways to remove the US English dictionary. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to do this. Also, I am not sure why US English occasionally comes up as the spell-checking language when you have selected UK English as the active dictionary. So, again, if any readers have suggestions, please send them in!