One of the more useful services I have found on the internet is weather updates. Quite a few people are not aware that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology publishes regularly updated weather forecasts for Australian cities. You can find the forecasts by visiting www.bom.gov.au and click on your state. For ACT residents, you can access the weather forecasts directly at:
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN10035.txt. This site is definitely one of my bookmarks! (more…)

When Windows starts the following message appears: ‘Windows cannot find C:Windowssystem32keybdcntl.exe’. Clicking OK causes another message to appear: ‘Could not load or run C:Windowssystem32keybdcntl.exe specified in the registry. How can I stop these messages from appearing? The computer is running Windows XP. (more…)

Disk Defragmenter does not operate properly. As the scan reaches anywhere from 1% to 10%, it stops and restarts with the message ‘Drive contents changed, restarting’. Disk Defragmenter does this behavior continually until the program is stopped. We recently upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP, so this may have contributed to the problem. Can you help? (more…)

How do I change the spelling in Microsoft Word 2000 to an Australian dictionary? I have been able to change the spelling in the current document to Australian, but it always defaults back to American after starting a new document. (more…)

When typing certain characters on the keyboard, different characters appear on screen. For example:
- ” produces @
- @ produces ”
- # produces £
- produces #
All other text keys seem to work normally. How can I fix this issue? The computer is running Windows XP Professional. (more…)