Thank-you for your weekly column in the Herald Express, I have found it helpful on more than one occasion.

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430 CDT and use Freeserve as my ISP using Outlook Express to send and receive my mail and Internet Explorer for Internet connection (Both use the same connection settings).

At home everything is okay, but when I go to my daughter’s house and connect through her telephone line I can receive my mail without any problem but am unable to send any e-mails.I have tried putting her telephone number in the Dial-Up Networking settings but nothing seems to … Read the rest

Some of you may remember when Apple first released the iMac, an entire PC which was built into a colourful CRT monitor, designed to be easy to use and to liven up your desktop.For those of you who are somewhat ignorant of alternatives to PC computing, Macintosh computers are used by many home and professional users a viable solution to what most of you would only think about using a PC for.The system has its own Operating System, ‘Mac OS’, which is primarily designed for running specially written Mac software (for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac OS rather than Microsoft Internet Explorer … Read the rest

Last week we looked at the website www.Luv2CUagain.com which focussed on allowing old friends who met through any stage of their lives to get back in contact again via the Internet; a user would go online, type in their name and see if anyone was currently actively searching for them.I did promise though that this week I would investigate a similar style of site, but instead ofspecifically looking for one particular person we’d look at one which focuses on groups of people; your old school friends.

The website www.friendsreunited.co.uk allows you to specify which schools you went to and your respective years of … Read the rest

I enclose a photostat of my son Nigel and his colleague, Roger Palin who have set up a website to enable friends to get in touch with each other.

As my son attended Knowles Hill School, Newton Abbot, between 1971 and 1977 when we lived in Bovey Tracey, he wondered whether you could perhaps publicise the venture so former pupils could contact him or other friends.

Ray Nickless, Brixham

Enclosed with this letter, as Ray said was a cutting from Wirral News Group which gives us some interesting information about the site Luv2CUAgain.com although since this article was written towards the end of … Read the rest

This week I’ll again spend a bit of time answering a selection of readers’ questions in the hope that I can resolve some of your most common problems.

I have been following your Click column in the Herald Express for some time and find it useful, being very new to Windows, etc.  I followed your recent instructions on updating and managed to update most of our programs although, I cannot download DirectX 8.1 upgrade; it takes almost an hour and every time I try (and I have tried many times this last week) I lose the connection somewhere during the download time.  We have Freeserve Anytime.

As you know, when the connection breaks … Read the rest