Next question.................

Sorry guys, me again

fcuk me I would be lost without you lot

Have Sky BB up and running now, my email client is Microsoft outlook. It is still receiving mail under my old @bt.com email address. Have tried looking at tools but how do i change it so its my new @sky.com email address

cheers

gazza

[PAULM03]

Should be:
tools--->E mail accounts

then click the button marked 'change existing account'

cheers Paul, I did look but it started asking for passwords and all sorts better wait till the missus gets home

Next question...........

I have a 3 short video clips on my mobile, It says the file is to big to send via multimedia and I cant get nokia PC suite to work re connecting to computer via bluetooth or infared...... any suggestions as to how I can get them onto my PC and then onto PL

I just know that this is gonna be my own thread and 6 months down the line will prob have about 100,000 replys I really am that crap on computers

[Valiant23]

The password to your e-mail account should be the same as the one that Sky BB uses to access the internet for you.

(I think)

[PAULM03]

Originally Posted by gazza271

cheers Paul, I did look but it started asking for passwords and all sorts better wait till the missus gets home

Next question...........

I have a 3 short video clips on my mobile, It says the file is to big to send via multimedia and I cant get nokia PC suite to work re connecting to computer via bluetooth or infared...... any suggestions as to how I can get them onto my PC and then onto PL

I just know that this is gonna be my own thread and 6 months down the line will prob have about 100,000 replys I really am that crap on computers

Only thing I can think of is a memory card reader. Not sure if thet's much help

next question..................



bloody computers

After getting back from France last night fire up the PC ready to catch up on PL

The desktop would connect to the internet but was really really slow, was waiting 3-4 minutes for a page to load. Tried resetting the sky wireless box etc but nothing helped. The desktop was slow for a few days before going away and also had a little icon pop up in the bottom right hand corner saying system resources were low (PC is only 6 months old!)

Switched on the laptop and that worked ok and at broadband speed but only today I have noticed that its not connecting through the usual sky wireless box but a "belkin" connection WTF

All day have only had the laptop to use as still cannot get internet on desktop. Spent an hour on the phone to Dell customer support to no avail and Sky techie help are just as bad.

Any idea's or suggestions please............

[AJ]

worth pointing out when you change isps, BT will deactivate your e-mail address if you don't connect to it from a BT dial up accoutn every 100 days

[PAULM03]

Switched on the laptop and that worked ok and at broadband speed but only today I have noticed that its not connecting through the usual sky wireless box but a "belkin" connection WTF

Maybe you're leeching off someone elses connection You might have to set your sky connection to default. I'm not at home for a couple of weeks and I can't remember how to do it off the top of my head so I can't be much more help than that.
I think if you right click the little wireless icon at the opposite side of the task bar to the windows 'start' button that brings up a menu where you can have a look at the available wireless connections. You should be able to connect to the one you want that way.

One of the girls at work has just bought a laptop, apparently now you do not get word or excel as standard and she was told by shop (PC World) that it would cost £80 each for them !

Now mine and hers computer knowledge will probably fit onto the back of a fag packet any suggestions ?

[Trilobite]

You/She could try OpenOffice, its free ---> http://www.openoffice.org/product/

next question..........

when we bought this Dell pc it came with a movie player called "nero" but now its saying that the trial period has expired. Bloody annoying when trying to open emails/films etc.

Can i just switch to windows media player (which i do have) as a default movie player and if so how do i set it up without going to add/remove programs and deleting nero ?

cheers

[GotaFancy?(BPP)]

I didn't even know that nero was a media player I thought it was just for burning CD/DVD!!

If you open Windows Media Player, then it should prompt you asking if you want to make it the default media player .... cant see any reason why you shouldn't....

If you want to watch downloaded films (without worrying about downlaoding CODECs), then get yourself a copy of VLC Media Player and use that - it's a free download

[lemonjon]

agree with GAF

get VLC a great multi functional player

[Comic Book Guy]

To make Windows Media Player your default media player, follow these steps:

1.	In Windows Media Player, click Tools, and then click Options.
2.	On the Formats tab, under Available File Formats, click Select All to select all of the file formats listed (or you can click to select each individual check box).
3.	Click Apply, and then click OK.

...that's from the Microsoft help... And it will work unless you're using Vista

Thanks guys, will look at these later

GaF I may be wrong about nero being a movie player but thats what opens everytime I want to open a movie/clip etc

[lemonjon]

nero may open as it thinks u wanna do something with the media clip etc etc, is it nero digital u have?

u could also remove the nero from ur system.

[Galronix]

I have Nero 7 Ultra and it has a built in video player.

Would you like a copy gazza??

next question from the numpty

What's the best FREE dvd burner programme to download specifically for photo's and adding music to the slideshows etc. Nik is going through a stage of putting ALL (fcuking thousands) of our photo's into albums and wants to enhance it all a bit

cheers

[Comic Book Guy]

Try this one:
link

Originally Posted by Comic Book Guy

Try this one:
link

Thanks mate but comes up with an error message