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- HP 510 Notebook PC - SP33751.exe (Keyboard Drivers) . . .Source?
- I'm having the devil's own job trying to find a download site that actually HAS this driver file.Every site I've tried "say" they've got it - but the file is NEVER there.Any ideas folks?This might work??It looks like the FTP is missing the file. This is a link to...
- Tags: Channel management, PC, Old Mycroft, Hewlett-Packard Co., notebook computer, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- HP 510 laptop - Dead keyboard and touchpad
- I'm sitting looking at an HP 510 laptop with an odd looking touchpad ( looks like it's made of lots of little holes ) and a sunken keyboard, neither of which are doing much at all.So, keyboard AND touchpad are dead. I don't have access to a usb keyboard...
- Tags: Keyboards, BIOS, Old Mycroft, keyboard, HP 510, USB, PS/2, BIOS password, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- British 2007 CR@PS Award . . .
- CRIMEWATCHAs it's the Awards Issue, it's time for Zygote to present his prestigious Computer-Related Award for Public Services.. .This year it goes to the US Homeland Security Department, the agency dedicated to fighting computer crime and cyber threats. Since the last awards ceremony, it has suffered 809 hack attacks, virus...
- Tags: Homeland security, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Old Mycroft, Zygote
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Who among us have ever been "Fleet-of-finger" ??? [M.U.D. players]
- I reckon I'm better suited to existing within the confines of a public forum driven noticeboard. After all it was noticeboards that got me hooked into online computing in the first place, way back in the mid-70s. Ahh, the heady days of interacting with workers all over the shop, who...
- Tags: Games, Mainframes, Development tools, Old Mycroft, M.U.D., game, ASCII, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Mouse wheel now 'scrolls' page forward/back function. WTF?
- About five minutes ago it started.Acer Aspire 1363 WLMi, 2GB, nVidia GeForce 5200 128MB, Acrox 800 dpi 5-button mouseThe mouse scroll wheel won't scroll through anything - it acts like the browser page back, page forward function - the function that the left and right mouse buttons have done for...
- Tags: Mice, Old Mycroft, mouse
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Fastest ever Speeding Conviction in Britain - 172mph!!!
- Just heard on the radio, some bloke has just been convicted of speeding on a dual carriageway in Oxfordshire, which has a speed limit of 70mph.Two cops clocked this headcase with a radar gun from an overpass, travelling at what they thought was 170mph - later examination of the data...
- Tags: Old Mycroft, lane
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Friday Yuk
- Well, it's 13 minutes past midnight so it's Friday here in the Highlands!SCOTLAND DRAFT HIGHER GRADE MODERN MATHEMATICS PAPER 2005HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALGLASGOW REGIONName
.Nickname
..Gang name
1.Shuggie has bought half a kilo of cocaine for large. He wants to make 300% on the deal and still pay Mad Malky his 10% protection money. How...
- Tags: Old Mycroft, Jasmine, Davie, acre, daddy
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Just noticed - Animated Avatars...how do I enable them?
- I 'disappeared' for about three weeks recently - I'll bet most of you didn't even notice! I'm that well thought of.Anyway, I logged into TR occasionally from my local Public Library only to be presented with animated avatars. Of particular note were the fluttering antipodean flags [you know who you...
- Tags: Old Mycroft
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Shouldn't TR issue a dictionary of 'banned ' words ???
- I only ask this because I have been 'reliably' informed (by he who shall remain nameless - actually he who seems to have changed his name) that I am now 'marked' due to having called him a name that is apparently considered naughty, nasty, inflammatory, not-the-done-thing, or whatever other reason...
- Tags: Old Mycroft
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Building a computer
- I recently took my hdd from my other computer to fix it in a old computer (Celeron 566E processor)which was working condition. Now there are nothing left in the motherboard. I fix 2 stick of RAM and fixed this Quantum LM20 hdd to it. I tried to to boot up...
- Tags: Serial ATA, Microsoft Windows XP, Mycroft, wahchee2001@..., Old Mycroft, hard drive, motherboard, disk drive, disk, PC, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- TR WARNING!!! 'Virus Protect Pro'
- The following is a copy of a PeerMail I sent to CaptBillyOneEye a few minutes ago:Well, I ran just about every anti-virus option available on the UBCD disc - no joy.Checked on the net and found copious entries for 'Virus Protect Pro' which my sad mate, had contracted whilst visiting...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Old Mycroft, virus, Virus Protect Pro
- Discussion threads 2007-08-05
- Anyone else finding 'Next' & 'SAVE' too close together?...
- Each and almost every time now, when I click for the next post in a thread - I end up at the 'SAVE' page.Who's bright idea was it to swap the bottom around?Being a creature of habit it took a few times - ending up at the 'Reply' input page,...
- Tags: Old Mycroft
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- This is new! ...My browser has developed a 'drop down'.
- Whenever I 'hover' over a TR title I get what would be a drop-down dialogue box like a shell window EXCEPT this window is just 1 pixel wide!!!A single pixel wide but about 4 text lines deep.Can't seem to get rid of it - it doesn't bother me other than...
- Tags: Web browsers, Construction, Old Mycroft, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-07-08
- How do you disable Vista's file indexing?
- Seriously!My poor sad mate has a NB with pre-installed Vista Premium.The main problem as I can see it, is when 'file indexing' kicks in automatically. The entire OS then slows right down because of that process.I read somewhere, recently, and then forgot! ...but I know there is a way...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Old Mycroft, Indexing Options, Start Menu, Click-on, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- TR - password requests - do we flame OR take the blame?
- I for one, as a relative newcomer, am surprised that a forum such as this can have so much disagreement over a single subject.By far, the single most frequently requested information, is for the bypass of either BIOS or Administrator passwords. These requests are to varying degrees either blatantly illegal...
- Tags: Old Mycroft, BIOS, password, Administrator password
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
- Toshiba Equium A60 - Where's the RAM hiding?
- I'm trying to find the location of the dimms but they're not under any of the access panels.Any thoughts?Typically...Under the keyboard or under one of the panels on the top by the keyboard.My HP laptop's RAM is under the panel to the left of the touch pad.Removing the keyboard...
- Tags: Keyboards, Toshiba Corp., Old Mycroft, keyboard, RAM
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- Let's have a poll for the greatest Video game of the 80s...
- And then we can announce the result under the heading of 'Greatest Arcade Game of the 80s"...I'll start it off, as there was clearly no-contest.BEAM RIDER on the late-but-great Commodore 64.
- Tags: Games, Old Mycroft, video game, game, video
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Where best to get replacement HDD for Toshiba Equium
- I've got a mate and his brother's girlfriend's Tosh Equium sitting in front of me at the moment.UBCD is showing a raft of HDD errors and I was wondering where would be the best (cheapest, most compatible) source for a replacement HDD?cheap = let the buyer beware. mate = best...
- Tags: Old Mycroft, quality part, hard drive, Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- Disappearing TR posts...
- I was typing out an answer to a post last night GB local time when my wireless system 'dropped' the carrier signal.Good film on late night tv coming up, I saved the answer and shut down for the night.Came back this morning to finish inputting the answer and :- no...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Old Mycroft, TR Posts
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
- Slipstreaming with a Recovery Partition?...
- I need some brainstorming on this - is it possible?Is it even feasible?
- Tags: Old Mycroft
- Discussion threads 2007-06-08
