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Hi

Sue ................ you can only see Update Profile on your own posts, everyone else sees Send Message


Update Profile is there as a shortcut in case you want to make any changes ........ like a different photo, or to add Research information

The other way to make a change is to go into My Account



I would suggest that you do nothing re your board name


Reece is so far as I know the only Reece on here, but there are quite a few Susans using only Susan, and several more using Susan+ a qualifier (such as a number or word).


If you tinker with your board name, you will have to change it to Susan + qualifier.




Very heavy rain overnight ........ sounded more like November than May!



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xxx

"Update Profile"

Don't panic girls................. and I use the word loosely although I wouldn't suggest that you are loose women.

This is simply an invitation for you to update your profile if you wish and to put your mind at rest, mine says exactly the same and yours says send message.

In the same vein "Send Message" is an invitation to.................. send a message. :P

I have moved from Virgin Broadband which did not have wireless to BT Wireless Broadband on my desktop.
The BT hub is simple to set up but I have a desktop which meant that although I got wired broadband, I could not get wireless as you need either an adapter, a wireless card to "broadcast" the signal as far as I can see.
Also had trouble loading the BT software as the Virgin stuff seemed to get in the way and block it.
Got an adapter (plugin Belkin thingy) and installed it but hadn't actually plugged it into the USB when my daughter arrived from USA and she connected wirelessly with her laptop to the neighbour's wireless !!! and also to BT Fon which is a sort of wi-fi share from BT broadband.

I'm afraid I did not have time to check it out while they were over here as we don't have a wireless laptop but I did notice a lot more settings had appeared after installing the adapter.

Check out this website about the BT Hub........

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25746

I am going offline as I'm going to rub out everything and start again with my computer as that may solve my installation problems.
With a bit of luck............ I'll be back tomorrow. :S

Evelyn,

If you are on Internet Explorer then top right on the internet page, you should find "TOOLS".
Click on tools and make sure that from th drop down menu, you have FAVORITES ticked.

Bye all, see you sometime........... :O

PLEASE does anyone know how I can get my favourites bar back
HELP HELP HELP :-(

Good heaven's.....it sounds like you've all run amok!

Poor Frank must be run off his feet with all these probs. Mind you, the exercise will do him good.


Evelyn, I've sent you a pm.


I'm getting used to altering my pics but it usually takes a couple of tries before I get it right.


Not a lot happening here but thought I would pop in and say hello to everyone.


HELLO :D



Bye~~~~~~~ Cx.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah lovely doggies

Evelyn listen to Frank

Frank thanks for the info - appreciate it - is it worth it to change it ? will give then a call tonight - Does your Belkin plugin work with the BT Hub? If so all our problems will be solved as we have a newish Belkin plugin already. Stupidly i thought Belkin would only work with a Belkin wireless hub (even though i was using on Virgin Broadband dooooooooooooo)

I think i am having a mental breakdown somewhere.

Just been to one of our events - I was given a small box of luxury chocolates, managed to get another USB memory stick as well as a neck pillow (always useful) - a virgin Mug with a spoon in the handle , a little vigin plane which flashes its lights & makes wiring take off noises when you press its button, a virgin A5 notepad (I can use for all my family history data) - some jelly beans. I could have had loads of pens and chocolate and cookies and cakes. Did i tell you we were given a 2 inch thick slab of chocolate - took ages to get through as it was 7inches by 5 inches like a photo.

I could go on and on but won't. I did nibble a few of the luxury chocolates they had while i was there - probably about £5 worth in money - only 3 in reality.

Well better go back to work

take care all

Haven't a clue what you're on about Anne with Frank , but it sounds riveting!! lol

The choc story sounds much better though :D


All I seem to have done today is break things!


Started off by knocking a little pottery bud vase to the floor.

Moved onto knocking the soap holder off the shower thingey. It dropped into the bath and the leg fell off.......from the holder not the bath!


Nipped out to get some shopping and forgot that our recylable bin hadn't been emptied and reversed into it knocking it over. Cans and plastic everywhere ..... oh the shame of it.... I felt a complete idiot.


Bought a soap dish to use temporarily till we can get a clip on one and yes, dropped that too! Cracked it's base.


I think I will go back to bed and get up again........ :S



Did you get sorted Evelyn??


Hope everyone else is okay. Love. Cx.

Hi Everyone

Thank You Sylvia for putting me strait,I don't know what I would do without you all ...I am getting better on the computer but I just get a bit flustered at times when I can't work something out by myself.

Frank thank you too for all the trouble you went to for me, I was eventually quite proud of myself when I realised that the picture I chose was there.

Evelyn I tried Franks solution for your favorites and it does work but only on the tools bar on the right hand side of your page if you are using windows xp that is.

I hate to be seen as helping out but I did see that.

Oh has just rolled in from work so better go and will pop in tonight.

Suex

Hello, where is everyone? Hope you're all okay!


Have changed my picture yet again - it's quite fun actually. I was given the teapot as a present last week and, as my kitchen is black and white with red 'extras', it fitted in beautifully.


Showery here today and was cold this morning. Put the central heating on for a bit but, hopefully, it will be able to go off again soon. Really pleased because we managed to get the washing dry between showers.


Evelyn, are you sorted yet?



Sorry I haven't got anything interesting to report, but housework and shopping don't realy catch one's imagination do they? lol


Love to all. Cx

Oh Cynthia,

Is that you getting all steamed up again ?

I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout.

I somehow saw you more in polka dots. :P

My lovely clean computer is back up and running and I must have downloaded around 300 updates for Windows Vista as well as Vista SP1 and SP2 but it's nice and fast now that there's no rubbish on board.

The problem was something running my CPU at 100% for about 30 minutes everytime I logged on which meant that I couldn't run anything else............ really annoying.

WmiPrvSE.exe which normally just plods along but suddenly was taking over everything.Now I just have to figure out what it was that caused it so I'll be loading programs very carefully. :S

Stop right there Frank :-(


I have no idea what a CPU is :S



I am not short (cash Yes, height No) :P

Hello everyone, hopefully this will appear on Genes, I am having such problems with my laptop even my e mail has gone haywire, several days ago I sent an e mail to Cynthia and I see that it has not been sent to her, I have tried several times to re send it but nothing happens, thinking of throwing the laptop at the wall. :-(
Love to all
Evelyn X

Any chance you could pop over to Brittany Frank?

Short of cash - join the club

Didn't really think of you as a tea pot Cynthia

Sue have the boys gone yet?

Evelyn hows the favourites bar

Robert any photos yet?

Frank I did it, bit the bullet and canx my virgin and signed up with BT

How easy is it to change over as we should get it on friday - is it idiot proof - can I just plug in load the disc and be connected - I can see me being on the helpdesk phone for a while. OH will get stressed out and I will be shouting aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah why do I do this to myself.

Lovely sunny day here - so far manged to get the washing dry nicely yesterday - first weekend in ages with no overtime or family visits - feels very strange.

Will try & pop back in later.

take care all

Hi Everyone

Evelyn if it makes you feel any better my best friend has got a laptop and she is forever ringing me to fix it for her .

Now lets be honest I am not the best with computers but I am good compared to my friend ,I don't know how she manages to politely stuff it up so much .

I do fix it for her too surprisingly.

We went out to the forest again getting wood ,nice sunny day ,we now have the wood heap almost full ready for winter ,I hate going out in the heart of winter as it can be miserable with rain and wind ....not nice .

I think one more trailer load will do it ,we already have the fire going ,rain for the next four days they are telling us but I will believe it when I see it.

Boys still there but told us they are moving out on the 28th June so we have a few weeks yet ,they are not too bad at present hope it continues.

I think I would be to scared to move providers ,my Brother in Law in the Uk sells Virgin are they that bad he keeps saying he would love Virgin himself but his area does not have the cable down.

I am very happy with my provider..... we don't have a lot of problems and my computer is 5 years old now.
Very lucky it is still working I suppose

Suex

Hi Anne,

## EDIT ##

Just noticed Susan's post and I am on ADSL (Phone connection) rather than cable so I don't know if the change over is different for cable......... Are you cable or phone line connected?

I moved to BT because after being with Virgin for eight years + I was still paying £19.00 a month for basic broadband with an ancient Virgin supplied modem which required regular updates.
I also did not have wireless connectivity and never once did they contact me to offer an upgrade.............. just quite happy to take my money.
At the same time I was paying BT for my phone services so it made sense to move to BT for unlimited phone along with my broadband.
Instead of paying Virgin £19.00 + BT £13.00 line rental as well as phone call charges, I now pay BT £28.00 with no call charges................

##EDIT##

Did you ask Virgin to send you a MAC (Migration Authority Code) as Virgin can charge a cancellation fee of £23.50 if you have not provided one to BT who will use it to provide a (seamless) transition of your broadband services.

I've certainly not had any trouble with BT and if you had wireless running from Virgin, you should not have any problems.
Virgin however are still charging me for broadband which is surprising as I changed over in February but it can run on for a month before you are free.
Just waiting to see what happens this month.

The installation is very simple, just follow the instructions and there is a help section which loads from the disc on to your desktop which is quite handy.
Do you have an Ethernet cable (Yellow plugs) to connect the BT hub to your ethernet socket on the back of your computer. (Marked with a triangle of three little computer screens)........ My desktop computer is very basic but came with an ethernet socket.

Phone socket to ADSL filter.
ADSL modem socket (grey) which plugs into the BT Hub ADSL socket (grey)
Ethernet plug (Yellow) from Ethernet computer socket plugs into BT Hub Ethernet socket (Yellow)

Just read the instructions carefully and do exactly as they say.......... no shortcuts.

And patience.

SIMPLES......... :S

It would be advisable to make notes of any wireless settings you have at present just in case they are required for your wireless connection through BT.
Give me a shout if you need any help although it may be the blind leading the blind........ I'll do my best anyway.

Evelyn, Je voudrais bien aller à la Bretagne mais je préfère Nice. :D

Oh for heaven's sake................all that techie talk! But I guess Anne is glad that Frank is around.....well, someone has to be ;-)



Hi Evelyn, I wondered why I hadn't heard from you and was hoping you were okay. Hope you get sorted soon.


Sue sounds like Little Red Riding Hood with all this going off into the forest to collect wood........conjures up a lovely picture though.


Robert? Helloooo....are you alright?


Horrible wet today - not pleasant at all.


Take care all. Cx

Hey Cynthia,

As my old French granny used to say to me, "soit gentil"....... be nice :P

This morning I saw a very humanitarian act.
I awoke to loud quacks which is not unusual as we live in a flat next to a river and the ducks often sit up on the roof.
By noon however the quacks were still going and I noticed some cats running about the garden and men shouting which turned out to be the neighbours chasing six baby ducklings and poping them in a box! The mother duck was trying to chase the cats while the neighbours were trying to get her to follow them back to the river where they would be safe.
It took about twenty minutes for mother duck to settle down back with her babies as she flew off and went about in circles over our heads before landing in the river with father duck and his mother-in-law ! :S

Ah Frank - how sweet

Thanks for the techi stuff - we are ADSL - not cable

Same reason i am changing over from Virgin to BT - same old slow broadband system for large amount of money. I too was paying £19 a month till I realised they had reduced the price on their web page - but not told me - & i complained - so they reduced it by £2.50

BT are offering 3 months free & then £13 a month with in theory quicker broadband. They also off free wireless around the country if you are near an openzone (which hopefully the in-laws are in) which means we can use the laptop there & not be without a computer for a week when we stay.

Also BT have FREE helpdesk wheras you pay for Virgin.

Hopefully it will be a breeze - all i am worried about now is the outlook explorer POP settings for the BT email so OH can continue using the diary facility. Oh I hate mucking about with all this - Why do i do this.

Must pop back to work

Take care all

Anne,

This website from BT shows all the BT Fon hotspots which are basically small shared broadband hotspots from other BT users.
When you get your broadband, you have the option to leave a BT fon (Hotspot) open or close it as you wish but leaving it open does not affect your own service.
My son-in-law found a few of them when he was trying to connect at first.

The site explains it but you can use the map to search out the hotspots by clicking on the required area right down to individual streets so you can check up on your in-laws area.

http://www.btfon.com/

Hi
Cynthia
as Anne and Frank are too busy talking about Internet connections and speeds here is the answer to your question.

CPU stands for Computer Processor Unit., It's the box part of your Desktop Computer that contains every thing that runs your Computer ie- Hard Drive Mother Board, disc drives Ram etc.

Josie

:D

thanks Frank - they have Fon spots right by them - I take it people who use part of your broadband can't actually get in to your own system, its just the broadband access. I assume that your own system is encrypted for security.

If it all works then i should be able to keep in touch when we are away. I won't get withdrawl symptoms this time.

We didn't win the 107 million either not even the money back this time

Nice to see you here again Josie - hows the job situation?

Well back to looking for odds n ends and making sure all my old emails are clear.

Take care all