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Post by static anonymity on Oct 7, 2005 13:40:39 GMT
A place to whack up any "help help my pooter's spazzing" posts, and equally any news about viruses doing the round and things of that ilk. *Please remember, if you have any queries about the
site itself then this is the thread to post in* Links to free anti-virus and free firewall.  |
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Post by static anonymity on Oct 7, 2005 14:08:48 GMT
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Post by Luco El Loco on Oct 13, 2005 11:19:06 GMT
It's not a security issue but it would be helpful if someone could tell me how to rectify this graphic problem: Now it used to be that you could set a specific colour in Paint to appear transparent, however since getting XP I can't find the tab that lets you choose this function. Or put another way, I was making an icon and filled the background in bright green, and wanted to set the green to transparent but can't find anything that let's me make that setting.  |
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Post by Graham on Oct 13, 2005 11:24:49 GMT
It's not a security issue but it would be helpful if someone could tell me how to rectify this graphic problem: Now it used to be that you could set a specific colour in Paint to appear transparent, however since getting XP I can't find the tab that lets you choose this function. Or put another way, I was making an icon and filled the background in bright green, and wanted to set the green to transparent but can't find anything that let's me make that setting. I've been trying that too in Paint, and i don't think there is a tab in the XP version for it  |
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Post by Luco El Loco on Oct 13, 2005 12:14:00 GMT
At least I wasn't being blind then... ;D That was one of the best functions about Paint! I'll let you know if I find anything else that does the job. |
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Post by distortion on Oct 13, 2005 14:01:59 GMT
you can remove backgrounds in .gif format pictures with the Microsoft GIF Animator...
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Post by static anonymity on Oct 17, 2005 22:10:54 GMT
Not sure how much truth this claims holds, or if it's just another panic-spam forward, but I'm posting it just to be safe. can anyone shed any light on whether it's genuine or not?
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Post by Luco El Loco on Oct 17, 2005 23:08:10 GMT
Probably panic spam but watching out for someone emailing power point presentations can't be a bad thing.
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Post by Martin on Oct 18, 2005 15:09:42 GMT
It's spam. You can tell by the way it says 'This is not a joke!'.
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Post by Luco El Loco on Oct 26, 2005 21:39:16 GMT
Okay, I have another problem. On my old computer which had Windows ME my Bluetooth dongle worked fine, but on my AMD Athlon Beast and Windows XP the computer doesn't register the dongle properly and can send data to my phone but won't pick it up from the phone. Gah!
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Post by distortion on Oct 27, 2005 11:36:46 GMT
i can't help with the problem, but what a word 'dongle' is!  |
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Post by Martin on Oct 27, 2005 14:21:45 GMT
I can't help either, sorry, I litereally know nothing at all about bluetooth. But I agree with Ash |
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Post by static anonymity on Oct 27, 2005 22:49:44 GMT
I was pondering over whether "dongle" was the technical term, but didn't mention anything so as not to appear stupid  The only thing I would think of checking is if you have a "send but don't receive" option selected on either ye bluetooth whatsit or erm... other thing. |
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Post by Luco El Loco on Oct 28, 2005 12:37:55 GMT
Good thought... but there isn't anything like that. And believe it or not it is called a Bluetooth USB Dongle. I did find there is help on the cd which I shall check... I miss the days of big ol' paper manuals!
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Post by static anonymity on Dec 9, 2005 13:03:13 GMT
"I am reminded that there is another virus circulating that hides itself in a message that says something like 'Your IP has been logged' & supposedly comes from the CIA or similar security service.
Yes, it's another virus so don't open any such e-mails & delete them straight away"
Because some twonk is bound to fall for it.
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