Aunty Virus 23rd August 2010
Alan from Benidorm says:
I thought my experience might interest your readers. I wanted to download photos from my Nokia phone to my computer but was told by Nokia that they did not make a data transfer cable and the only way was to use Bluetooth which my computer does not have. What they did not tell me was that you can easily buy a Bluetooth dongle which works with your computer. I paid £1.55 incl postage (yes £1.55!) through Amazon and it was easy to install (I had to download drivers but the computer did all the brain work for me) and now I can easily download my pics. I don't think you can get Amazon in Spain, but the packet is only normal letter size so it would be cheap and easy to get someone in the UK to order it and send it on. I have just ordered another one for Spain and the price has dropped to £1.45 incl postage!
Aunty Says:
Hi Alan. It’s not that I didn’t believe you but £1.45 for a Bluetooth dongle! I had to check for myself and ended up ordering 3 of them. As an added note I recently discovered a service that Offex are offering where you can get stuff sent to their Offex Kent depot and they will deliver it to Spain. This gets round the problem of ‘UK Mainland only’ delivery and works out cheaper than most of the online international delivery prices.
Owen via email asks:
Dear Aunty for some reason all the cookies on my computer are disabled. Can you tell me how to enable them please?
Aunty Says:
Hi Owen. This will vary depending on which browser you use so I’ll cover the two most common ones. In Internet Explorer you need to click the Tools button and ‘Internet Options’. Click on the Privacy tab and move the slider down to enable all cookies. On the menu bar in Firefox click on ‘tools’ ‘options’ and click on the privacy tab. There should then be an option to tick the box ‘accept cookies from sites’.
I thought my experience might interest your readers. I wanted to download photos from my Nokia phone to my computer but was told by Nokia that they did not make a data transfer cable and the only way was to use Bluetooth which my computer does not have. What they did not tell me was that you can easily buy a Bluetooth dongle which works with your computer. I paid £1.55 incl postage (yes £1.55!) through Amazon and it was easy to install (I had to download drivers but the computer did all the brain work for me) and now I can easily download my pics. I don't think you can get Amazon in Spain, but the packet is only normal letter size so it would be cheap and easy to get someone in the UK to order it and send it on. I have just ordered another one for Spain and the price has dropped to £1.45 incl postage!
Aunty Says:
Hi Alan. It’s not that I didn’t believe you but £1.45 for a Bluetooth dongle! I had to check for myself and ended up ordering 3 of them. As an added note I recently discovered a service that Offex are offering where you can get stuff sent to their Offex Kent depot and they will deliver it to Spain. This gets round the problem of ‘UK Mainland only’ delivery and works out cheaper than most of the online international delivery prices.
Owen via email asks:
Dear Aunty for some reason all the cookies on my computer are disabled. Can you tell me how to enable them please?
Aunty Says:
Hi Owen. This will vary depending on which browser you use so I’ll cover the two most common ones. In Internet Explorer you need to click the Tools button and ‘Internet Options’. Click on the Privacy tab and move the slider down to enable all cookies. On the menu bar in Firefox click on ‘tools’ ‘options’ and click on the privacy tab. There should then be an option to tick the box ‘accept cookies from sites’.
James via email asks:
Hi I wonder if you could help me? I recently bought a new Acer laptop with Windows7 from a shop in Spain and the shop changed it to English from Spanish but now I keep getting a notice saying “This Computer Is Not Running Genuine Windows” They tried to reinstall it but it still comes up and now they say they are waiting for a new disc to reinstall it again and not to worry as it is a common problem. I didn't get a disc with the laptop but I am told this is quite normal now and not all computers come with discs. They also said the problem arose because they changed the language over. Could you let me know what you think and what I should do?
Aunty Says:
Hello James. I would take the laptop back and ask them nicely to install a genuine copy of Windows that passes the validation check on the MS website. Bill Gates’s cronies have spent millions of hours/dollars building security features into Windows 7 to crack down on the counterfeiters, so unless you are fairly computer savvy, those good old days of free copies of Windows are history. Most new laptops don’t come with any discs these days, but they all prompt you to create a set of restore DVDs (usually 2 or 3) incase you need to reinstall your system back to its original state.
Dave from San Fulgencio asks:
Dear Aunty. For years I have been able to upload photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery, to attach them to an e-mail. At the moment I am getting a message below the toolbars that says; “IE (Internet Explorer) has blocked this site from using an ActiveX control in an unsafe manner. As a result this page might not display correctly”. When I click it, it displays this message; “What is the risk?” and “Information bar help” but neither gives me info to correct this problem. A couple of days before this I had been using some streaming to find a live football match. Do you think the computer may have picked up a bug from this? I did scan with SuperAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes but picked nothing up. On another topic a few weeks ago did you mention that you did not like to do Registry Scans, can you tell me why?
Aunty Says:
I think you’ll need to adjust the way IE is prompting you regarding ActiveX plugins. Go to the ‘tools’ menu option in IE and choose ‘internet options’. Select the ‘security’ tab and click the ‘custom level’ button. Scroll down until you see the option "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting" and chance the setting to ‘prompt’. Click OK etc. and restart IE. You should now get the option to allow this active script.