The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[buksida]

Some of these laptops need their own "networking suite" software installed before wifi works, try reinstalling the Tosh software and drivers for LAN/WiFi adapters.

[barrys]

I've just bought a truemove aircard and connected it to my PC and everything is working fine except.......

I use Thunderbird to receive/send emails using multiple accounts.
Does anyone know what outgoing SMTP server I have to use to make this work with the new aircard?

Thanks a lot for your help.

[buksida]

If using your own account to send it'll be mail.huahincruises.com SMTP port 3535

If using the ISP it'll be mxauth.truemail.co.th SMTP port 25

[barrys]

Tried the ISP SMTP with port 25 but it said it required authentication and wouldn't send - maybe because I don't have an email account with them?!

I then tried the huahincruises setting and it worked straightaway

Thanks a million buksi

[Gus]

Thanks for all the help, especially buksida.
I filled in the consent forms by hand, managed to get them scanned, saved and then attached to an e-mail to Bangkok Hua Hin hospital
This week the hospital sent me all the info I needed, I can now pass this on to my consultant when I see him on the 27th.
Hoping that with a fair wind and a following sea I will be returning to town in mid November.

[margaretcarnes]

A couple of days ago I found about 10 messages in my inbox - all from a gmail address, and all the same message.
The sender is known to me, and other messages from that address haven't been a problem at all.
But this batch of duplicate messages won't delete.
Yesterday when I opened the first one to delete it my system 'hung' - couldn't sign out - just had to abandon and close down. Tonight all is OK, except for those same damned messages, which just won't delete.
Any ideas please?

[MrPlum]

...this batch of duplicate messages won't delete.

Are you receiving your emails to your local hard drive or accessing them online? If online it could be a google problem, which you will need to report.

Instead of deleting, try moving them to your spam folder.

[margaretcarnes]

...this batch of duplicate messages won't delete.

Are you receiving your emails to your local hard drive or accessing them online? If online it could be a google problem, which you will need to report.

Instead of deleting, try moving them to your spam folder.

Errr..... accessing online I guess. Firefox. Sorry Mr P I'm not understanding 'receiving emails to local hard drive'?
But will try to move them to spam thanks.

[lomuamart]

I bought an external hard drive some time ago but the computer didn't seem to recognise it in as much as there was no dialog box that opened up when I plugged it in. The light comes on and I can feel the drive running. It's just been sitting in a drawer for ages now.
Was talking to someone yesterday and he suggest opening up "My Computer" and seeing if it was there and lo and behold it was as G (external) drive but when I open that I get a message that says the disk is not formatted - do I want to format it now?
I've searched "formatting" and it seems I must do this to get the drive working but it looks a bit complicated. As my existing drives are getting full and the computer is churning along slowly, I'm keen to give this external drive another go and see if I can get it working.
Any help on this would be appreciated.

[chopsticks]

Usually, after selecting the chosen drive eg. G, (left click once to highlight it but not a double click which will 'open' it) you just need to right click and scroll down to select format and continue from there. Normally they are pre-formatted when you buy them so it could be some other problem but it's worth trying.

[margaretcarnes]

...this batch of duplicate messages won't delete.

Are you receiving your emails to your local hard drive or accessing them online? If online it could be a google problem, which you will need to report.

Instead of deleting, try moving them to your spam folder.

Moved to spam - thanks again it worked.

[buksida]

As mentioned, right click the drive (make sure it is the correct one else you'll wipe out your own data) - half way down the list will be the format option, select quick format and NTFS. Should take a minute or two and the drive will be useable.

[PET]

I have found Mozilla Firefox very slow to get on line. I have up dated to the latest version but no change.

The only matter that I have dealt with recently was to forward 200 or so emails + lengthy attachments originally received from a lawyer to another person who needed them because his computer had crashed, however I do not see why this should have any effect. I have also removed all videos & movies onto another hard drive.

Any suggestions?

[buksida]

Email is unrelated to browsing. Have a look at this post which describes common issues with Firefox: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22382&start=13

[PET]

Email is unrelated to browsing. Have a look at this post which describes common issues with Firefox: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22382&start=13

I have reverted to FF 20.0.1 and removed Adobi Flash and browsing is now fast, however my on-line Start UP remains quite slow. I have gone to 'msconfig' and removed all except my AVG anti virus - any ideas ?