Calling all computer genius's - i recently converted to broadband but cannot save files to favourites - well some work and some dont-it does some message saying the target of this internet shortcut is not valid.
Have theory that something to do with Microsoft Vista which has had much flak thrown at it - what makes me really cross was on dial up favourites worked every time 

Do you notice anything that these pages have in common? (for instance, you mightn't be able to bookmark your shopping basket page in amazon, or a page that gives your flight details on ryanair, or such things; for such matters, it might be better to just save the page to your hard-disk instead).

Officially, I love my Mac but go off my PCs periodically. Today has been one such day: late last night one of the slave-drives in the desktop developed a problem after I'd backed up some files from another drive: when I switched on this morning the the whole unit refused to go past Windows start-up: it's taken a deal of coaxing to wake it up at all, and only now have I been able to finish running chkdsk on the main drive to get it back to normal, whilst the F drive (appropriate initial letter) might just be sorted by tomorrow morning if I'm lucky. It has already taken all day, dang it!

John, I've avoided Vista like the plague, so I'm probably not the right person to ask on that front; if you ever do need major help, though, I do have a friend in Warwick who is a PC consultant. Usually I'd expect a newly installed IE programme to wipe out all traces of its predecessor, though: I've just had IE7 foisted on me without a by-your-leave, and I'm not convinced of its stability. Maybe you should try Firefox.... 

I keep promising myself I'm going to order one of the Dell laptops with Ubuntu already installed, could get round to it any day now.

Kitty, might be worth considering partitioning your hard drive and having a dual boot Vista/Ubuntu m/c. There's a partioning live CD available to do the job. I installed Kubuntu on my old desktop, partitioned the HD then tried to re-install Windows ME from the CD which came with the machine - it wouldn't work since the Windows disc wanted the whole HD. Since I wasn't that attached to ME anyway, I didn't bother to go back to square one.

I found that there's quite a bit of work you have to do if you install Ubuntu/Kubuntu from a live CD - I can't remember everything, though I've got a note of it all somewhere. One fairly major thing is that there's no mp3 support, you have to add that yourself.

Well, that’s it!!  Another keyboard bites the dust.  I switched over from the black one (which has no visible letters left and which sustained damage on the weekend due to a small    amount of coffee) to the transparent one which again has hardly any letters and is now throwing me about all over the place.  (I am having to type this is Word Processor and back spacing all the time.  My new computer at work, which I only got in September, already the black keyboard is getting faint.  <sigh emotion> and it seems the only option is black, black or black, so will get onto our stationery suppliers tomorrow. 

I tried to send    a PM to someone and before I had finished it decided to post it, so sorry about that.  (you know who you are!)

Slight panic just now as I've been running a selective scan of my hard disc using avast! Antivirus and it said it had found a trojan called FakeAV-C

It was however in the quarantine folder of AVG Anti-Spyware, which I also run, so panic over. I've done a bit of checking and it's some sort of Adware which calls itself "System Doctor" - one of those things that says 'install this and get it to check your computer for nasties' but is itself a nasty, displaying pop-ups etc. AVG only ever finds tracking cookies on my PC so presumably avast! is finding something in one of those that it doesn't like or else it might be a false positive.

I've also checked, just to be safe, that all the signs that this trojan is present, such as the files and registry entries that it creates, aren't there.

I'm running only avast! as a full time antivirus program ie to check emails as they're downloaded etc. You're right that you shouldn't have 2 such programmes running at the same time.

However I also run adhoc scans of my hard drive using Spybot - Search & Destroy, AVG Anti-Spyware and Ad-Aware (as well as avast!) since these look for spyware, adware etc and each of them can pick up certain things that the others don't.