Well, how often is it the case? Re-start and ...the DVD drive is back and I have used it OK.

Very many thanks for your comments and help.

Paul: I have not yet done what you suggest as I do not follow it all and am somewhat concerned about messing up my system! (don't I need to specify the drive letter involved, for example?)

I am...

I put a previously recorded CD drive into my DVD/CD drive, erased it and now find that it drive shows up in Explorer as a CD drive.

How do I re-set the drive for DVDs? I have tried device manager...

Thanks for your posts Denis. I am not really into adding code but I can answer some of your queries about what I am doing.

Yes, outlook does put up a window if there is an unsent email (MS...

I sometimes click and shut outlook by mistake. I have put a dummy message in the outbox to allow me to avoid closing. I cannot find anywhere now to set outlook so that it checks the outbox before...

Thanks for your comments, Jimbo. I do use nordvpn and have tried to get into BT but incoming mail is still blocked. However, I tried again just now and all was OK so I was clearly on a server that...

Well, after a long time the issue with BT is now resolved. For 'reasons of security' as I was coming into the BT site from 'abroad' (read outside the UK) access to the BT server for incoming emails...

Thanks Denis; email now withdrawn.

Thanks also Samuria; look as though I get on to my Greek ISP as a first stop now. Then...maybe BT will offer other port numbers...

Alan

Hi; I think that what I have is a BT problem but am coming here to see if my issues are recognised by anyone on this forum.

I am a BT customer for broadband and email and all has been working well...

Thank you for the tip/reminder. Having found the way ahead I now realise how I could have seen that myself!

Cheers

Thanks both for your comments. The status bar was not visible at all (that's why I came to the forum as all I found everywhere started with 'click on the status bar'!
The trick you suggested...

I find that today I do not have a status bar in MSWord - so no page count, zoom,etc.: word 2019

I am not aware of doing anything to change any options; any ideas on how to get the SB back? Has...

Denis
Great; all solved. The depth of actions, automated or not, is greater than I had realised.
Thanks for your quick and helpful response.

Alan

I have found how to edit 'custom.dic' and have removed some oddities that had crept in.

However one problem (that I know of) remains. In MSWord, I type the correct word and when I hit return it...

Oh dear; in the end it was really so simple! The Wacom program has an 'autostart' option in the file menu; turn that off and all is well!

Thank you for your helpful comments and for mentioning...

Hi; thanks for your helpful reply. I have run Autoruns and found three entries for 'Wacom'.

One is "Wacom Professional Service: Driver for Wacom Tablets" and the other two are drivers that are...

I have loaded up a Wacom pad and am very happy with it.
BUT
The Wacom desktop centre app automatically loads at startup. As I started to use the pad, this was helpful but I have now created a...

OK, thank you for that; I will see what I can do!

I am bumping this thread in case someone new reads it and has any ideas.

The Google Drive tab with the photos appears at each boot in my duckduckgo browser. I have searched my PC and found many...

I am not sure. The photographs appear as they did when I first used the link provided - which I assume is that of Google Drive. But the display page is certainly a tab on my duckduckgo browser.
...

Thanks
No; I copied the photos (some were in a zip file) and then unzipped/stored locally.

My son sent me a link to photographs he had loaded on Google Drive - which I have never used myself. I found the photos OK and downloaded the ones I wanted and then deleted the page in my browser,...

I am sorry to say that I have nothing to help you. I brought in a friend who works 'in the business' and he tried all sorts of things without success. Then, after quite a while, I could suddenly...

OK, I have sorted the problem by getting the remote PC to 'not check passwords'. This was necessary despite the fact that the computer concerned did not have a password set.

Thanks for the help.

OK, I have created an account on the networked PC but I was not asked for a password. On that PC I can see the account I created and it says it is password protected; but I cannot see how to change...