Another Internet tech retailer bites the dust.

I never shopped at Komplett but know lots of people did.

So if you are looking for a new online tech supplier try:-

Dabs:

Bolton based company backed by BT.

Link: www.dabs.com

Dabs sometimes have a liberal  interpretation of “next day delivery” but other than that are ok.

Or

Ebuyer:

I use Ebuyer and have never experienced any problem worth complaining about.

Link: www.ebuyer.com 

Tip: I check the prices at both these sites for I.T. consumables. It only takes a few seconds.

I get this one a lot.

Dell call that thing in the middle of the keyboard a “pointing stick”.

Look for the touch pad Icon in your taskbar.

It looks like this:-

Right Click and go to properties (see main pic above).

You can enable/disable the device from here.

If you don’t see the   icon on your taskbar.

Browse to C:\Program Files\Apoint

Run the Program Apoint.

You should see the option to disable the pointing stick

If you do not have a folder called C:\Program Files\Apoint

Visit www.support.dell.com and lookup your system.

Then drill down into:-

Install it then go into the icon and disable it.

This update released yesterday addresses a number of areas.

From the support documentation:

This update improves the performance, responsiveness, and reliability of Windows Vista in various scenarios. This update includes the following improvements on a Windows Vista SP1-based computer:

•This update improves the stability of Windows Vista SP1-based computers by addressing some crashes that may occur when you try to check e-mail by using a POP3 e-mail client such as Windows Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird. The crashes may occur on a Windows Vista SP1-based computer in the following scenario:

•Incoming POP3 and outgoing SMTP traffic monitoring is enabled.

•Both a third-party antivirus application and an antispyware application are installed, such as the following applications:

•ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

•SpySweeper by Webroot Software, Inc.

•This update improves the reliability of the Windows Vista SP1 based-computers by addressing some problems that occur when you delete user accounts by using the User Accounts item in Control Panel. When this problem occurs, the system may stop responding (hang).

•This update improves the reliability of Windows Vista SP1-based computers that experience issues in which large applications cannot run after the computer is turned on for extended periods of time. For example, when you try to start Excel 2007 after the computer is turned on for extended periods of time, a user may receive an error message that resembles the following:

EXCEL.EXE is not a valid Win32 application

•This update improves the reliability of Windows Vista SP1-based computers by reducing the number of crashes that may be caused by the Apple QuickTime thumbnail preview in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

•This update improves the performance of Windows Vista SP1-based computers by reducing audio and video (AV) stuttering. Such AV stuttering may occur when the audio or video component is streaming high definition content from a Windows Vista SP1-based computer that has a NVIDIA network adapter nForce driver version 67.5.4.0 that is installed to a Windows Media Center Extender device.

Link: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952709