jakedude182

Hi, I have lil knowledge of the networking, but have a toshiba laptop and had a similar problem. It was down to a windows update, try uninstalling a few of the most recent ones and checking for compatibility issues on their online site. , jakedude :)

No I don't think that there is any way to time the typing speed for a piece of text in ms word 2003. However you could go to a free online typing test e.g senselang - then put in your piece of text, and test your speed. Also for the documents with pure text and with other things in like images. I would imagine in your company the doccuments will be of symilar nature therefore the ones without images will be of a symilar file size in kb ? consequently the ones with images will be larger than those :) , jakedude :)

It is likely that a recent driver you installed, or was updated. Or some software put on recently is the reason behind it not starting up properly. Nice one for trying any available setup or recovery options without the disk.. As you say the windows setup disk did not do anything, then you need to set the boot priority to the cd/dvd drive in your bios to boot from that as the first priority, and putting the hard drive as the second. Now when you startup you will need to click any button to start the disk up. I am not that farmiliar with this OS, but in the previous ones there are recovery options/windows recovery consosle or somthing. If you can get to a selection of some sort try startup repair. All the best, jakedude :)

I always shutdown, but occasionally leave on standby for xp because it is annoying when booting having to be at the pc to select the os.

hi to all those from pchf :) , jakedude182