Mother in law has brought a new little dell computer, but everytime she starts the thing up she gets the windows live page up - see picture, can anyone tell me how to stop this happening - Im an Apple boy myself (even though that makes no difference - still a computer numpty)

Active desktop thingy on the go and windows set as the home page?

right click on the desktop somewhere and under properties make sure that its not some on line nonsense

set homepage in your browser to blank or search engine( and bin IE# whatever for firefox or chrome or something)

if adrian wasnt fannying about with suspension he could do something usefull

Sean

thanks Sean, nothing under properties that I can see

http://www.ubuntu.com

Seriously, I've always avoided WindowsLive - and, unless there's a very good reason not to, I'd just uninstall the damn thing now - along with a lot of the rest of the crapware that gets pre-installed on new PCs. I'm quite happy for the software houses to subsidise my new hardware - it's very generous of them. But I don't want their junk to slow my machine right down.

Start - Control Panel - Programs.

Or just say "Soddit", and reinstall Windows from scratch - it's amazing how much better new domestic-grade PCs usually run with a clean Win install.

Think of it as the PC equivalent of peeling the dealer stickers off the rear window of your new car...

Many thanks Sean & Toomany

all cured and now back to how it should be thank goodness

cheers

i get this all the time with my parents

wish they would bring out a super simple PC for the over 75s with" start" "stop" "T'Internet" "Photos" in big buttons and nothing else

no upgrades of IEwhatever to the next whatever.01 no critical security warnings etc etc

i swear when mine cant get it to go they go off to the shops and just buy a more complicated one with more widows shite on it
Sean

Yes, my in-laws do just that (buy new pc every 6 months or so). Drives me insane...

my brother in law has set it up for her, every time you want to do something PASSWORD IN, check her emails - the long way round to log in, she won't let me change anything as she knows how to do it now!

thanks again for the help

Have done ....http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8352606.stm t

There're lots of simplified Linux distos out there and some small and light ones designed to run on older 'puters making them more snappy than a cheap PC with bloated Vista

If I had old PCs instead of Macs I'd be putting http://www.vectorlinux.com on 'em!

<ahem> I have no idea what you lot are talking about, I thought this was a 2cv forum using English?