No, no option for that. I have reinstalled it to see, but no. Steam is available for all users by default it seems, it puts an icon on the desktop for all users. But when you go into a game within Steam it comes up with a message asking 'Do you want this game to make changes to your computer?' and asks for the administrator password.

And you enter the password, the game runs? When you quit and restart the game what happens?

Yup, the game runs. If you click 'cancel', the game runs anyway, it just keeps throwing the password screen up and minimises the game.

Sounds like it is a Steam issue mate.

We've been with Virgin for years, through Cable & Wireless and NTL branding before that, in South Manchester. Never had any reliability problems whatsoever, tv is rock solid and the interweb comes through at the advertised speed (i.e. pay for 10mb, get 10mb). Very rarely have any kind of interweb outage, and it's generally resolved by a box reboot (the set top box for the tv is also the router for the internet). You hear horror stories about their customer support, but we've genuinely never had issues with them, on the very small number of times we've needed to call them (no more than 2 or 3 times in maybe 10 years).

We don't have HD, so can't comment on that, but they seem to offer most of the channels that sky do. It seems most of the main channel;s that sky offer are also on Virgin, but some of the niche ones aren't available, but how many shopping and fishing channels can you really need?!

afternoon folks, been text by a friend who is considering buying a HP Pavillion dm-1 ([url=http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/hewletpack-pavilion-dm1-4027sa-11-6-laptop-silver-11290967-pdt.htmlhere[/url), I'm going to have a proper look later tonight but I just wondered what people think, can she get better for similar money?

All laptop sales summaries should include 'Can it run Football Manager well?' and a tick box. This one can by the way.

My hotmail E-Mail account has started sending spam type e-mails to my address book over the last couple of weeks but I've only just noticed.

I can't remember clicking a link in one I've received - I get them all the time from various contacts, and don't really know what to do, apart from get a new account which I don't really want to do as I'm applying for placements.

Firefox keeps freezing. Top of page says "Firefox not responding". It can stay like this for 5 minutes or more. This is Firefox 7.0.1 on a desktop PC running Vista.

Happens particularly when I'm downloading. CPU runs at about 62% during the hang period, with Firefox using about 45%. Other applications continue to run normally. Seemed to start doing this at about Firefox v5. I've tried the advice offered on help pages, like reducing max network connections in about:config from 256 (the default) to 50, cleared all data (many times) with CCleaner, run the Places Maintenance add-on, frequently run Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials without finding any problems. I suppose the one thing I haven't tried is uninstalling and re-installing Firefox. Might this help and would I need to clear any of its left-over config data before reinstalling?

Unless anybody on here has a golden bullet to solve this, I'm thinking of moving to another browser - any recommendations welcome. I suppose I'll miss some of Firefox's add-ons like ad blocking and Noscript but I can live without them. TIA.

You've two problems there...

Firefox does get its knickers in a twist sometimes when you upgrade, back up your bookmarks, uninstall Firefox and delete everything in your user profile, download the new version (8 I think) and reinstall any addons, Vista however you are stuck with

OK thanks BigG, I'll try tomorrow. I use Foxmarks or whatever it calls itself now so that should provide a bookmarks backup.

Oh, and I have a Windows 7 upgrade waiting to be installed, though so far I've had no apparent Vista-related issues.

Quote BroncOnIon="BroncOnIon"Firefox keeps freezing. Top of page says "Firefox not responding". It can stay like this for 5 minutes or more. This is Firefox 7.0.1 on a desktop PC running Vista. Happens particularly when I'm downloading. CPU runs at about 62% during the hang period, with Firefox using about 45%. Other applications continue to run normally. Seemed to start doing this at about Firefox v5. I've tried the advice offered on help pages, like reducing max network connections in about:config from 256 (the default) to 50, cleared all data (many times) with CCleaner, run the Places Maintenance add-on, frequently run Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials without finding any problems. I suppose the one thing I haven't tried is uninstalling and re-installing Firefox. Might this help and would I need to clear any of its left-over config data before reinstalling? Unless anybody on here has a golden bullet to solve this, I'm thinking of moving to another browser - any recommendations welcome. I suppose I'll miss some of Firefox's add-ons like ad blocking and Noscript but I can live without them. TIA.'" The latest versions of Firefox have introduced Hardware acceleration, whereby your graphics card takes over the browser work from the CPU, sometime it can be better to disable this. Especially if your graphics card isnt upto scratch or has buggy or old drivers link on how to do it here www.worldstart.com/speed-up-fire ... eleration/ No guarantees but there was a bug where with certain AMD Graphics cards were it used to get effectively stuck in loop and you would see the GPU utilisation stuck at 99% with the graphics card getting nice and warm.

Quote BroncOnIon="BroncOnIon"Firefox keeps freezing. Top of page says "Firefox not responding". It can stay like this for 5 minutes or more. This is Firefox 7.0.1 on a desktop PC running Vista. Happens particularly when I'm downloading. CPU runs at about 62% during the hang period, with Firefox using about 45%. Other applications continue to run normally. Seemed to start doing this at about Firefox v5. I've tried the advice offered on help pages, like reducing max network connections in about:config from 256 (the default) to 50, cleared all data (many times) with CCleaner, run the Places Maintenance add-on, frequently run Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials without finding any problems. I suppose the one thing I haven't tried is uninstalling and re-installing Firefox. Might this help and would I need to clear any of its left-over config data before reinstalling? Unless anybody on here has a golden bullet to solve this, I'm thinking of moving to another browser - any recommendations welcome. I suppose I'll miss some of Firefox's add-ons like ad blocking and Noscript but I can live without them. TIA.'" The latest versions of Firefox have introduced Hardware acceleration, whereby your graphics card takes over the browser work from the CPU, sometime it can be better to disable this. Especially if your graphics card isnt upto scratch or has buggy or old drivers link on how to do it here www.worldstart.com/speed-up-fire ... eleration/ No guarantees but there was a bug where with certain AMD Graphics cards were it used to get effectively stuck in loop and you would see the GPU utilisation stuck at 99% with the graphics card getting nice and warm.