IT Queries: Computer problems answered

I’m an A.B.C. listener,and was wondering if someone could tell Me, if Windows Live OneCare,is good enough to look after My computer…..by its self?

Microsoft don’t have a good record in the anti virus field. Their first attempt, Microsoft Anti-Virus, was a dismal failure in the 1990s.

Sadly it appears OneCare is faring no better. The virus testing website AV Comparatives rated OneCare as a failure in it’s tests last February.

On the whole, we’d have to say the $50 a year would be better spent on other products like PC-Cillin, AVG or  Computer Associates.

Through my own foolishness I corrupted my laptop so badly that I had to reformat it. Since then my cd roms will not autoplay. I have made sure that the autoplay settings are exactly the same as the other 2 laptops I have , but still I have to manually find anything on the cds to make them work. I Can still copy to cds and dvds, but autoplay will not go.

It can be a number of things that can be causing this. First, open My Computer and right-click on the CD icon, choose “properties” and click click “AutoPlay“.

On the AutoPlay options, there are different types of files the computer can autoplay ranging from music files through to CD burning. Go through the list and choose the program or action you want the computer to do for each type of disk.

If in doubt, tick the box that says “prompt me each time to choose an action”.

If this doesn’t work, it might be the AutoPlay feature is defective. Microsoft have a tool for fixing this at their website. Download this and run it.

It’s frustrating not having the AutoPlay function, so it’s worth spending some time on getting it working.