Free PC Help Forum Members Area

HELPFUL COMPUTER INFORMATION. Initial information that would help us in diagnosing your Computer issues FASTER. Make and model of Computer, Desktop, Laptop, Netbook etc. Bought or Custom built Desktop. What Operating system, and what Hardware you have installed. If you aren’t sure, then a small program called “SPECCY” Free version will assist us. Download from HERE, then post a screen shot in your Thread. First off we need a screen shot of your “SPECCY” index page. This will give the Technicians a good starting point. How to post a screen shot on PC HELP FORUM is covered HERE. We recommend Windows own "SNIPPING TOOL"to post a Screen Shot…

How to Insert an Image in a PC HELP FORUM Post. Notes. PC HELP FORUM accepts images in JPEG, JPG, GIF & PNG formats. This Tutorial will be in two sections. Section A: shows you one way to resize an Image suitable for most web sites. Section B: shows how to insert that resized image in a forum post. SECTION A: Resize an image in Windows paint. Large images need to be resized before posting on a web page. Ideal size max of around 640 X 450 fits most monitors. There are many programs which resize images, Windows paint is good. The path up to Windows7 to locate Paint: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint. The path in …

HOW TO POST A YOUTUBE VIDEO ON PC HELP FORUM. 1. Select the video from Youtube you wish to post. 2. Copy the URL from the Address Bar > “CTRL+C” or “Right Click Copy” 3. Paste the URL in your Reply Post > “CTRL+V” or “Right Click Paste” 4. The URL Code will only appear in your Post initially. 5. When you post, the Video will appear like this example below. NOTE. Copying the URL from the Share Button gives you a live Youtube Link only in your reply post.

How to Insert a Quote and Multi Quotes in a Forum Post. NOTES. SECTION A: Shows you how to insert one quote, or part thereof in your reply post. SECTION B: Shows you how to add multiple Quotes, or part thereof to your reply post. When replying to the last post in a Thread, it is NOT necessary to “QUOTE”. Only "QUOTE" posts in their entirety if you really need to. SECTION A: How to insert one "QUOTE", or part thereof in your reply post. Find the member's post you wish to "QUOTE" and insert in your reply post. The members post will appear at the top of your Reply Post. If you don't wish to insert the members post in it's entirety, highlight wh…

This site, like many... allows BBCode to be used for formatting posts etc. BBCodes are simply code 'tags' that you can add to your posts that allows you to change the formatting of the text. You can add 'underlines', make text bold, change colors, colors, colors etc. There are a number of ways that you can achieve this: Manual method Code 'tags' are in 2 parts... the opening 'tag' and the closing 'tag' ( you need to add both for the formatting to work) Here's a small example of 'tags': Let's see how this works in practise.. If you were to type this... Would appear like this.... This is bold Just the same with italic..... Would appear like…

Sometimes you may find that a file is too large to post normally or you may have multiple files to post. The answer to this is to Attach them. Type your reply first in the reply box and then click on the Upload a File button. On the next screen, navigate to the file you need to attach. Clicking on the file will select it for attaching. For demonstration purposes we'll select the fixlist. The file will now be added to your reply box. Click on Post Reply. To attach multiple files: If more than one file needs to be attached..... Instead of clicking on Post Reply, click on Upload a File again and repeat the process. Then when all the fil…