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Welcome to InBox, where we attempt to answer your internet questions.

Malcolm seeks directions to the Land of a Thousand Lattes: "I obtained an address for a beaut view of the doings in Ponsonby Rd from your column, which I viewed with delight. I have since lost the address. Would you please give me the website address again."

It's one of NZ retail's finest interactive sites, Malcolm, and youll find it through the link below. It's a model for other complexes, so it's a shame more of the street's cafes and retailers don't take advantage of it.

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"Your correspondent, Bev McGregor, can find a host of Mac bridge links at Great Bridge Links," writes Paul Litterick. "I don't like to gripe," he goes on, in that slightly bristling tone Mac users tend to adopt if they feel their operating system of choice is being slighted, "but PC users always assume that you can do less on a Mac than on their computers. I know my Mac is more flexible, efficient and user-friendly than a Wintel PC, and I don't have to deal with the hideous crashes, cryptic error messages and software limitations which your correspondents report every week ... and (without wishing to rub salt into your wounds) I have never lost any mail messages." Ow!

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Kevin Montague writes that when he creates a letter in MS Word 97 and starts the letter with a date (say "23 January 2001"), "a hint box briefly appears at the end of the date I've typed and it displays as 2001-01-23 (i.e. whatever the current date is, but in American format). If I hit the "Enter" key the date I've just typed changes to 23 January 2001-01-23. I have to then delete the "-01-23" characters to correct the date appearance ... I've been all through the MS Word and Control Panels options, but I can't find where I turn off this annoying feature".

Go to Insert/Date and Time, Kevin, and you'll find a window which let's you choose which format you prefer to use as a default - I use "English [UK]." Or you can manually select from the very large range of different displays that are on offer.

From Trevor Allsebrook: "I have an IBM I notepad with 4Gb hard drive separated into C & D drives. My D drive is now running at only 350Mb of free space. I have tried moving everything possible to my D drive to free up space and seem to be left with only the programs that came with the machine, Microsoft Professional 2000, yet it is still filling my C drive. How can I free up more space on my C drive? I have also cleaned out my cookies and temporary internet files, defragged, etc."

Uh-oh, Trevor, you're the latest victim of MS bloatware. If you've already moved or deleted everything you can spare, I'm afraid you need to buy a larger drive or have a supplementary one installed. These days, 4Gb isn't a lot - I'm feeling cramped at 13.5!

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Ponsonby Road

Great Bridge Links