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Music-lover Gilbert Davies writes: "Suppose I know the first line or two of a song but need help in recalling the rest of the words.... do you know of any website which might bring up all the words if I just type in those I know?"

No problem, Gilbert, provided the lyrics you seek are published somewhere on the web. For instance, I have just typed Look into my eyes + Bryan Adams into www.google.com, and it brought up many copies of the lyrics to "Everything I Do," of which it is the first line. You can do the same thing at www.altavista.com, but there you'll need to put your phrase in inverted commas to unite it into one query. "Song lyrics" will also bring up many sites which specialise in them, like www.lyricsworld.com.

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Megumi Akahori seeks news from home: "Could you please tell me one or two Japanese website that I could read their news?"

That's the beauty of the web, Megumi – just as nostalgic Kiwi expats in London can read the Herald each morning, you too can scan the headlines at www.asahi.com, www.mainichi.co.jp or www.hokkoku.co.jp.

I'm assuming you want to read the news in Japanese, but if you'd like it in English try the Japan Times.

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Des Zein's HD is getting crowded: "I would like to know about deleting some of the internet files on my hard drive. Am I able to delete them? Will it affect…my internet activity?"

You can do it manually in Explorer, Des, but easier is clicking Tools/Internet Options and then 'Delete Files' in the Temporary Internet Files box. You probably won't notice the slightly longer time it takes at first to reload frequently-visited pages back into your browser's cache.

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Marie provides an illustration of why, when it comes to software, it's generally best just to grit your teeth and fork out for a legal copy: "I received 6 CD-ROM's from the Singapore markets [at a] very cheap price. The machine told me one was probably invalid and I've deleted that. Another was okay but there was no way to get out of the programme... in the end I had to switch off... also, I now have 3 QuickTime programmes on hard drive and I can't work out why I'd want them."

Pirated software can be full of glitches, Marie, as you've discovered, and there's no way to return it and no-one (apart from me) you can complain to. Write it off to experience. As for QuickTime, it's often used on the web to display video content – go to Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and uninstall two of them, or get rid of the lot and download a free, legal copy of the latest version.

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More of your Inbox questions will be answered tomorrow in CyberLunch, on air 12:00-1:00 with Murray Lindsay and Peter Sinclair on Classic Hits 97FM.

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