As well as reviewing hardware and software we’ll also be answering your technical support questions and our first one comes from Sue Anderson from Nottingham. Sue writes,

“Recently we moved from Stoke-on-Trent to Birmingham because my husband who is a struggling street entertainer felt that the larger population of Birmingham should mean a tenfold increase in his weekly wage. Unfortunately that has not turned out to be the case and it appears that the people of Birmingham have not warmed to my husbands unique brand of street entertainment in which he combines the ancient Japanese art of paper folding (Origami), juggling and freestyle jazz dance. In his defense I would add that the weather conditions in Birmingham are not conducive to an optimum performance of this rare art form.

On the day of our move we carefully packed our much loved PC in a box and placed it in the back of our car. We were very careful and wrapped the PC and monitor in bubble wrap. Placing them in boxes we then packed soft cushions around the boxes to further aid their protection.

Imagine our dismay when we arrived in Birmingham and after unpacking and reconnecting our PC hardware we discovered the icons on our desktop had fallen off somewhere in transit. We’ve search the boxes we packed the PC in and even the back of the car but we can’t find them anywhere.

What should we do? Is there anywhere we can buy spare desktop icons to replace the ones we’ve lost?”

Well Sue, first of all let me assure you, you’re not alone. If I were to collect all the desktop icons lost in transport during an unspecified given period I’d have enough desktop icons to fill a receptacle of unspecified proportions and that’s no small amount let me tell you. Before moving the PC you should have either installed Shytechs Perma Desktop Icon Patch or have taken a screenshot of your desktop and set that as your desktop wallpaper. Unfortunately your only course of action now is to completely reformat your hard drive and reinstall all your software over again. During the installation of each piece of software you’ll be asked if you would like to place a shortcut icon on your desktop, answer yes to replace the desktop icons you lost during transit. I hope that helps Sue, be more careful next time. Anyone with any sense knows that moving a PC can cause this sort of shit to happen, you’re obviously a bit of an idiot.