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Another day eaten by the attempts to get the new laptop up and running as the working machine. As per usual it took an hour and much swearing to get Turnpike installed correctly, but I think I've now got everything that needed to be moved off the old machine. So I unplugged the old desktop, dumped it on the floor, and started setting up the port replicator. You know, for the price the thing cost you'd think it would be just a tad less flimsy... It also doesn't have a mike port, as far as I can tell. A line in and a line out, but no mike socket. Right.

So I am sitting here staring at my monitor and wondering why it looks crappy all of a sudden. The answer is because the laptop is running it at the same resolution as the laptop's own screen. Can I find a way to persuade it to run the monitor at the monitor's native resolution? No, of course not. Think I'll wait until the person familiar with XP comes home, and let him do battle with it.

Oh, and I need to work out how to tell it to use a @#$%^ing British keyboard when it's plugged into the port replicator. Unfortunately I did not think to specify "British keyboard" when ordering the thing. {growl} eta: Managed to get *that* bit done...