We can help you much better if you tell us:
Contact details
Your name, and best ways to contact you by phone or email
Best times to contact you by phone (UK 9-5pm, but some evening calls are possible)
Whether you are a home user, or school (and name of school)
Please tell us if you are outside the UK. We aim to ring at a sociable hour, so do please tell us what time zone you are in.
What program is causing the problem?
Wordshark, Wordshark 2, Wordshark 2L, Wordshark 3, Wordshark 3s, Wordshark 4
Numbershark, Numbershark 3, Numbershark 4
If Numbershark 3 or 4 or Wordshark 3s or 4 single-user CD version, what release number is it?
If possible, open the program, go to file / version.
Recent releases have the release number on the CD and on the back of the CD case (e.g. “Wordshark 3s.05”)
Do you have a single-user CD, special version, or the school network version of the program?
Is the program running on a “standalone” computer, or on machines that are on a network?
What operating system are you running?
E.g.
Apple Macintosh OS X [which one?]
Windows 95, Windows 98, Millennium [ME], NT,
Server 2003, 2008,
XP, Vista, Win7 (please state 32 bit or 64 bit)
What seems to be going wrong?