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Problem with Drivers
My PC is constantly crashing with an IE error reporting back to Microsoft. At the end of the report it states that I have an error which requires a Drivers update. I was advised to go to My Computer, hardware properties and look for a yellow asterik and update that. Only problem is that there is no yellow asterik against…
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Laptop security - Kensington?
Son went off to Uni yesterday armed with new laptop. We have been told to buy some sort of device like a Kensington rope :confused: . Never heard of anything like this. When fixed to laptop it apparently means no-one can steal it it...............................well not easily enough to be a "walk-in" theft:(. Just…
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Wireless laptop malarky.....
Thinking about getting a wireless laptop, nothing special just something to surf the net on without having to get a great big PC.... Anyway my question is... can you setup a wireless laptop without a PC. Currently I have no broadband connection and know I will need one but can that be setup via the wireless laptop... if…
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What wireless router?
Hi all you techies. It's 01.52, just as you guys are starting to play. So I thought now would be a good time to ask what would be the best wireless router to use. I have 2 athlon pc's, one is a week old both have network cards. I am working on a 1-2 meg broadband with tiscali (it says 2.2 meg but I am sceptical as I only…
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Make Aol Broadband faster
I am on the Aol gold account and recently became aware how much cheaper tiscali are for the same service rang Aol and informed them that they were charging me £120 a year more than tiscali would and got my connection speed doubled for no extra charge. Its well worth the phone call for anyone on aol and if enough people…
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Will this booster help my freeview signal?
hi, my freeview reception has been awful of late, am using a goodmans GDB2 and i wasnt sure whether i need a new and better box (like the look of sony and the humax fox) or whether a signal booster might help. Obviously I want to spend as little as possible and have spotted this one. But to be honest I dont really know…
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Windows Media Player won't play Mpegs
ok...this ones got me beat every time I click on a link to view an Mpeg it locks up...cpu usage shoots up to 50% plenty of Ram on my PC (1gb) and Cpu is Pentium 4 3ghz I've turned it off as an associated file type and it works fine with Quicktime or built in DVD software
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Wireless question
I brought a wireless router and card home with me from America but I cant get it connected up. The set up guide is telling me to put the Ethernet connection which usually goes from the broadband into the back of my laptop, into the back of the wireless router. Small problem, I have a USB link going into my laptop. The…
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PS2 Brian lara cricket 2005
Hi i have got this game today. Just put in in my ps2 and all the players name are weird is that how the game is. The player names are spelt wrong is this ok or am i in a different mode or something.
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Frontpage problem
couple of girls at work have asked me to do them a basic website but i'm having a few problems as i know nish about Frontpage and have nothing else to use at the minute. Whenever i try and add anything from the 'drawing' toolbar it'll show on the design page but disappears when i do a preview or save the page. Is it…
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Help! Downloading/Installing driver for Eyetoy as Webcam
Can anyone help me? I am trying to download the PS2 Eyetoy driver onto my PC so that I can use as a Webcam, but I am having difficulty. I am using the link in Woos thread here. Being a complete techie phobe, I am getting nowhere! Any idiot proof guides out there? I am running Windows XP. Thanks Frizzle!
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Where do you host your website?
Hello chaps - about to set up a shiney new website and wondered who at moneysaving uses whom? Splashie
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Which camera
I have a nikon digital camera which I like accept for the time delay between pushing the button and the photo being taken. Are there any reasonably priced digital cameras that take the photo immediately ?
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Help - Windows XP home freezing on disc check
Silly me for the past week My laptop has been going slow and has frozen a couple of times and I sort of ignored it. have not really loaded any new software either. Anyway it firoze again so I powered it off yesterday and when it restarted it strongly recommended a disc check. This is the strange bit, it tells me it has…
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links, no link
Hi Could someone please help me with a problem. My pc has been playing up and so a month ago quit, so I've had a new motherboard put in and got it back today. Got the broadband connected again and all seems ok but when I opened an email before I can't click into the link to the outside page it brings up an empty page. I…
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Viewing webcam on yahoo
Hi...i am trying to view a friend's cam...however I keep getting the message from yahoo that I am behind a firewall and cannot connect.Can anyone help me overcome this problem.Cheers
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Convert AVI movie to MPEG2 movie?!?
hi, iv got a 2hour movie on my computer that iv taken from my video camers andf it is on a AVI format and is 22GB, Big, i no! Now, i want to convert it to a Mpeg2 movie file because thats the only way i can burn it onto a DVD +r disc. converting the file to a mpeg2 will also make the file smaller. i will then have to…
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Cheapest laptop around?
I'm looking for the cheapest laptop around at the moment. I need one fairly quickly but only use it for internet access and a bit of Word etc so don't need anything too fancy. Where would be the cheapest laptop anyone has seen ? Thankyou!!
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Has my PC died?
Went to switch on my trusty old PC (Windows 98) this morning but got a message saying "Cannot find operating system". Tried to load MS-DOS 6.2 Disks but just getting a message saying "Your computer does not have a hard disk, is not functioning correctly, or require a special device driver". I've had it since 1997 and it is…
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Has laptop broken?
Last night I caught the little rubber thing under the screen on the laptop which turns the screen off. The screen went off, then back on for a few seconds, then off again, and since then there is nothing on the screen. The computer switches off and on, but nothing else. I am so fed up, yesterday was horrible, something…
