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Something's lurking in my hard drive
Hi I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, but thought I'd give it a go. I'm convinced there's something untoward on my hard drive & I can't seem to find the nasty beastie. I've got Norton, with a MacAfee firewall (on tight) and I regularly update these with Adaware. I clean my cookies & internet files regularly,…
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Digital Camera Broken. Help please, quotes of £100 to repair!
Hello I have just been on a holiday to Center Parcs, and it seems that when we were in the water a little bit of water might have got inside out digital camera. Its a FujiFilm FinePix F401 and has done us well for just under 2 years. The warranty i think was only 1 year so i cant get it repaired for free. It turns on and…
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Ebay or Paypal Emails
I'm sure this has been mentioned before, I dont want anyone to get ripped off like a m8 of mine did. Over the last 2 days I've been bombarded with emails claiming there from ebay uk or paypal (look very convincing) asking for my details etc. I had one from paypal saying my acount was suspended due to a anonymous person…
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Crazy format thing in Word!
Can anyone help, this weird line has appeared in my word document, i don't know what it is and i can't get rid! It looks like this below) and is appearing under some areas of text, I assuem i have changed the forat somewhere but not sure how...
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what laptop processor
iv been looking around for laptops but dont know weather if i should buy a laptop with a turion processor or a centrino laptop.
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What Firefox Extensions do you use?
Was just wondering what everyone uses. I've use a few but wouldn't mind finding a few more if anyone has any decent suggestions. One's I find great so far are: Screen Grab IE View Html Tidy Web Developer Gmail Notifier Ad Block Sage (Rss reader)
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Flexible keyboard
I received my order from paramountzone this morning https://www.paramountzone.com/flex.htm I just wondered if anyone knows who else sells flexible keyboards. I thought I'd be getting a 'MICROSOFT CIO SUMMIT' flexi keyboard (logo on the pic of the keyboard I ordered), but there's no logo on this one. I did question customer…
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Is it possible to receive cable upstairs when box is downstairs?
Don't know if this is the correct place to put this or not but hopefully someone will be able to help. We have an ntl cable box which has a booster spliyting the signal between the TV downstairs and a cable which is attached to the internal wall and through the corner of the ceiling directly behind the TV into my son's…
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anyone used amazon's book referral to earn money on website?
thinking of putting some books related to our subject matter on our website. does anyone know of anyone making money from referral business such as amazon's books? i tend to buy books myself directly from amazon. what about other people? thanks in advance.
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320gb ex-harddrive for £149.99 @Maplin
I have seen THIS on the Maplin site.Can anyone tell me if this would be any good?It seems cheap for the capacity.I have a media centre pc which needs a lot of storage for recorded t.v etc so would be interested to know. MTIA
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printer- using after 8months idle -probs
2 Epsom printers, trying to get to work after 8m none use, fresh ink, many many head cleans via the pc, but cant get black to print on one, black & yell on the other, poked about with wet tissue in the cartridge carrier.... in both printers i cant get the head / carrier out its fastened to rails ... ideas please thx
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BSOD - Conflicts
Hello Everyone I keep on recieving the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). I mean everyone gets them but now it occurs constantly and is starting to Pees Me Orf. Im certain its to do with my graphics card/drivers and I was looking through the system and found this. Conflicts/Sharing -I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus I/O…
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DVD-R multisessions?
hello all. i have got a bundle od dvd-r which i got by mistake and opened one up. so i cant return them or exchange them for dvd-rw. can anyone guide me how to make multisessions in dvd-r ie putting different clips onto one dvd-r. iam using dvd shrink to copy dvd movies with nero. excellent program for dvd copies. any help…
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Slimline PS2 Recall
If you have a Slimline Playstion 2. You need to check out THIS site to see if your powerpack needs changing. Sony are recalling 3.5 million powerpacks after discovering a possible fault with them.
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Help Mouse Scrolling Problems
I have just had to reload windows due to re-formatting my hard drive. Now, for some reason, my mouse is scrolling oddly. It used to scroll web pages, via the wheel, smoothly. I have gone to the control panel nd changed the settings for the number if lines it scrolls but i can't get it smooth again. Can anybody help.
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need 21" tfts - any good qual deals / money off - pls
moving to a smaller house, will have to loose 2 x 21" dinosaur crt - these work superbly, but just havent the space to put them on a desk - i use autocad , so screen clarity is v. v. important - any ideas on suitable spec ( apart from the laptop never had tft), any vouchers / bargain deals thx
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Recommendations please. Fast, compact, light but fully loaded laptop required :D
Hi all, I'm looking for a laptop (bundle deal if poss). Looking for decent spec and gig of RAM if poss. The budget is £1500, but that needs to include MS Office and Antivirus. Can anyone make any recommendations? This laptop is to be used when travelling, so battery life is important. Will need to be able to dial up to the…
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Ethernet Broadband
Hi, Can anyone please help me with this?? I have a home PC with broadband, using Thompson USB Speedtouch modem. I have a work laptop too, and currently have to dial-up to connect to work. I can use my home broadband connection on my laptop if i have ethernet connection modem, but i don't. Is there anyway i can use my usb…
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Boot up without keyboard?
Is it possible to boot pc without a keyboard attatched? my ongoing problems turned out to be faulty bluetooth adaptor for my keyboard and mouse and i am now using them but connected to my belkin adaptor but it doesnt recognise the keyboard on start up so was wondering is there anyway round it? Any thoughts please?
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Installed Software Sharing
I have a wired network at home with 2 PCs (Soon to be 3) and a Laptop connected to it. I was wondering if there's any way I can install software on 1 PC on the network and allow all the other machines to use this software? Want to install Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Encarta, etc etc... on the one PC and be able to access…
