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Help a dummy go wireless
CAN anyone help me Firstly i have ordered a centrino laptop an acer aspire 1691 which arrives on thursday yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have also upgraded to wannadoos wireless broadband (which takes 10 days) Apologies if my questions are dumb The man on the phone (from wannadoo) told me that as long as my laptops centrino then…
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Help WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACER ASPIRE 1691 1691WLMI
I was wondering if anyone can help me i've just ordered an ACER ASPIRE 1691 for £599.99 from comet and just noticed that there's an ACER ASPIRE 1691 WLMI for £699.99 does anyone out there know the difference between them basically I want the laptop for a wireless internt connection to surf the the net without the bulk of a…
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Portable dvd player.
I have a goodmans portable dvd player for the car. How do I make it multi region and get it to play rw-dvds? Any ideas? Just thought, where can I get something to hand it off the back of the seats in the car?
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Wi-fi for dummies - help!!
I’m very new to all this wi-fi and networking stuff so maybe I’m doing something obviously wrong here… I’d appreciate some info from someone with a bit more technical knowledge! I’ve recently bought one of the bargain Dell PCs (see Gone but not forgotten!). I’m keeping this PC and passing on my old Medion PC to Mr Agent C.…
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Why is VBA programming in Excel 2003 a pain?
I've recently moved over from Excel 2000 to Excel 2003. I now find that when programming even simple VBA macros i get 'Type mismatch' error or one of a host of other errors. It is really annoying. I have written more complex routines in Excel 2000 previously and had no such errors. Does Excel 2003 have some new bugs or…
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Photo Scanner
I am looking to scan my old 35mm photos and slides onto my laptop How many dpi's should I go for, will 1200 x 2400 suffice or should I get a 4800 ? Can anyone recomend a good scanner
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Media player
I'm on AOL broadband & for some un-known reason I cant get the media player to work. It media player screen comes up but nothing happens :confused: any tips much appreciated ( nothing to complicated as I'm a novice !! ) Thanks in advance :D
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xbox live?
can i play xbox live of my wireless broadband and if yes how and what do i need? cheers Will
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Lost @ sign
On a new installation of windows XP the @ key brings up " I know there are ways to sort it but I have had a glass of wine already and I can't think of anymore. Looked at the troubleshoot, no joy, checked UK settings OK, any suggestions? Thanks in advance...
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I wanna cheap laptop
Looking for something < £500, preferably closer to £400, must be at least 2 GHz CPU, preferably 512MB RAM, 40 Gb HD and WiFi would be nice. Seen several contenders but with only 1.4 and 1.5 GHz processors. Anyone seen any good offers?
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supanet driving me mad !!!
hi there am using xp and everytime i log in a screen pops up asking me to register for Supanet ! i have to click on "register later" to close it now its starting to drive me up the wall cos i have tried deleting it by using "add/remove programs" but it just wont budge??? any ideas?
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Emotions please.
Where can I find and how do I install a small set of 'Emotions' similar to smilies here or like those with Hotmail rich text. I'd like to use them with my Outlook Express - is that possible? I only seem to be able to find a large download of life changing smilie's. Advice appreciated. - Happy
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playstation question
I was thinking of buying the new slimline PS2 but someone told me that they dont last long as they have no cooling fan...anyone know of this problem? Is it better to buy the thick ps2 with a fan 2nd hand?
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IDE Cables and a slow computer
my dads pc is very slow and prone to crash. we took the side panel off to look inside and found that one ide cable is connected to dvd rewriter / floppy drive, and the other is connected to dvd rom / hard drive, and i was wondering if this could cause the pc to play up. I think i read somewhere that the dvd drives should…
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Going wireless.
Can anyone recommend a real easy to install wireless system for my laptop. Also, probably sounds a silly question to ask, but if I go wireless do you have to re-install all the programmes? I am very slowly beginning to love my laptop and there is still heaps that I do not understand but I feel ready to go wireless and…
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Cable TV box's
Techies help, The house I live in now is hooked-up for Blueyonder services. My internet is through telewest BY. We did have TV but couldnt afford it anymore so we cancelled it, telewest took the box, card etc etc... Now I know the cable for the box is still live as we use it instead of a TV aerial for the normal 1-5…
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How do I delete icons from system tray please?
Can you help please I need to delete unnecessary icons from system tray, such as the printer icon etc. How do I do this? hope someone can help! Thanks
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PSP Dead Pixels
I want to get a PSP but what is bothering me is all this about Dead Pixels many people are getting on a PSP. Is it true that you can get dead pixels on a PSP and if any of you have a PSP does yours have a dead pixel on it? If I do get a PSP and it turns out to have a dead pixel will the major retailers offer to exchange…
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Outlook query
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between Contacts in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Address book. Thanks
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Software Recommendation - Backing up
SyncBackSE, it comes in a freeware version and also a shareware version (£14.50 to buy). I ended up buying it as the shareware version has more functionality. It's a very good, easy to use backup application. I currently have daily backups (at 7pm as my machine is usually on then). These are done incrementally, compressed…
