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Help DVD's in black and white!
Hi, please can anyone advise ? we bought ourselves a lovely Sony KDLS40a12 for christmas, have set it up but can now only view DVD's in black and white - haven't managed to find how to play videos at all yet.... Neither of us are techi at all so excuse the terminology: The sony dvd player is connected to a scart socket in…
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Help Sony Cybershot S-80 macro mode focusing
Unfortunately my Sony FD90 gave up on me and i got a Sony Cybershot DSC-S80 camera for xmas. What i would like to know is how can i get a good focused close up with the new camera? With my FD90 i was able to get a very good clear close up (lens within 1/2 inch of subject) but i do not seem to be able to with the new…
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sky tv link problem
Sky have been round to fix a problem and have changed my digi box.The engineer has done something wrong and my tv link now doesn't work upstairs .The picture is watchable but the remote will not operate.I reckon he has just not set the new box up for the link.I know this is an easy job as I installed the link myself.I…
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Help! suddenly says no video input
Hi i have two computers next to each other, an old on and a new(ish) one. Yesterday i was on my old computer (on this site as it happens) and then my new computer next to me just powered down. I thought it was a bit strange, but dismissed it as an power saving device. I moved the mouse to get out of what i thought was the…
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how can i tell if my tft screen is damaged?
Everyone keeps touching my laptop tft screen everytime they want to point something out to me on the screen. Well anyway one of ma friends (a girl) ran her nails down my tft screen, and I'm unsure if its damaged the screen or not. How could I tell if my screen has been damaged? I can't see any difference in the graphics…
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Where have my pictures gone?
I use Mozilla Firefox. An Email came via Outlook Express showing one picture and saying some pictures had been stopped so my Computer would not be identified. To download pictures please click here. I did this and nothing seemed to happen. Where are the pictures now? Any help would be appeciated with simple instructions as…
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Which Dell dimension to buy 5150 v 9150
Please, please can somebody help me to decide which one to get as I urgently need one? Cannot decide between the 5150 or 9150. Am I right to think, that these PC has got everything it needs to just set up and use. I think somobody mentioned about there is no sound card or are there anything else I should add? I go through…
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medion mdpda100
I have been given this as a present it take the same card sd mmc as my nokia phone that i was using tom tom m5 on i tried this card in pda but did not start up( but i could see it on card) on own ... Is this likey to work in pda? the soft wear that came with pda was not quite so good..any advice out there please? :confused:
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MSN Messenger
Can anyone please advise. My friend's son has been using my pc over Xmas. Now every time I switch on I get MSN log in page. Two things; 1) Is this a useful programme? I've never used it. 2) If not how do I stop the log in screen from Appearing. Thanks
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pc games
hi two questions have bought some one a pc game for christmas . When we try to install it message comes up we need to download playback video codec anyone know where we can download this for free. Second question, anyone know of a digi sender that works with telewest
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don't understand this Zone Alarm alert
every time i log on i get a zonealarm security alert showing gdnUS1402.exe and as normal giving choice of "accepting" or "denying" entry. problem is it doesn't tell you how you can find out what it is advise appreciated.
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Adult Friend Finder Pop-up
Since installing :o :o UKonline broadband, my anti-virus has been working overtime. I have pop-up stoppers, adaware and spybot. Yet something in my registry keeps popping up the site belonging to Adultfriendfinder.com. My pop-up stopper privacy report shows I have two run history items none of which mention friendfinder.…
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DAB Radio
My wife bought me one for christmas - first impressions are not good. My 30 year old Roberts sounds much much better and picks up FM stations that the new one won't touch. Yes there are a load of new stations, but nothing I want to listen to. Out of the two stations I want to listen to, it picks up one, but can't find the…
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Stupid Satellite Question!
I need help. I have a dish in the back garden about 1 meter diameter and it is pointing at the ASTRA satellite, at least all the programs I get are on that one. However according to my TV receiver I should be able to get other satellites, Hotbird etc. What I am really trying to receive is the Russian speaking stations. My…
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help!!!!!!
i'm devastated. had some info, letters etc on floppy disc, cannot find the a: drive on computer. also had some more info to copy onto floppy, but cannot find a: drive info/icon on my control panel or anywhere else. can someone help. inserted flopppy into drive but nothing happens!
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browser hijack
Anyone had this recently? Whenever I try to log on to my NTL homepage, I am now automatically redirected to some Cypriot based outfit that tries to sell me anti spyware software. Obviously I have inadvertently allowed something in, despite zonealarm, and various anti-spyware programs, but try as I might, I can't seem to…
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Venturer 40GB HDD MP3 Player
Just seen the Venturer 40GB HDD MP3 Player for £89.99 at Argos. I am looking for something that allows a large storage for music and at the price it seems ideal. I know it's probably a clearance model, but at the price feel it's worth looking at. Has anybody got one and could they tell me what they think. I have been…
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Help with JPGs
Cant ubderstand it. piccys I took with camera are listed as PI3 instead of the usual JPG. New camera is a Panasonic so that bit makes sense but every prog sees the files as a JPG. prob is that when I go to copy to CD disk it puts PI3 suffix on file and DVD player cant read it. How do I get windows to see these files as…
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Cookie tip
Something I've just done. Set up internerd explorer to prompt for cookies. eg: tools, options, privacy, advanced, prompt for cookies. Now every time a site wants to save a cookie you can agree or disagree. Useful I think.
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Help - Video compression for email
Please Help, Have taken some short video clips of our 16 week old baby over her 1st Christmas. Now need to send them to Grandparents via email Which is the best way to send in a small a file as possible, but is still easy to play at the other end? Video files range from 6.5MB to 22MB when played using Windows Media Player…
