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Child Protection
Moving PC into lounge and wondering what is the best way of safeguarding the kids from surfing too many naughty things on the net and also excluding them from the vital programs on the PC itself. Can you please offer some advice? Thanks
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How best to convert VOB files to WMV or similar?
Hi, I'm trying to edit some video and audio files for a friend, some of which are VOB files that he has on a CD/DVD that have come from his video camera - he had this done at a video store. I am trying to tally up seperate audio and video recordings, so it would be easiest if I could convert these VOB files into WMV or…
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Best way to transfer VHS to DVD discussion
Transferring analoge VHS to digital DVD, seems not so straight forward. I would have thought that getting say 3 or 4 tapes on to one DVD would not affect the quality, but it does, depending on the internal conversion in the dvd recorder. Analogue noise being perfectly converted to digital noise and more. Best transfers…
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lost everything
Long shot I know BUT A few weeks ago my wife had a virus on her laptop and couldn't shift it, so she rung PC world and they told her to put the work she needed on a USB stick to save it, then do a format of the laptop, so she did, but she only copied the link to 'My Documents', (No I didn't laugh) She lost all the…
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Crap Cleaner question...
I'm running spybot and AVG, but having read other threads i decided to download C/C, and it has done a check and found loads and loads of stuff, like cookies, and temporary files and such like, should i go ahead and let c/c deleate these, (it tells me these will be permenatley deleted),.....but my PC works fine, i update…
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Installing extra memory - laptop
Hi, Going to upgrade an Acer 4062 LMI from 256 to 512 of ram from crucial. Do I take out the 256 and replace with 512, or, ' pop in ' another 256 running side by side with the original thus making it 512 of ram ? Cheers.........
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DVD Writer
I finally found some spare change behind the sofa and decided to purchase a dvd writer. I've come across one from SVP.co.uk for £36.44 (TOTAL inc Delivery) I'm a bit worried about that they will sell it with no cables, installation screws and software. I am just replacing my existing CD writer, will it fit in straight away…
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Help with compressing WMA files
Hi people I've attempted to reduce the size of a file containing music (WMA files). Presently it's 40mb which is way too big to email and after using Winzip it wasn't able to reduce it in size. Is it possible with WMA files or I'm I missing a trick? Cheers
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External USB hdd crashed
Last night in my area we had a power cut, not normally a problem. But I was doing my monthly backup of my computer to an external Hard Disc Drive. The problem is now my external HDD appears empty. Upon turning my external HDD I no longer get a popup window searching my drive and asking me how I want to open the drive…
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Connection problems
I cant seem to get onto the site at home either on the desktop or laptop :confused: I have tried everything. I am connecting to every other site fine no problems with IP or connection. Have contacted Belkin who I use for wireless but they say everything is working ok. Are there problems with MSE or is it my set up at home?…
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Advent 7101 Laptop
Has anyone got an Advent laptop & have any comments about them please? Looking at this one in PC World for £549.99 which seems to have all the right boxes ticked but would appreciate any comments before I commit :eek: . Many thanks.
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What will play ".ram" files BESIDES Real Player
Real player is the biggest pile of !!!!!! I have ever had the unfortunate pleasure of using. I hate it more than AOL. :rolleyes: Is there anything else that will play the .ram files or does some sort of plug-in exist that can be used in conjunction WMP 10? Thanks :)
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HELP - mso9.dll error printing from Powerpoint
Anyone tell me how to easily fix an error in mso9.dll - I need to print copies of a presentation in powerpoint and I just keep geting the same message?:eek:
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Pc for around 6-700£ What can i get ?
As the title says i have around 600-700£ to spend on a new pc. what can i get for my dosh these days? I have asked a similar question elswhere on the forum but thought you techies may know a little more of whats available. Really would like a monitor and pc bundle of highest spec poss.
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sygate free firewall
dont know if this has already been posted, but now symantec have taken over sygate they have discontinued the free sygate firewall. I know a lot of us use sygate, but should we now start to use one of the alternatives as sygate will not be updated. I suppose they think everyone will rush out to buy norton!
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Problems with emails
Can someone hep please, first of all I have no idea at all about things like this and if anyone does know what is happening I will need step by step instructions. I send and receive lots of emails every day. My daughter can send me emails from where she works. If I try to send her one, either by starting a new one or…
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Radio Player
So does anyone know of a good radio player that I can download please dont mention realplayer or real alternative or itunes. I wanna listen to English Broadcasts with out opening a website like BBCRadio2 Im after summet that acts like normal radio... :beer: :beer:
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Adobe Problem
I've got windows 98se and I have adobe 6.1.1. I have had an email from someone that has an attachment but when I try to download the attachment Adobe starts up but a message comes up saying 'the plug in PaperMetaData.api failed to initialise'. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to make it work so that…
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Sending music WMA files via email
Hi people I've got a album's worth of music which currently takes up 40mb of space and I would like to send it via email to a friend. 40mb is way too big! I've tried using various types of file compression systems like WinZip but I'm having no luck in reducing the size of the file. Is there something I'm missing? Is there…
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Tracking your computer if stolen
I came across this tonight via pro-photo website and I thought it would be of interest to fellow Apple computer owners. http://orbicule.com/undercover/ Basically if you are unfortunate to have your laptop stolen or even your desktop stolen this software will give its location away to the head office of the software company…
