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HELP-Internet Disconnection Problem.
My dial-up internet connection (ISP - Tesco) keeps disconnecting after ~ 2-3 minutes on both IE and Firefox. Can anyone please advise me on how to solve this? It only started yesterday upon my return from holiday after being idle for 3 weeks. Many thanks in anticipation. Must go before the next disconnection!! Too late. I…
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Lookinf for a Firefox extension that syncing extentions across several computers
Hi all, I use Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks over several PC's, however would like to know if there's one available for syncing Firefox Extensions across a number of PC's. Cheers lots! :)
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Buying MS software- help needed.
Hello, I want to buy a copy of MS's 'Visio'. I'd like a legal version in good condition, not necessarily the latest edition either, and (of course!) I want to save money. I've been on ebay but am concerned at getting ripped off or otherwise making a costly mistake there. I'd be grateful if any reader could help me- perhaps…
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Sky Plus is Broken - What will repair bill be?
After reading advice on this site, I had Sky+ installed back in June. Its a refurbished Pace box that only cost £49 and we were well pleased with it. However, two nights ago it suddenly froze while we were watching a programme on playback and then none of the Sky+ features would work. I can still watch Sky normally, I just…
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Printer Prob
Hello Techies Has anyone ever tried to empty the overflow ink tank on a Canon S9000 A3 printer? That's the tank that fills up a bit every time you press "Clean". There's nowt wrong with the printer except that tank being full - we had to buy a new printer as it's vital to our income - but if I could empty the old one we'd…
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AOL Broadband what is next best option?
I have ben with AOL for 4 years and have their silver broadband with McAfee protection for £21.00 per month. All I use it for is surfing - Im not techie enough to download. I there another service I could use which is cheaper but as reliable?
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Clever things to do with a Sony PSP
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, or if its been done before, but here goes! I've had my Sony PSP since Christmas, and all i've done is play the games i've got and use my wireless broadband to surf the net. There must be more things they can do that Sony don't put in there manual! Anyone willing to…
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A Wireless Router AND USB Modem, on the same line... madness?
Hi there Got a problem I hope someone can help with. I have 2MB broadband here at my FIL's house... however he has an OLD OLD OLD IBM Aptiva (with, yes, you wouldn't believe it, Smartsuite software) that he's holding onto for dear life. The problem is this: we both need to use the line, but his computer doesn't have a…
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monitor problems
This is very annoying and I hope that someone can put me out of my misery..... When I leave my computer unattended for a brief period, the monitor goes into hibernation mode (fair enough) but unlike most when you just jiggle your mouse and it comes on again, my doesn't and I have to turn it off and then back on again.…
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what is max distance for a broadband wire?
hi ive just ordered a new dell 3100 and am thinking of getting broadband as well, however my question is how far away can i place my new pc from the main phone point and still get broadband? At the moment i have a dial up connection and the wire goes about 40feet from the phone point to the pc, but works fine. I did try…
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Sending large files
Can anyone recommend a good free file transfer service please? I have tried https://www.yousendit.com but have found it to be unreliable with large files and also I don't like the lack of a progress bar. https://www.sendthisfile.com I find to be more reliable but after you have sent a couple of files the upload speed gets…
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Budget gaming card
What graphics card will be most compatible playing games Connect3D Radeon 9550 SE 128MB DDR (OEM) £39.52 Inno3D NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256M £50.52 Hightech Radeon 9550SE 128MB DDR 64Bit AGPx8 TV-Out DVI-I £29.35 MY budget is about £50, I have a geforce fx5200 ultra that I'm setting up in my nephews pc to play spiderman & bf2.…
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Looking for free Bookmark Management & Synchronising Software... please :D
Hi all, any recommendations? If not free, then I'm willing to pay if it's really good. I'm using Foxmarks extension in Firefox at the mo, however I don't find the Firefox Bookmark Manager very efficient or speedy. Cheers people.
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Need a website, the way forward...??
I need a website designed and built. I have talked this over with a few so called web designer/developers and thay all say that they can do it, but they all want money up front. Non have anything in their portfolio that is anywhere near the same. I am loathe to hand over a wad of cash in the `hope` that they are as good as…
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want to buy a POWERFUL laptop that looks good
Hi - I'm looking for a powerful laptop that runs fast and that is great for gaming. I like Alienware but the only problem is I need a TV card with it (internal not external) and they only offer it with ONE laptop, I do like Dell but I've been told the Pentium M processor isn't very good, and that's their only choice on…
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Help to convert music dvd to cd
Please help me !!!!!! Can anyone please point me in the right direction to convert my music/concert dvd's to mp3 files to play one my ipod ,and/or burn to cd for the car, I have done a few searches on here, anything showing a similar title would not open. Thanks all
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F8 wont work!
I run Ewido spy checker regularly but have just seen posts advising that it should be done in safe mode. Decided to do just that, but pressing the F8 key won't work! I have gone into safe mode loads of times on an old Win98 machine but for some reason, it's just not happening. I am running WinXP. Anybody help please?…
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Netgear / laptop wireless connection
Hi guys Can any of you Teckies out there help... Have installed netgear wireless modem, and want to connect to an IBM Thinkpad T40, with wireless receiver - can anyone tell me how I can make them talk to each other. Cheers ....
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Form filling programme
On my old comp I had a programme for filling in forms where I would trpe the first couple of lines of the bit I was going to fill in and it would guess the rest and you could scroll down to it. I do loads on online comps so this would come in very useful only I cant remember the programme now. It definately wasnt Gator…
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Wireless Int' Access
I am currently using the Netgear 834g wireless router for my internet access. This runs at 54Mbps - I am currently on 512 broadband and am thinking of upgrading speed. Will it make any difference to the speed that I download/upload, if I do upgrade due to me being restricted by the wirless speed of 54mbps? I hope that made…
