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Dell Inspiron 1300 Notebook upgrade?
We recently bought one of those 299 pound Dell notebooks and my son now wants to play football manager on it. It keeps freezing - is there anything we can do - upgrade?? Any help appreciated
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Can I transfer songs from ipod to computer?
Help! My computer broke down last month and I lost all my data. I have about 250 songs on my ipod and wonder if there is any way of transferring them back onto my computer? I have downloaded a few programmes but these only allow you to transfer 5 at a time (or u have to pay). I just want to save the time and money of…
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Help needed with fitting 2nd hd
Hi Calling all the clever peeps out there! I have just purchased a Dell dimension 5150, I have a hard drive from an old pc (which has now gone to pc heaven) and wish to install this hard drive into the new Dell as it has pics of my daughter when she was born. The problem is my old drive is a Maxtor D740X-6L which i believe…
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keeping email address
Hi I am considering moving my broadband to TalkTalk, having been with AOL for years. Can I keep my aol email address or not. If I can, how would I do it? Thanks in anticipation.
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Error 1344
I cannot print e mail and get "Line Error 1344" coming up when I try to print. Looked at Google for clues and read that a Roll Back of XP should fix this however would rather try something else if possible? Any advice would be welcome.
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PC died last night
Hi PC is dead, used it last night everything fine; son mentioned a strange smell last night, thought it a bed delaying tactic, so ignored it! Later found PC switched off, thought one of the kids had turned it off, and smell still lingering, not a burnt smell, but sort of plasticy! Tried to switch on this morning - nothing,…
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Dell Inspiron 1300 Sonic Update Manager Requests a CD Problem
if anyone deletes some of the crap software and gets:- The following error message appears on system boot: ’Sonic Update Manager’ The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available. Insert the ´Sonic Update Manager´ disk and click OK Download the hotfix from the Sonic/Roxio…
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New Yahoo Beta Help
Cut a long story short, I liked the Yahoo mail interface introduced last week but used the 'swith back' button to go back to old style to try something out that I could not get working on the new version. I thought that this was pretty safe because it states that I can come back again at anytime. My question is, how the…
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D-Link Router / Steam App Rules?
Hey all, I've finally given in to a problem I have when using my D-link router and steam. Steam is a application that supports online games. I stumble across problems when I enable the SPI on the router. I want SPI enabled as its good part of my security. Basically I can't refresh the server list and my favourite servers…
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Uh Oh! Gigabyte help please
To cut a long story short ... I have been on AOL for 5 years (dial up) and recently purchased a new laptop and wanted to get broadband and go wireless. I checked the best deal / package / price for me and opted for BT / Yahoo braodband. Laptop came 2 weeks ago, Broadband came last week (I paid a one off payment for a…
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Where to buy a new laptop!!?
Hey! Sorry for this, but I'd really appreciate some help on buying a laptop! I'll connect to broadband, download, computer-gaming (so i'd need a fairly good graphics card), but with so many companies offering such different laptops at such varied prices, i dont know where to start! Obviously being on MSE I'd like the…
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Probelm with Acer LCD Monitor
Acer AL1913 LCD Monitor bought six months ago from Comet. Has been great until recently. Now, if I leave the PC for a while and the monitor goes into hibernation I sometimes cannot wake it up again. The green light displays but the screen is absolutely dead. I have to force the PC to shut down by switching off at the…
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Rootkits, Smarter Hackers Pose Growing Security Threats
QUOTE Rootkits, Smarter Hackers Pose Growing Security Threats By Matt Hines April 17, 2006 Based on a new study released by software maker McAfee's Avert Labs group, the technology used to cloak many different forms of malware, especially rootkits, is becoming increasingly complex and harder to detect....Kaspersky...said…
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Wireless ADSL Modem and Router
Need one of the above to setup home workgroup/network, would ideally like to spend less than £50. Defo want WPA supported encryption on it also Also need a wireless adaptor for desktop, which should set me back around £10 i think. Any advice would be great? anybody know of any good deals at moment? Thanks :)
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data card for laptop ?? can u buy them cheap ?
Hi Futher to the great advice on this site I have decided to get a data card for browsing the internet on my new dell laptop ( even more great advice ). However ( here we go again... ) I have looked into this and most companies want a monthly subscription. O2 do a pay as you go type thing ( using the pay as u go sim cards…
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Downloading songs onto my mobile help.
I have a lovely Sony Ericsson W800 and I am trying to download songs from my computer to it. I have all my songs stored on windows media player and I put them into a folder to sync. The windows media device recognises the phone and dowloads songs to it but they go into the sounds menu and not the mp3 part and so they will…
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Broadband access away from home
I shall be staying at my friend's house while they are away and can't do without my Broadband access (especially MSE!). Please can anyone tell me (preferably in very simple language (I'm techie thick) how I can set it up using my laptop? I think the main problem is that I do not want anything to show up on their 'phone…
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New Desktop Computer Build
I am proposing to build new desktop computer. The total purchese price of the components is £595. Firstly does anyone know if a ready made computer is available with this spec and cheaper also have I missed any components out. The spec., is as follows:- Silver/Back Midi Tower 450W ATX Athlon 64 3200 processor MSI K8 Neo 4…
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DVD recorder help needed
Apologies if this type of question has already been posted. I recently purchased a very cheap DVD recorder, it's an Avious 1029, bought from a Superdrug warehouse sale for £30.00. Managed to get it set up ok to start with and copied recordings from Sky+ with success. Problem was with the picture, I had to go through the…
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Toshiba 320 gig External drive £110.00
Hi, PC world and currys are doing the above deal. It says £50.00 rrp, is this a good deal?
