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Distance from my local Exchange
How do I find out how far I'm away from my local exchange for Broadband/speed purposes? The broadband checker is just to tell you the availability of the service. Any test/website which give the distance? Many thanks in advance
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Need new digi cam
Can anyone tell me if they know of any good deals on a basic digi cam. We have a canon a75 which we bought in june 05 from boots but it has gone wrong. They have told me to return it for a refund i paid £100 so looking to replace it around that price. Really wanted to buy one from the high street as we are going away on…
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PC won't start ... Help Please!
My computer won't start It went through a phase where it kept freezing, then when I switched the power on, it would make a noise, but that's it .... the monitor would not come on or anything, it was like it was stuck or something. But now, it will not even power up! Is there anything I can do? The lithium battery on the…
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Swapping to AVG on win XP query
My daughter is at uni and her mcafee has ran out today. She is going to replace it with AVG. Shes on windows XP is there anything she needs to be aware of before uninstalling mcafee and installing this? Any particular procedure? Shes got zone alarm free, adaware, spybot and ccleaner. I have already swapped mine to AVG but…
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Freeview/HD advise
We have a Digifusion FVRT200 which we're happy with but are noticing that recordings in SP mode are sometimes of really bad quality even though the "live" freeview picture is fine?! We've just checked by watching live (it was perfect) and recording at the same time and the recording was rubbish. Is this a problem with our…
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ipod suddenly gone from itunes
Please help I got home with my new ipod 30gb. used CD and installed ipod. restarted laptop as asked and ipod was there and music was being downloaded onto ipod. However then told i needed update so added update and restarted laptop with ipod still plugged in as showing do not disconnect. now ipod has gone from itunes…
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Migrating to Linux
I am tired of being "forced" to use Microsoft. Anyone who uses Linux here? What would u recommend? (for just home based laptop computing) Redhat Fedora Core Mandrake or others thanks :)
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Creative Zen Vision:M or Archos AV500 ?
I'm looking for a mp3 player / movie player / photo capture device , and since I have a creative zen micro already was leaning towards the Vision : M but just wondered if anyone has had any experience of there and could help - I've heard the vision:M screen can scratch easily and it seems smaller in size but then again the…
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issue re linking through
Hi Could I just ask where the IE setting is regarding 'open a separate window'. I'm having problems opening links in the Pigsback link that will link to the completed crossword/competition. Have posted on that thread and had some helpful suggestions, but I'm thinking it must be something techie that I need to do. In the…
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Good Webcam ?
Hi I need a good quality webcam for security puposes (mainly to over look garden which is a weakspot ) I'm looking for something with fairly good resolution at a distance. And towards the cheap and cheerful end of the market. :confused: Thanks
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Winfixer - do I have a problem?
I've just had three messages appear on my computer about winfixer. They were like normal pop up information messages but they were basically saying about threats and click OK to start winfixer to fix the problem. I clicked the cross box on the first one and on the second it had an ok box and a cancel box so I clicked the…
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Dial Up Internet- disconnecting?
Hi I've been installing some new anti virus software on an elderly relatives PC and noticed that the dial up internet connection was still running when the active internet window was closed. It's been quite a while since I've had dial up, but I'm sure mine would disconnect when you closed Internet Explorer. I've looked at…
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Transfer broadband connection and data from old to new computer
We have go our new Mesh pc ready to set up but have a couple of probably very silly questions. We are on Virgin broadband - how do we set up the new pc. I've got the original disc we used to get connected so do we use that? What is the best way to transfer data? Have put some stuff on cds and was going to get a usb memory…
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HD Televisions.. WOW !!!!
Saw a LG 42inch HD Television today in a high street shop. and the picture was just incredible, the detail and sharpness is astonishing, when you look at other tellys it's like looking through frosted glass, but the price was £1750 :eek: For once the product lives up to the hype.
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Dell printers
Hi I would like to know from any Dell owners if the printers can use non dell refills,ie the cheaper ones as I am considering buying a Dell system
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Dell desktop
I'm after a bit of advice, i'm looking at buying a desktop mainly for surfing the net, playing and burning cd's/dvds and maybe playing a few games on (nothing great though just stuff like the sims etc). I have noticed that Dell are offering their Dimension 5150 system for £399, at first this looks great but has i believe…
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Software for sending SMS/MMS on PDA?
Hi, I have an ipaq 1940 and can get onto the internet through my mobile/bluetooth fine, but what I'd like is a piece of software which will allow me to send sms and mms messages from my ipaq though my phone. My phone allows the ipaq connection automatically so if i was using the ipaq and wanted to send a quick text, it…
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Cordless/wireless keyboard gone to sleep?
hi all please feel free to move this if required... my mum has bought a wireless keyboard and mouse set from argos... after installing it all she wanted to leave the computer for half an hour and pressed the sleep button on the keyboard... Keyboard went to sleep... upon her return she can not work out how to wake it up…
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Installing s/ware problem
Hi Trying to install some s/ware for family tree research, (Personal Ancestral File vers 5.2) and part way through the install process I get the message "The InstallShieldEngine ikernel.exe could not be installed" , any ideas what this means and can I get around it? Please reply as though to an idiot as not particularily…
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reloaded Windows XP but lost broadband??
screen freeze on Thurs night so turned off processor & left overnight, this has done the trick before & it just starts OK next time. However on this occassion no luck, even when the PC tried starting from a previous good configuration. Left with no option than to reload Windows XP from disc (or traumatise myself by ringing…
