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RAM Confusion
Hi, There's so many different types/speeds of ram that I gave up trying to understand some time ago!! I have a 512mb 184DIMM 400mhz DDR chip in mine at the moment and want to put an extra GB in. Does anyone know if this will work alongside the existing one?…
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best place to store passwords?
what and where is the best secure place to put all the passwords I have, ie piece of paper or is there a place I can store them on my computer?Any responses welcomed cheers leachy
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Mac iBook TV Tuner ideas
Hi, Looking for a prezzy for my daughter who users a mac ibook. Would like to ger her a tv tuner to link to her ibook laptop so she can watch tv in her rooms at UNI. Any ideas on whats best etc.
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What happens if i press this?
Open a word document. Type in..... =rand (200,99) .... press enter. What's that all about? :confused:
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Logitech X 230 Speakers
I have discovered Limewire and am using the PC to listen to more and more music, my little speakers aren't upto the job, so after a search on here the Logitech X 230 seems to be a good buy, but can anyone tell me how they power up please, do they have to plug in the mains or do they run off the power supply at the back of…
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speed of computer
My dell computer is about 2 monthes old Up until last week it went like a rocket on broadband Now it has slowed up a bit Any ideas why ? I have cleaned up disk c and defragged but no difference.
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iTunes Lyrics Importer
I was so impressed with iTunes Art Importer but when was looking into importing lyrics using windows XP couldn't find an easy answer. Any guidance from iTuners here would be greatly appreciated.
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DVD+R won't play
I have a technika dvdr2005 from tesco and my daughter has the Acoustic Solutions AS-8099 from Argos a couple of years ago. In the past she has played dvd+rw's I have recorded on the technika with no problems but last week a recorded a film she wanted to keep on a dvd+r and she can's play it, it says no disc. I also tried…
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Not another music format question
Hi everyone. Do you guys know which would have a better sound quality: encoding music in the standard way or using VBR (variable BitRate)? So if I am using the same format and bitrate (e.g. MP3 at 192BR) then is it better to use VBR or not?
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Windows Media Player 11 Beta
If anyone wants to try this out go here. WMP 11 Beta. Please read below
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Windows XP - Best Place To Buy / Best Price ?
Friend has a 5 year old PC he wants to rebuild, his younger brother has done all sorts of dodgy things to it (software installs and accessing offensive websites). therefore he would like a clean fresh start. I have had a search around the internet for OS prices and there seems to be a wide variation for the same thing…
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Cheapest monitor around?
Hello :wave: I was wondering if anyone has spotted any cheap monitors around. Mine blew up a couple of weeks ago and I've been getting strong withdrawal symptoms from not being able to access MSE :cry: or internet banking _pale_ or anything else but that's less important :rolleyes: I've checked freecycle in my area but…
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Freeview USB sticks
Am thinking of getting one of the Freeview USB sticks so I can watch my favourite programmes anytime. Can anyone who has one let me know if they are any good. I thought at just under £40 they seem good value for money.
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Outlook keeps crashing!
I am having a few probs with my pc, it runs of xp. I run microsoft outlook 2003 and i cannot seemc to download my emails without it crashing, i have Mcafee Internet security and antivirus. I tried to download ccleaner and ewido from the malware/spyware removal guide but it says they cannot download. Anyone any ideas as to…
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Panda Titanium question
I'm using Panda Titanium 2005 (with 100% satisfaction it has to be said), I noticed yesterday that the icon in the sys tray has the magnifying glass moving around on it, & if you hover over the icon, it says "scanning e-mail". Pretty obvious so far I suppose, but it's now been doing it for well over 12 hours!, I've checked…
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CD or DVD writer for oldish laptop
I have been given an Acer Travelmate 220 which is about 3 years old and does not have any re-writer. I was looking for an external one, either dvd or cd, that would work well with it. It only has bog standard usb, no firewire. It has an ethernet connection if that is of any use! At the moment it just has a cd drive. Any…
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Transferring MP3 files to WMA on Creative Zen
I just bought a creative zen player and not knowing much about it spent several hours transferring a load of albums on to it as MP3s at 128. It has used up just over half the free space already, much more than I expected and after reading up on the internet I've realised I should have downloaded them on WMA at 64 instead…
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Cheap best video card??
Hi, hope you can help here; I'm trying to build up a reasonable machine out of bits I'm collecting. Wait for it, here's what I'm running at the moment; a Cyrix 266 with 128Mb of RAM with a 32Mb Creative GeForce 2 (about 5 years old), and a 3com 802.11b PCI card. It is an absolute heap. This is what I've collected so far..…
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Any good scanners for large negs ?
Hi folks, I have been looking for a reasonably priced scanner for scanning hundreds of old negatives I've never developed. I was looking at the Plustek Opticfilm 7200 which is approx £115, which looks really good value,but I've got load of old 120 and 127 negatives and this scanner will only do 35mm which I'd like to do…
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Attention MS Word users - Microsoft Word Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability
2006-05-19 Secunia has issued a rare "Extremely Critical" Secunia advisory for a "Zero-day" vulnerability in Microsoft Word.:doh: Solution : Do not open untrusted Office documents:naughty: . This is just for information....
