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512mb ddr2 or 1gb of ddr
I need a new motherboard to match my new 2.8ghz skt 775 processor. I currently have 1gb of ddr in my current system that is only a couple of months old and 512mb ddr2 that I was given along with the processor. The question is which road should I choose ? Any help gratefully received. Ali.
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Sony dvd recorder
Does anyone have any experience of the RDR-HXD710? Is it any good and is it worth £375.69? TIA
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Newbie - what do I need to watch TV on my PC ?
Can anyone please post a link, or email what I need to buy to watch TV on my PC ? ( have a licence ! ) Is it possible, should really be my first question. . . I am virtually IT illiterate so please explain in non-techie terms. Some info re My PC: win xp, win media player, intel pentium 4,1gb ram, 3.06ghz,140gb harddrive .…
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MSE techie trouble
Bear with me on this and sorry for the one paragraph but I can't do it any other way ... I shall explain. For some reason, when I open MSE on my laptop I get lots of 'script error' dialogue boxes and have to repeatedly press enter to go through the boxes and then the way the page is then set out is awful. I can read…
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connecting 2nd pc to router problems
I am trying to connect a 2nd pc to my netgear DG834G with a wired connection. PC 1 is a xp wired to the router and working ok PC 2 is a 98 se which i have connected to the router with a RJ45 straight but not working (yet) I think i will have to enter the IP address of the 98 into the settings page of the router, to allow…
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Anyone recommend a dual VHS/DVD recorder?
Having bought the cheap Technika DVD recorder from Tesco at Christmas for my parents I have seen them fail to adopt the new technology, and their efforts have been let down by the unreliable(at reading discs) Technika. I'm hoping to get a refund for it and my Mum would like a player that records both DVDs and VHS. I've…
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Webcam Motion Dector Software
Hi, I'm look for some free software i can use with my webcam that detects motion and takes a picture!, there used to be some software that came with logitech cameras that did this, is there any other freeware programs that can do it Thanks Tom :-)
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Belkin 54g
Although in the manual it says that it`s possible to turn off the firewall for the above wireless router I cannot find a way to do this.I prefer my own third party firewall.Any ideas please?
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MS Access field focus problem
Someone is going to have come across this before, so I'll ask here and be lazy....save me thinking about it too hard :D In a simple access database, when inputting information into a field, some users are using a scroll mouse to try and scroll down the field. When they do this, the DB scrolls through the records, rather…
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Is my computer sending unsolicited emails mails?
Over the last two months I have an ever increasing amount of emails saying “no reply” or not known or blocked by server. These are mails I did not send out so must be being generated elsewhere, I am now getting 20 to 40 a day. I have run virus scans and can find nothing out of the ordinary. I am using Thunderbird as my…
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Possible to recover txt messages on a mobile?
Hi all, would anyone know whether the usual flash based memory file recovery software will work on recovering txt messages from a mobile phone Sony Eriscsson w800i? I can connect the phone up to the PC and see both the phone and the memory card as readable drives in 'My Computer'. Would anyone know what file format the txt…
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Extracting images from a PDF
I have a PDF that I need to extract images from. If I use Acrobat, the quality of the image is poor since it seems to copy at screen resolution. I had done one or two previously using a trial version of Illustrator and that worked really well. However, I the trial has expired. Is there any way of extracting an image from a…
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zestyfind aka look2me.com
we're finally getting to grips with the catalogue of computer bugs and viruses on our poor old PC, and now the time has come to wave goodbye to zestyfind :D ive done some googling, and symantec has listed a long and complicated sounding way of going into safemode, deleting registry keys, re-naming this and that..and im not…
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Recovering a bad DVD-R
This is really the last time I use a DVDR to store home movies! They just seem to deteriorate quickly over time. I bought some TDK's, burned my home movies and put them in a CD sleeve in my cupboard. Couple of months later, my PC can't read some of the sectors. No scratches or anything. Does anyone know any tools I can use…
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Blueyonder webmail - sent emails
Hi all I normally use outlook express for my emails (with a blueyonder account) but sometimes send emails from this account using the blueyonder webmail service. When I do this the sent email is then stored in the 'sent emails' folder in the webmail site I would like to have a record of sending the email in my outlook…
