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blue tooth or 2 way radio for canal boat?
sounds strange but.. my brother has just moved onto a long canal boat and my dad wants to buy him a thing to help him communicate with the person at the front of the boat.. he has looked at 2 way radios and thinks they are a good idea but they have wires on thier headphones and boating involves lots of jumping onto locks…
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Help with Windows Explorer problems
Hi, last week something happened and my Win98 computer would not start with an explorer.exe error. I managed to replace the current explorer.exe with a later, bigger version of explorer.exe and I was able to boot up. The problems I have now are :- 1. When I open any folder, the files are not listed in the right-hand pane.…
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Ubuntu help?
Hi all, I've just installed ubuntu onto my laptop and as I'd backed up all my stuff from XP I didn't bother going for the dual boot option. It installed fine, but I had some trouble configuring my broadcom wifi card. It works now after following the guides on the ubuntu forum. I have to say that I'm quite impressed with…
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Elonex support
Elonex went into administration and has been bought by a consumables company who is not honouring the 3 year support contract that came with my Elonex Lumina. Any repairs are therefore chargable at £200 for home visit or £100 if I return it to them. I assume since its "just" a PC I should be able to get a local company to…
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Reliable, easy to use Printer wanted - any suggestions?
I currently have a Lexmark P704 but the inks cost a fortune. I'd rather have something more economical - can anyone recommend one please.
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Upto £800 for laptop,advice please?
Bought myself a Acer Aspire 5672 but just hate the sound and can send it back. There are a few radio stations that can only be heard over the internet that I like listening too. I had a Toshiba which gave great quality sound. Anyway i progress: I don't play games,but do use Office alot (especially excel,powerpoint,word)…
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Need 1600 x 1200 resolution....
hi I would like to get 1600 x 1200 res on my desktop i am planning to upgrade to a 19" TFT but my display settings only allow me to go up to 1280 x 1024 with my current 17" CRT - will I need a new graphics card to do this or just a new monitor? CHeers Matt
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Mobile p/w Subsidy p/w??
I have just fixed my old phone put a different simcard in it but now it has locked and only asks for a subsidy password??? Any ideas?? Thanks
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free online storage for folders?
I'm leaving work this week and want to take my hundreds of files home - is there any way I can just store one folder containing all the files online and then pick it up at home? All the services I've found want me to upload it a file at a time! tia love Judith x
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Reviewing windows update history . . . issues ?
:confused: I decided to have a look at my M$ windows update history. So everything was OK until I went back to March this year where there are 4 updates with a red circle and question mark against them. Followed the instructions, clicked the question mark and waited for instructions of how to correct the 'errors'. Instead,…
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Top Quality DVD+R
Hi advice please I wish to transfer around 50 mini DV tapes onto PC and transfer onto DVD for future use i have had dvd blank before qulality not so good can anyone recommned good quality dvd+r at a good price which will last for many years? thanks
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Processor bus?
Have used Belarc to find all my bios but need to know if my processor bus is 533Mhz or 667Mhz? Thanks 1,67 gigahertz Intel Pentium III 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Also perhaps you can help me out with a couple of other problems? Bought my laptop from Comet online, was stated the…
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broadband networking. Do I have to go wireless?
I just signed up broadband for the first time with talk talk. I have 2 PCs, in 2 different rooms. I want to know whether it is possible to use 2 computers at the same time or one at a time without the need of going wireless?
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Audigy 2 Card in Dell 5150 - Front Ports
Just replaced my onboard sound on the Dell 5150 from a few months back with a nice shiny Audigy 2 ZS from ebay (very nice card) but, as expected, the front panel headphone jack has stopped working. Does anyone know of any easy ways to re-connect the jacks from the front or am i looking at a headphone splitter thingy.…
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FTP Software
I am in the process of setting up a basic website. I was using WS-FTP Software to upload my files with great success. I then made significant changes to my web pages and copied and dragged a bunch of files all at once out of the website and back into my directory to prepare to upload the new files. Since then I cannot…
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Mc Afee help plz
I keep getting a square coming up for winlogon.exe requesting access path c/window/system32/winlogon.exe I keep clicking on block access but it just keeps poping up, does anyone know what it is & should I keep blocking it or just grant access, thanks guys.:confused:
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Leapfrog Messenger
I have just downloaded bingo liner lost my bonus so unistalled it bit its left a icon on my taskbar of a frog named as above any idea what it is and how i get rid of it?
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cheapest & easy to use bluetooth headset
I have a Nokia 6230i and want to buy a hands free kit, can anyone recommend cheapest/easiest to use model please?
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Epson R240
HELLO I have just acquired a new epson r240 from boots at price of £55, where is the best place to buy new ink cartridges, thank you in advance
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Urgent help finding a new router
Hello. My belkin F5D7630-4A has now died and I'm looking for a replacement router. I have looked at some of the manufacturers, Belkin, Netgear, Linksys and Zyxel but am am a bit stumped due to the large choice. I don't know whether I want to go for a 108/125Mbps router, as that woudl require upgrading all my wireless cards…
