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New Scanner
I am looking to purchase a new scanner mainly to scan negatives and slides, and have been looking at the following scanner for about £60:- CanoScan 4200F - it's features are:- 3200 x 6400dpi with 48 bit colour depth FAU for up to 4 x 35mm transparencies Super-fast scan engine USB 2.0 Hi-Speed QARE Level 2 dust/scratch…
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TV in France
Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes... my Grandparents are moving to France. They have been told they need some form of Sky card to be able to get BBC/ITV etc over there, costing about £70, anyone know more about this and where we can get it cheaper? Cheers in advance
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How do you load xp Pc in Full Dos Mode?
Hi I was just wandering if it was possible to restart my pc so it loads up in Ms-dos mode.. I have xp but a very old game needs the pc loaded in full dos-mode. i know on windows 95/98 i used to hold down shift or shift F8 when the pc loaded and then this stopped the Operating sytem loading. hope someone can help! Thanks
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Recently used aps in start menu.
I'm hoping someone can give me some idea why my recently used aps are no longer showing up in the start menu? I have it set to show 5 but for the last few days it hasn't been showing any at all. It's not a huge inconvenience but I'm so used to having it there that it's bugging me not knowing how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks
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Components to build a new PC
Hi all, I'm looking to build my next PC but wanted to get som einput into which components would be best. I want to spend £500 max. and io need the following components: 1) Processor (I've seen the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ S939 OEM for £123) 2) Motherboard (Asus A8N-E SKT 939 NFORCE 4 AUDIO LAN PCI-Express ATX for £60. Can I…
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Divx/Mp4 enclosures - player
Has anyone used Divx - MP4 enclosures such as this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HDD-PLAYER-3-5-MP4-MP3-Divx-DVD-VCD-VIDEO-PHOTO-NEW_W0QQitemZ170007724553QQihZ007QQcategoryZ15055QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem They seem to be similar to normal hard disk ones, with some additional controls to make the HD connect to a TV and output a signal…
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Does anyone know?
If my BroadBand fails as it might do tonight and i need it for work. Can i unplug the cable in the back of my cable box and does that go into my phone line and then i can use a dial up PAYG??? I would look but it means moving the tv almost and wanted to see if anyone knew, i only ask as the cable is about 15m long! and i…
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voice recogination software
i am looking to buy a cheap and GOOD voice recogination software. any suggestions. thanks in advance
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Subdreamer
Thinking of buying this web page authoring programme . Does anyone know if it is very good?
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My Picture Folder to CD
The folder is 2Gb+ and I ant to xfer it to CDs. Is there a way to do it wjithout having to extract the folders within it separately?
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Laptop Processor Questions
Hi Guys and Guy-esses, I'm getting a new laptop, and am going to get one with the following specs: 15" screen 1.6Ghz + processor 512 RAM DVDRW 60GB+ HDD Inbuilt WIFI Now, the things I'll mainly be using it for are: - Basic word processing / excel / coursework etc.. - Firefox - Paintshop Pro - NO real gaming - MSN etc.. I…
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computer goes to sleep
hi my emachine has started to seem to go to sleep the screen just turns black and you can do nothing with it ,you just have to turn it of at the plug and wait about 1 min and restart it and it just starts up as if nothing has happened any ideas ,i am running xp with sp2
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Any Good, Free Screenshot software out there?
Any advice please? Thanks.
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Just bought a Dell, what software should I remove?
Hi, sorry for the long title, but it's fairly self explanitary, I've got a 5150 for my dad and I have read several times on here about people uninstalling a bunch of programmes Dell "kindly" install for you. We aren't computer wizzes and would appreciate any advice you'd care to throw in this direction. Thanks
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Is Gmail/Google down?
Hello all. Is anyone else having problems accessing their Gmail e-mail or Google? Since around 4pm, can't access either gmail.com or google.com although froogle.com works fine. Really disappointed about this as not even my Gmail e-mail checker can check the account, I use that account as my primary account and check it at…
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Cometcurser virus
Hiya all I keep getting this hightlighted as potential spyware, up my my norton virus scanner (with bt yahoo broadband) every now and again. The virus scanner sorts it out but then I get it again. Two websites I visited the other day (furniture nothing dodgy!) had two pop ups that opened in another window both for gambling…
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Oh God please help! Apple mac issue
Hi all, This site has been so helpful in the past and i'm preying someone can help me now. I've recently moved to rural France from London and have learnt a painful lesson the hard way. A lightening strike hit our phone lines and fried my imac G3. So far so bad. I've bought a new computer (the new imac intel core duo) and…
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Dell contact email addy??
Does anyone here know the email addy to contact Dell please?? I could do with it and have had no luck in finding it on google or on their site, unless I am being completely blind.:rolleyes:
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Great freeware mp3 converter
Hi Was going to tag this on to the end of another thread, but thought it was worth just posting the link itself (I'm not affiliated or anything!), especially as another programme I recently recommended, thinking it was freeware, timed out yesterday! This one just involves the sending of a key after doing the free download,…
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Battery checkers
I have a battery checker. Yesterday I checked the strength of a rechargeable battery and forgot to remove it afterwards. When I checked it, it straddled 'Replace' and 'Good'. Today it's totally flat. What technically has happened? I've read that completely discharging batteries from time to time is a good thing - doesn't…
