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Mains powered scanner
Looking for a reasonable mains powered scanner, most of the ones that I see take the power from the usb port and this causes a power surge message on my computer. Any recomends?
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Changing language on Open Office
I have just pasted a chunk of text arriving in Word into an Open Office document. The Word text was written in US English and Open Office's spell check is now querying all text being put into UK English. My default setting on Open Office is UK English, but I cannot find a way of changing the setting on the document I am…
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NTL Broadband Upgrades
If any of you are waiting for your broadband bandwidth to be upgraded by NTL you will probably need to re-boot your cable modem before the changes take effect I tested my speed this morning at ~2Mb, expecting it to have been upgraded by now - re-booted the modem & now it's at ~4Mb :j
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yahoo mail problem.. weird one
for the last few days whenever i try to access yahoo mail i get the compose mail page come up... if i cancel that and click inbox i still get compose mail screen despite it saying in the address bar inbox... in fact i cant access anything except compose mail screen now this is where it gets weird.. i can access other yahoo…
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Laptop not identifying the Camera when connected by USB
Hi there, I recently bought a casio z120 digital camera and when I tried to connect to my Laptop (Dell inspiron 1300, Windows XP), the laptop is not identifying the camera although the camera says that tring to eastablish connection and after 3 min says connection failed. All other USB devices work fine on the laptop. I…
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Sonic Update Problem!!
On booting up PC,Keep getting a box..Sonic Update Manager..stating,the feature you are trying to use is on a cd-rom..or other removable dic that is not available. Insert the Sonic update manager disk and click ok.. Havent got one,never had..it`s a Dell. How do i clear this???
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Minimizing a screen
Hope somebody out there can help me every time i minimize my screen the page drops to the bottom of the screen (Taskbar) and just vanishes as if you had in fact closed the page even if you then drag the taskbar up you can not find the minimized page.
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Error Report
I get an error report every time I close down Internet Explorer (regardless of which website I look at - home page is MSE). This has been evident since I downloaded and ran ccleaner. Could I have 'cleaned' out something vital? Should I go back to before downloading ccleaner? I also get an occasional error on closing but…
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Hijackthis.log
Hello, I was wondering whether anyone could have a look at my hijackthis.log and let me know the state of my computer. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 02:35:45, on 05/07/2006 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes:…
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P4 or AMD
Hi everyone Can anyone please tell me which is a better processor to buy. Is it AMD or Pentium? Thank you
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Using Excel to mailmerge address list
I'm trying to produce a simple school address list with a few extra details to distribute before the end of term. I've got names, addresses, tel nos. etc. in an Excel database but I'm struggling to produce a readable list. We're using Word 2003 and Excel 2003 which doesn't seem anywhere near as friendly as the older…
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Does DAB radio work abroad?
Hello Please can anyone advise me if I buy a personal DAB radio will it work overseas? I can not be bothered with downloading on to MP3/IPOD and so I am considering DAB radio as a travel companion. I look forward to your advice/comments. Thank you.
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Digital Ixus
I had a new Ixus, which i bought at the barganous price of £120. I loved it so much! Unfortunately it was stolen, uninsured(well excess too high). I need a new Ixus but am so annoyed at having to pay ... Don't mind if it's an old model, just want one of the small Ixus models...Cheapest I can find is £115 - can anyone do…
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AMD X2 or Pentium D?
I'v read about the price drops but just wondered which dual core processor is better. Any opinions please?
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Help please?!! Comp. VERY slow
Hiya, can someone help me, (again!) please? Running very slow - almost to a standsill - taken ages to get to MSE. Friend said could be the weather? I'm with NTL broadband. Done defrag. and don't know what to do next. Did have a scam email reply to an ad I placed on Loot site (from - ****removed***** Beware!!!!!! Wondering…
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How to block emails????
I am getting emails from different people but all with the same content. Erection problems and a little pill you put under your tongue!!!! Well I dont have erection problems I can stand up all by myself thank you!!!! Seriously I am getting around 3-4 of these a day (that is when I have internet connection, but thats…
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don't want to use aol's software?
some people have asked for instructions so i will post them here. if you dont want to use aol's kak software to access the internet, but instead prefer to use internet explorer then follow the instructions below. if you want to access your emails then you can either goto aol.com and read them that way or use outlook…
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making a website with front page
hi, a friend asked me the other day how can i make my website using frontpage, i dont know much about front page apart from how to make a page and save it, i have found some pages on the internet but they are very long, it would be great if you could post any answers he would like to know when he has made a page and then…
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which windows
I'm considering upgrading DO I want: Windows XP professional or Windows XP Home
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What do I need now?
I have just bought this for my laptop: Linksys Wireless-G WPC54G PCMCIA Laptop Card 2.4GHz 802 What do I need to get now so that I can acces my broadband wirelessly? I access it through a ethernet cable connected to a wired router at the moment. I connect through the phoneline via Supanet. Thank you!
