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Can't get broadband help
I'm thinking of moving to a really delightful cottage but there is one problem. when I go to bt.com it tells me that I can't get broadband so I phoned BT and the women at customer services checked and said its only part of that postcode that couldn't get in. So she put me through to BT Broadband they checked the postcode…
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Help! PC won't switch on
Went into work today after a holiday, switched my standalone PC on, and before I had a chance to entire my password it switched itself off. I thought it might be the fuse but it's not. Before I hand it over to a local repair man does anyone have any advice as to what might have gone wrong? And assuming it's a dead PC how…
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Hotmail messages / MSN and Windows XP
I have a laptop running XP which logs up to a 'Welcome screen' where you can select the user account you want to load. Anyway, my neice came to visit yesterday and I let her use my laptop on my user account to go on MSN. Now every time I reboot the laptop or it times out to the welcome screen, there is a message under my…
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Buying a large flatscreen monitor - best value?
HI, My OH and I want to get a large (at least 19in) flatscreen monitor for our business. Our current screen is way too small to do proper magazine layout. Does anyone have any reccomendations for best resolution/value? We will hopefully have about £150-£200 to spend. Thanks Sarah
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HELP! I cant find this anywhere!
I am looking for a cable with one end RJ45 and the other Serial or PS/2 (keyboard wedge) If somebody has one or knows where to find one please let me know! Cheers Guys Jake
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Dumb question I know but....................
Because our BT box is dowstairs and my computer with one phone is upstairs, we have a three-way adapter. At the BT box we have a three way adapter to accommodate two downstairs phones and the upstairs requirements.Everything worked well under e7even. A week ago I connected to talktalk after an initial hiccup (error 680!).…
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xp- not able to get updates automatically
Hi, can anyone help me before i have no hair left!! I have xp home edition sp1. I went to the update site to download any updates that i need. On one occasion it came up that automatic updates wasnt switched on so i did this by (*)clicking run and services.msc, then i clicked on automatic updates, this was disabled so i…
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easy FTP client
I'm after an easy FTP client (not that I truly understand everything about FTP). I had one a while back that let me browse for a file, it then gave me a url which I gave to someone and they started downloading immediately. anyone know anything like this?
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Tungsten E2 - Uninstalling software
How the heck do you do it?Need to uninstall ViaMitchelen UK, to try and install Europe. Nothing is obvious.Thanks
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mp3/ipod
Hi all, can anyone enlighten me re: the difference between mp3 and ipod (i'm not very techie -minded). I'd like to get one , somewhat in the middle of the range and at a reasonable price. Thanks all
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Pc Coming To A Standstill
Hi out there, I'm in need of a bit of help please. My pc has got progressivly slower of late and is now refusing to shut down form the start menu and I have to turn off the power. I have run McAfee virus scan and nothing showed up. I have firewall and have also run iolo sytem mechanic spython. I am running XP with service…
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Can anyone help with signature?
Hi,I am trying to add a signature. I go into my user control panel and click add signature but no matter what link I use it doesn't seem to work. It says at the bottom html has been turned off,how do I turn this on? Hope someone can help as doing my head in now.
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TV Sender
Hope someone may be able to assist with this. My current set up is: 1) Living room - TV, Sky+ and DVD recorder 2) Bedroom - TV Sky ( tv link connected) 3) Dining room - TV no aerial connection of any type What is the best way (prefer wireless as TV on Internal wall) to get terrestrial tv to this tv. Someone mention a TV…
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External HD question
Hi all, Hope someone can help me out, i'm quickly running out of space on my internal HD, and i'm looking to buy a Western Digital 250gb 'my book' external HD (7200rpm). I would like to know first before the plunge, if connected to USB2 would it be quick enough to burn from this external HD to my internal pioneer dvd-rw…
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Connecting to wireless broadband - clueless!
Yikes, scratch that earlier message, I've just read lower down in this bit of the board - I didn't realise it was unsafe/illegal. How do you safely and legally use your own broadband on the move with a laptop then? I don't like the idea of other people in the road being able to use my broadband and/or read my files. Can…
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Digital Camera problems
Morning Folks, I have recently returned from my holidays in Canada during which time i took around 340 photo's on my digital camera (using a 1GB SD Card). However when i got home and loaded them onto my PC i was only able to view around 175 of them, the rest were just coming up with the dreaded red X. I can still view all…
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myserverworld
I was wandering around the internet and when trying to access one site I was redirected to the myserverworld.com website in order to upgrade the 'virtual control panel' for the site I was trying to access. My questions; Is this (myserverworld) a legit site? And what the hell is a virtual control panel? Regards X
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Linux question
Hi all, in the process of migrating from xp to linux. Installed Suse 10.1 and updated packages. It seems to have updated kernel modules (/lib/modules/), and the kernel doesn't know where to find them anymore - its still looking for the old version modules. I can't load any modules, so pretty much nothing works. Any ideas…
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help required with FSB and BIOS settings!
Hi there, I have just replaced a faulty motherboard on my dads old socket A Athlon XP PC, and need a bit of assistance with the FSB and BIOS settings. The CPU is a Athlon XP 2100+, but is only being recognised as a 1500+. My setup is as follows: 2 x 256MB PC2700 (333MHz) ASRocks k7s41 motherboard Leadtek Nforce 64Mb AGP…
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How do you disable the Modem, please.
Further to my thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=249605 My DD has confirmed that somebody is using her home computer to connect to the web. She does not connect herself and therefore her computer has no firewall or anti- virus etc installed. She feels her best security is to disable the Modem.…
