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Music Plays in the wrong order
Can anyone help with this one. I have burned some CDs onto my pc and while mostly they are played in the correct order, theres a few albums that although I let them play in advertised order the song playing doesnt relate to the one highlighted, Any ideas. I operate on XP pro and I dont recall ever making any…
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Vista Speech Recognition Demo
LOL............I think they still need some work doing on Vista (I'll stick with Dragonsoft Naturally Speaking). Check out this video
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Installing USB 2.0..
Hello everyone! In the past I have installed USB 2.0 PCI cards on my machine without any problems. However, I have recently purchased a 3.5" card reader for the front of my machine, which also has two USB ports. The connection for the reader itself is USB and so these pop into the USB 2.0 ports on the back of my machine…
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Myspace Users Hit By Hacker Virus
QUOTE Users of the popular MySpace website have been warned by computer experts that viruses linked to the interactive site...are in circulation. Experts believe that hackers have hit the hugely popular site and say the viruses in circulation can change settings, delete files, secretly track users' movements online and…
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Flymo Just Stopped Working
Mother-in-law me up last week. She has a flymo which is no more than a couple of years old, but says that it just stopped working half way few mowing the lawn last week with a bit of smoke. Had a quick look at the thing and cannot see much wrong. Assuming the motor has blown/packed up - is this usual? Can it easily be…
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Can I use gmail/Yahoo email through Outlook
Just wondering if it was possible and if so, how? Thanks
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PC disconnects every 10mins
I'm posting this for a friend who is on dial up, but every 10 mins or so his pc just disconnects from the internet at will. He has done a system restore but the problem is still present. He has gone to Tools, Internet Options, Connections, Clicked on Settings, Properties, Options, and checked Idle time before hanging…
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Take out the hard drive before recycling!
Read this in a paper a few days old so apologies if this is a repeat. I'm sure you techies already know but if you send your computer off to be recycled always ensure the hard drive is completely wiped. Apparently somewhere in Africa, not sure where, where they get sent to for recycling people are accessing files on the…
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Whats a Contigious file? Please
Hi I've just done a "defrag" which I do regularly but I seem to have an expanse of the blue bit, which it says are "contigious files" I don't usually have so much of that, can some one explain if I've got a problem please.
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Free Web Photos?
Hi I have just started building websites for charities and would like to use some photo's to brighten the sites up. Is there any sites I can download photos to use on the sites? Thanks in advanced
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Yahoo hacked!
Ok this is a problem that I have never been able to solve. A few years back I had my Yahoo a/c hacked, the hacker had somehow succesfully accessed my account and changed my password. As it was at the time, my original email used to set up the Yahoo account, was no longer valid as I had by then changed my internet provider.…
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email problem- please help!!
Hi, I have my email account with www.safe-mail.net. However, i can't sign in! I'm putting my username and password in but it just won't go to my inbox. The computers been formatted recently and i haven't been able to sign in for three days!! Can someone please help.
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Wintv language probs
I am trying to reclaim a p.c. which I handed down to my daughter a few years ago when I bought a lappy and which she has subsequently discarded after Father Christmas made his annual visit last year and left a lappy behind. After getting rid of all the rubbish on it, defraging and virus checking, I saw that I had installed…
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TrueCrypt - Admin rights needed
Anyone know a way around this? I've tried using TrueCrypt on a pc with restricted access, but it won't work due to needing admin rights on that machine. Or alternatively could anyone suggest a program that's of similar quality/strength, but doesn't need admin rights?
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Is this memory compatible?
Further to my earlier problems, see post: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=247211 I have found a new mobo and processor that I think is ok but I'm wondering whether my existing ram will fit. I have DDR PC2700 • CL=2.5 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR333 • 2.5V • 256Meg x 64 at the moment, and the new mobo…
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Current best music download site ?
Can anyone recommend the best music download site for burning downloaded tracks onto cds please ?
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Transferring photos back onto memory card
Hello everyone, I really hope someone can help with this. I want to be able to upload photos onto my computer, edit them and then transfer them back onto a memory card. I have got one of those funky digital frames which display the photos for my brothers wedding and I want to be able to give him a memory card with wedding…
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Socket A CPU and/or motherboard?
Have finally got round to attempting to fix my dead pc. When i switch on it does nothing, not even POST, I can hear everything running but nothing on screen. Have disconnected everything except cpu and hdd and still no joy. Have tested memory, graphics card etc and swopped hdd with another and still nothing, so have come…
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Printer
I currently use an Epson c84 which has developed lines on the printing due probably to lack of use(mainly use laser for B&W) Costing me as much now to clean the printer through as the printer cost. Interested in Canon Pixma IP 4200/ IP5200. Do Canon use the same type of fixed printer nozzle which can block up or is the…
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Vista Beta...Security Patches Issued
If any of you are running the Vista Beta, you need to head over to Windows Update to get a couple of critical security patches. A couple of the issues settled in the last windows update also affect Vista. It's not normal for MS to patch Betas, but they've done so on this occasion.
