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need cheap scanner
I currently have a PSR 216 but the problem with it is i have lost the battery part (have the bottom but not the part u put batterys in to) anyway- ive looked at icom ic-05 but price can varey from shop to shop. i need a scanner which can scan HF and VHF and also in the 205/206 frequencys. any ideas? thanks
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Some advice re wiring up a diplex for freeview
Hello, We have a communal aerial in our flats, and our housing assoc is wanting to charge £100 :eek: to wire the thing up for us! big long story, but we aint prepared to pay it! We arranged to get aerial dudes out for quotes etc, and they explained to Malky (who is fab at diy etc) that the wiring is in place, but needs to…
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web hosting sites
My wife wants to sell her own specialist home made craft goods online and we're thinking about getting our own website.:confused: can anyone give some advice--ie good/bad/ugly? Are there any good value web hosting sites that are well known? or do we just go by the ads and read all the small print?:beer:
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Two computers - both gone mad since last MS update. Anyone else?
Hi all. I have a desktop and a laptop at home on a wireless network and they have both gone completely mad over the last two days but in different ways. The laptop (Gericom) has started to display an error message on start up saying that due to a registry error, it has had to use a copy but that it was successful.…
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broken video recorder
Hi, can anyone help/advise? My Hitachi video recorder has suddenly developed a problem - when I record/play video the picture is ok but sound is very noisy/distorted. I can adjust by using the channel tracking buttons but I can either have good sound and no/black& white lines for a picture or a good picture but distorted…
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Wanted: External Hard Drive
Anyone know of any good deals on external hard drives as I'm looking for one that is 250GB or larger - I don't mind if its instore or online. Thanks.
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New Wmf Bug On The Loose
QUOTE A researcher with the pseudonym of cyanid-E yesterday published a new WMF vulnerability, which he says he reported to Microsoft in late June. The vulnerability exploits the same GDI Client DLL library (gdi32.dll) as did the previous zero-day WMF flaw WMF flaw...Unlike its predecessor, though, the new WMF…
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XP & new motherboard.
Hi, RE: my post http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=239022 New mobo on it's way, however what I need to know is will the original windows run from the hdd, or do I have to buy a new copy? Basically it's the original pc that came with windows preinstalled, but it will have a new psu & new mobo. Cheers.
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Refreshing MSE.com
Hi hope someone can shed some light on this, everytime I com to this site into forum from favorites it shows me the index from the last time I looked at it, so if I looked at it 10..00am this morning all the post will be up to then. If I go into a thread I have to refresh that. I took a look in internet options but nothing…
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OE won't connect - Help please!!!
OK here goes: I have uninstalled Norton and installed free software including AVG. However when I try to read my email I get this AVG window at the bottom trying to scan the email but nothing happens and it just hangs there, then I get a message saying that the server terminated the OE connection. I have uninstalled AVG…
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what do you think about the upcoming windows vista?
give your opionion please it seem look nice, but require a very good pc to run it.
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A/V Cables: Help & Advice needed
While I know my way around computers and computer accessories, I need to cable my sister's a/v equipment and I'm looking for a source of advice and cheap cables (interconnects, phono, speaker cable, etc.). Could someone send me a source for the dummy's guide to wiring up surround sound? And where are the best deals to be…
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help! - dvd reader advice
I can't play a set of dvd's on my computer dvd player and have been told I need a DVD reader. I've found something I think is a freeware one on the internet. Is it safe to download stuff like that ? or do you have to buy one - and if so how much do they cost ? I'm such a computer thickie I'd never even heard of one till…
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internet explorer 7 slow down
hey i've been using internet explorer 7 beta 3 for a few weeks and actually quite like it. However over the last few days it has slowed down dramatically when loading web pages. I done the usual checks for spyware/viruses and clean as a whistle. Also downloaded all the updates from microsoft and theres no improvement. Was…
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Password manager
I am looking for a password manager download for free if possible, finding it very difficult to keep up with all my passwords etc, any suggestions please....
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Fujitsu Hard drive problems
I recently purchased a 30 gb Fujitsu Hard drive to try and work as an external hard drive and am having some issues. It is a Fujitsu MPG3307AT My Packard bell computer(which is running on XP) will not recognise it at all even set as an internal slave or a sole hard drive. I tried setting it up and installing windows on it…
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copying cd
i'm probably being realy stupid trying to copy a cd on a laptop with a single drive with nero therefore it needs to copy image to harddisk it does this then i try to copy a blank cd...it spends about 60 secounds saying its doing it it says its finished succesfully....so look at cd and its still blank what am i doing wrong?
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Split-screen view in IE6
Does anyone know the shortcut on IE6 to get two equal browser windows side-by-side? I used to do this and can't remember now! TIA
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How to transfer a large file by email?
I have a CD downloaded onto my computer and want to transfer it by email to my daughter, but yahoo says the file is too large approx 30mb and it will only upload a file of 10mb. I have tried sending it as a zipped file, but it will still not upload to yahoo.
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Quick question: which size memory stick?
I'm hoping someone a bit more au fait with technology'll be able to give me a quick answer to this one- I'm about to buy my first digital camera, (mainly for capturing qood quality holiday snaps!) - a Sony 6 megapixel model which uses 'Memory Stick Duo' cards as storage. Basically, I'm not sure whether I want a 512 mb card…
