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NTL driving me mad
Canceled my ntl tv package completly about a month ago as we made very little use of it. I made an arrangment with them to collect the set top box about a week later..... Never turned up. Phoned them and they said sorry and made new appointment about a week later again....Never turned up. So phoned again they said sorry…
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Are PC World telling me porkies?
I bought a Philips MT1400 PC from PC World advertised with 256MB Power Colour ATI 9250 Graphics. Only it isn't 256mb it's only a 128mb card and according to PC world the other 128mb is shared with the system RAM. Anyone know if this is true?
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Div-X DVD Player - Any suggestions?
I am looking to buy a DVD player that plays Div-X and XVid discs. Managed to get last one in ALdi today but it is displaying a double screen and the remote control is missing:mad: I think they were selling them a fortnight ago - but was on holiday so missed the boat.. Has anyone got any suggestions of good price one in the…
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DVD with HDD ?which to choose
Need some info on these please. Has anyone any recommendations on which one to buy. Need something reliable. Was thinking of the Digifusion with 80 gig HDD, but a friend has just returned his to Argos for an exchange cos it packed up after 2 months! Any advice gratefully received. Shoki
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how to correct blocked email facility...
I have sent my friend an email with 4 fotos attached. it keeps trying to send but then times itself out. (probably it thinks its too big?)then continues, can't do it, and so on, the problem is now i can't send any emails cos this is blocking it, but i can receive them, what i was wanting to do was to be able to take 2…
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PC game trouble
I have recently bought 'Battle for Middle Earth II', it installed nice and quickly, and seems to tun fine. BUT: when i try to begin a new game or go on a 'skirmish' it decides to crash and go back to desktop, showing an average 'serious error report' box. saying that there has been an error with the 'game.dat' file. Is…
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New phone bluetooth help!
i just bought a new phone ( Sagem MY 6-2) and a bluetooth dongle and am trying to upload music to the built in MP3 player but don't know how. any advice?
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Is PC World Performance worth it?
I've been paying £5.99 a month since February '06 for this cover, which allegedly covers me for repairs, yet the small print states ' Occasionally you may have to pay for the repair and claim the cost back to us.' I've not had any problems with my pc so far, so don't know if this insurance is naff, has anyone else used…
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Printer sharing/wireless security
Sometimes I think I must be a fool but unless things are explained to to me as you would a 4 year old I don't geddit. 1. My neighbour has bought a laptop and is picking up my wireless signal, how do I stoppit? 2. Despite many attemps I am unable to let my wife's laptop share my printer. She has to physically plug it in.…
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Car Stereo question ?
Afternoon everyone, Dose anyone know if a car audio unit bought in the states will have the right connecters to work in a UK car ? I’m off there in a couple of weeks and thought I’d take advantage of the dollar rate being on the floor…
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Pop Ups Problem
Can anyone help with a small but irritating problem? When I click on the test score for instance and desk top score board I only get half the board. Thanks
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Vodafone mobile connect 3G data card and Laptop
Hi Sorry but hope you can help me- I am not a very techie person- but I know that you lopt will give me the`right` answer and a sales person- what they think I want to hear. Thinking of getting a laptop and giving my children the desktop. Was looking at one on https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk an AcerTravelmate 2424WXMI- it…
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Portable Hard Drive suggestions
Looking to buy at least a 40Gb portable hard drive (one without the need of a mains supply), must be usb 2.0, anyone suggestions on which one to buy?
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boo hoo can't get my avatar up!
keep trying to do it by following the instructions and it keeps saying file failed.thats weird it's appeared now
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Help with email problems!
Hi, Hoping someone may be able to help me out here! We are having problems with our emails has anyone any solutions or suggestions to the following situations that have and are happening? 1. We have sent a few emails with a couple of photos on from Outlook Express (we are on Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange) to a couple of…
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Non Techie would like a new computer
Please be patient with me as after reading some of the threads in this forum I am feeling completely out of my depth. I have spent the last few days trying to find a good 'value for money' desktop computer, which I have to say is proving to be a difficult task. I am replacing a Siemens Nixdorf Xpert with pentium II…
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how do I find out hard drive size
on a laptop I have? thanks Beth xxx
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Am a dunce at dial-up - and well done AOL!
Long tale....my broadband just wouldn't work late on Thursday night, gave up, tried again Friday morning. No joy either on laptop or home pc, so I did try the usual route of re-installing adaptors, then AOL, no joy. Aol could only pick up on internal modems and not broadband, although it was clearly working just fine, so a…
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converting sky+ to freesat
My friend has sky - £34/month package and the sky+ box. He wants to convert to freesat by cancelling - but also wants to keep the sky+ box. Does anyone know if they take it away and give you a normal box when you pay the £20? Yes I know he should phone and ask - I have mentioned this several times, but am getting nowhere…
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best way to connect dvd recorder to sky+
Hi, just purchased a panasonic dvd recorder, and only really want to use as a way of copying sky+ planner recordings to watch when i get chance before planner full and whilst i am away on business on laptop. My tv has three scart sockets, sky+ is pace prv3 and has 2, dvd recorder has 2. The way i have at present is sky+…
