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Techie Stuff
Archives for August 2006
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My flash player has gone!!
I have quite a new computer and im sure i had flash player.Now when i go to one site that i normally go to it tells me i need flash player and i have 0 flash player. Where did it go ? or did i never have one on my new computer and would the website have changed?
Routers (dg834gt) and servers
Ok.. So I assume i'll be buying another netgear DG834GT when I move house in september. Is there away to set the default gateway on the router to a server for instance. The reason for this is to limit bandwidth to users of the network.. only 4 or 5 pc's but still, wil filesharing etc going on it'll be annoying. The theory…
64 bit CPU - 64 bit OS?
Ok... having been out of the PC world for a while (still running a Dual PIII) I have decided that the old beast needs replacing now that the new Intel Duo-Core chips have come about. Clearly in the long term, more and more 64 bit software and hardware will be about but my question is... right now, if you have a 64 bit…
Size of photos transferred from Camera
Hi, Can anyone help me?! When we transfer our photos from digital camera to computer the files are massive - is there anyway we can get them to be smaller? Each photo we transfer is well over 1000 KB - normally between 1500 and 1700!
Locked pdf application form?
Morning all. I have a large application form in pdf format but it seems to be locked. I can't fill in any of the fields. Not much use to me when I need to bounce it back and fore to my colleague for comments. Am I missing something really simple here?
Lost files/images recovery proram needed
:j Hi all, can anyone please help me. My 3 year old accidently deleted over 200 images of my microdrive (camera). It hasn't been formated and no pictures have been taken since so they should be still there. I run a freebie program to check if it would pick them up and it did - but have to pay to recover them. Does anyone…
Hard Drive Question
Can anyone give me advice on how to connect up my old hard drive to my new one to retrieve photos etc. My old PC no longer works. Many thanks in advance, Adam.
This techie board is ace...
Hi thanks to wonderful techie people on this board I'm halfway there to resolving a problem I had trying to upgrade my mcafee virusscan. Anyway I had problems with a hidden conflicting antivirus, which thanks to techie help here I managed to get shot of , now however , my outlook express is wonky and says I need to…
PAYPAL emails
Have received 4 spoof email proclaiming to be from PAYPAL today one of the subjects is "Matthew Eldridge has just sent you $90.00 USD with PayPal" they are for various sums of money. There is a link to click on it but I am just warning people not to click on any link in this kind of email. If you ever receive and email…
installing pc1 slot
think that is the right name......the slot for 3g data cards, my work note book does not have this slot but does have a floppy drive as well as a cdr drive so I was wondering if I would be able to get the 3.5 floppy taken out and the appropiate slot put in...........never used the the floppy slot. many thanks in advance.…
Free PC to fax, fax to PC
Can anyone recommend a free, simple to install, easy to use PC to fax and fax to PC download? My fax machine seems to have died. Yes, I could just get it fixed or replace it... but I've heard other people talking about sending/receiving faxes via their PCs... and thought maybe I should look into this. Thanks. Gert
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