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Dell Inspiron laptop HELP
Hope someone can help here Think my oh has fried the hard drive in her laptop its a Dell inspiron 8100. When you try to start it you get a page saying windows cannot start due to new hardware/software it then flashes an error message then nothing. It was clicking like mad yesterday but nothing now. Question is is there any…
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50% off web hosting @ 1and1 + £25 from quidco
Bit late for me so may not make too much sense, sorry, but wanted to get it on as it runs out at midnight tonight (7th September). 1and1 have 50% off their webhosting packages the cheapest of which is £5.86 a month and you get a free domain name with this too. So for 1 year with the discount it will be just under £36 and…
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The UK's Cheapest PC Base Unit
Hi, I am trying to find the cheapest PC base unit in the UK. It must be brand new with a 12 month warranty minimum and include Case, Motherboard, Optical Drive, Hard Drive, Memory, CPU and include VAT and be available to the general public. The cheapest I have found is at EPCBuyer and is £155.08 inc VAT and you get 5% at…
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Affiliate programs
Can one set up affiliate programs and then use them to buy things, giving yourself commission-I assume that's against the terms and conditions, and the affiliate registration would be the same as the buyer-hence a big red flag? But what about family members at the same household? I assume friends are ok, but what about…
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junk mail
I seem to be getting a lot of junk mail recently and after looking at who sends it a lot of the emails look like fdgflhgdflghgsdsds@yahoo.com If I block yahoo.com will I no longer be able to get this junk mail? Or is there a better solution to it
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Wireless broadband - Can anyone help
I just bought a wireless adsl router for a friend Its a AWR-2440 125M Wireless Firewall ADSL2+ 4port router to be precise. It comes with a USB wireless dongle I bought it from Aria and the make is a HiPoint eu Theres no indication of a support website anywhere on the manual or on the packaging and I resent having to pay…
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Fast help needed, Hormonal teenager locked out of Messenger!
My daughter can't sign into Messenger Live, since last night It gives an error code 80004005 which isn't explained on the help site. The rest of us are ok and she's just gone round to a friends and can sign in there. Has anyone any ideas Please
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Format email for video to USA
I want to email some video from my camcorder to the US. What are my options regarding compression and and are there any Pal/ntsc issues to sort out.
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Excel 97 help
I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this type of question but I thought it was worth a try. I am working on an Excel 97 spreadsheet at work that is to record the results of a questionnaire exercise we undertook recently. What i want is to have in a cell a running total. So that whatever number is in it will be added…
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Flash And Powerpoint
Hi A friend who runs a charity has asked my to do a PowerPoint presentation for her charity, using images from their website http://www.clmi.org.uk/ Their website images are in flash, can I convert these images to use in a PowerPoint presentation. Thanks in advanced.
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Power Consumption of PC when switched off
Hey Hey, :D I got a master/slave multiplug from Tchibo which cuts the power to 6 slave sockets when the master appliance (PC) is switched off. However, it said in the catalogue that the threshold would not need adjusting unless the appliance used more than 10W when off. When I plugged my PC in and then turned on the mains,…
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Help with USA PSP games, please!
Is it possible to play PSP games bought from America on a UK bought PSP. please? Hopefully, this will be a simple qestion to answer! I would like to buy the Disney Cars game for our PSP, which costs the same in dollars as it does in pounds! Many thanks for any help given!
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3com router wireless????
I am trying to setup a wireless network at home. I have a 3com wireless router, which is connected to my PC via an ethernet cable. My laptop is linked via a LAN USB dongle. The connection to the internet is always breaking, due to low signal, despite the laptop being about 10 metres away, in the same house. My PC has to…
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Retrieving data from hard drive
I've accepted that my old XP PC is not worth repairing and invested in a new one. I'm anxious to transfer the data to the new one and a colleague in work installed the old hard drive as a secondary drive, which the new PC recognised. What's weird (and maddening, not to mention very worrying) is that in Explorer I could see…
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WEP and WPA-PSK security
Hi, help please! can someone tell me what WEP and WPA-PSK is? which would you recommend for a home user using a wireless router (netgear dg834gt)? Also can someone give a step-by-step guide on how to use the type of security you recommend. thank you!
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Software for web design
Can anyone reccomend software for web design that will enable me to create images and manipulate images etc and good tools for web design. Thanks
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HP Printer doesn't like quality paper
I've got an HP psc 2510 photosmart all-in-one printer. It doesn't mind printing on really cheap paper, but anytime I want to use some quality paper (slightly embossed, slighly thicker, glossy etc etc) it throws a wobbly and spits out the 'offending' paper. This is startying to reall annoy me, as I want to use it for…
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questions before i do it...
I have upgraded to aol gold, and have recieved a free Netgear router DG834G. I have read coutless other posts on wireless routers etc and am worried about setting this router up so that two other laptops can also access the internet along with my PC. Question 1. Do i need to install aol onto the laptops before installing…
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Flickering pc flat screen
Hi techies I am really not a techie which is why I need you help. My PC screen has started to flicker when it is first switched on. It is a Sony flat screen and does it everytime I turn it on but settles down after a few minutes. I have checked all the cables are pushed in correctly but do not have a clue what to next.…
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cheap web hosting
hi all wounder if you ca help i got a few idear for website where i will earn income from adsense but i dont really want pay anyhtink out as they idear and dont want pay out more than i got coming in so what i want know does anyone know any good web hosting site that are cheap or free (without loads ads) also domain names…
