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Dell 810 Printer cartridges
I have the cheap and cheerful Dell 810 all-in-one inkjet printer. I've been looking for some replacement cartridges (Dell badge number JF333). I know that Dell own brand ones tend to be expensive & that dell printers tend to be re-badged Lexmark machines. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent lexmark printer & if so…
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Excel Help
Hey guys I hope you understand what I am saying. I am completing a Excel database that my friend started, it has formulas in it. Basically it has information over about 10 sheets. I need to be able to do a search for a town that may be on all the sheets and compile the information to one sheet. Ie. I could do a find search…
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How to cancel popcorn please?
Hi Techies I have been away for the weekend and come back to find my DD has downloaded a 3 day trial for "popcorn license manager" a paying site for music and movies, the trial has ended, but it keeps popping up to make payments as trial has ended, I can only get rid of it by shutting internet down. I have been onto the…
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Internet Phone not recognised
I've just bought a Tesco Internet phone, but despite following all the setup instructions I cannot get the handset to work. My HP Pavilion PC does not want to recognise the USB phone. In Device Manager it is showing as a USB Composite Device - This device cannot start (Code 10). Any suggestions as to what this could be -…
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computer keeps shutting down........
hi, my other pc keeps shutting down after a couple of minutes of it getting into windows. i get an error saying Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Terminated unexpectedly. computer will shut down in 1 minute. it then counts down and shuts off what does this mean and can it be sorted easily? Thankyou Andy
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Google Earth Q
I was messing around on Google Earth just now and I found a big black square in the middle of Essex (I think) - between Brentford and Hanwell. Is this square there on everyone's Google Earth? And if so does anyone know what's there? I have tried Googling but can't find any mention of this black square. And if Area 51 isn't…
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avi videos to dvd vidoes
Hi I'm currently using Nero 6 Ultra Edition software, which enables you to get a avi video off the internet etc and make it into a dvd video so you can watch it on a DVD player e.g. on your TV. The thing is, i've got a 4.3GB avi video (in 2 halves) and it says its going to take almost 3hours to 'transcode' it . Is this…
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Warning: Unresponsive Script??
got an irratating problem with the old pc at the mo. various web pages seem to get stuck when loading. after about 10 seconds, it will either continue and load or i get the following alert... ' Warning: Unresponsive Script a script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. you can stop the script now, or…
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Problems with Mozilla Firefox
Hi Couple of minor problems i'm experiencing with Firefox: everytime i open FF, the window is NOT maximised, i have to manually maximise it. Also the bookmarks toolbar appears everytime, again i have to manually turn this off by going to VIEW>TOOLBARS>BOOKMARKS TOOLBARS. Both of these settings are NOT saved everytime i…
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Cheapest wireless router and dongle package
Hi, Can anybody direct me to a cheap wireless router and dongle package. I seem to remember a website with really good prices but cant for the life of me find it anywhere. Calling on the MSE masses. Thank you
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cheapest dvd recorder and matsui dvdr
bit of a joint thread here! About 15 months ago I bought a cheap (£118) dvd recorder from Dixons I dont know the exact model but it was dvdr then maybe 500 but I cant be sure, I bought it mainly to transfer some old vhs to dvd and worked a treat. However Now the thing seems to have broken and will not come out of standby.…
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dell missing add-ons
i'm in the process of buying a basic dell laptop but i don't see the option for upgrading the graphics card it does not show unless you go for a expensive laptop. thx in advance
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Compaq Ipaq pocket pc hp3900 series
Problem ! A friend has the above hp3900 pocket pc. Bought as a second user with 1software disk ( I seem to think there should have been 2) worked great apparently at first. Then allowed the battery to go flat as a pancake :eek: It had tomtom sat nav installed and a 256mb card. When re-charged sat nav seems to have vanished…
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Hard drive cooling.
Just wondered if anyone has any advice about hard drive cooling. What temps should my drives be running at? I have three drives and I get a bit paranoid thinking it might get too hot in there because of this. Are THESE coolers worth it or a waste of money? I know you can get ones you fit in the CD drive bays but I don't…
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tonnes of junk mail??
i check my email account weekly and unfortunately only find one or two of any importance in my inbox. however i have about 150 in my junk mail how do i stop mail even going into this box, so i dont have to sort thru it all just to see if there is actuall anything important in there for me to read??? :confused:
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Sky HD?
im only paying about £18pm for the basic 4 mix package, but have just bought a LCD TV and am thinking of upgrading to the HD box the way i see it is its £299 for the HD Box, then £10 extra per month for HD? Is this right, and is there anything i can do to get the box 1/2 price or for me not to pay the extra?
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Wireless card not active till I unplug and reinsert it
Hi techies :D I have an external wireless usb thing on my computer but when I boot it up although the little thing in the system tray says I'm connected to my network, I can't get internet access at all until I've either unplugged and reinserted it or unless I click repair, or disconnect then connect. It's a fairly new…
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which PDA?
I am looking for one around the £150-200 mark, ideally to have wi-fi, and windows mobile Any suggestions?
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phishing quick q
you know when you get these spam emails advertising viagra, paypal etcetc...it made me think today (as i just delete everything like that without reading it, i know!)..i got 4 identical spam emails from ebay, from an ebay member, so i had a look (no attachment and i stopped before it went to the fake site), and it was…
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amv converter tool wanted
Hi there, I bought a little mp4 player on holidays which plays mp3 and also video in amv format. I have downloaded an amv format converter and it convets the video files ok to the amv format which then play fine in the player. Only problem is the mp3 utilities 3.68 that I have got, has a virus (a trojan) cant really get…
