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Digital TV, Sky, DVD rec - it's all so confusing to setup! - HELP
Hi We recently bought a Toshiba 32WLT66 and had it working with Sky and a DVD recorder. We've now moved house and can get digital TV too (and it's integrated in the TV), but want to keep Sky, and cannot get Sky to work without it making everything malfunction. Could someone help me by explaining how it whould all be…
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Broadband Speeds
Hi, When I do an availability check for Broadband they say my line can support 2Mb/s. I am 2km from the exchange. Is this figure obtained from the distance to the exchange or is it because this is the stable speed i am on at the moment. Does the 2MB/s and 2km sound right to everyone? I did a check for my Dads house which…
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HELP! E-mail disappears when opening!
Can anyone advise please.....when I click on my e-mail icon, instead of opening it disappears way off to the right of the screen (somewhere into a black hole that is not accessible). This has only happened since I watched a video cd, so I assume some setting has changed, but I don't know how to retrieve my e-mail.…
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Quiet laser printers: Advice wanted
I already posted this on the "I wanna buy-it or do-it" board, but now realise that HERE would have been the better place to post. I'm "interested" in a new laser printer for the office. (One of the inkjets died today.) A3 would be nice, but not at THOSE prices. Prime concerns are: 1. Noise Another of our offices has had an…
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Urgent advice on this laptop pls
Hi I'm currently in North America and need to buy a laptop today, as I need it for tomorrow. I'm considering buying this one, a Compaq N610, although its a used laptop from a store in town with a 90 day warranty. He's charging me £350. Just want to make sure this seems reasonable and that it'll be okay for the UK (once I…
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sansa e270
Hi there.....I need some help from one you techhies out there. I have just bought a sansa e270 mp3 player...this is a replacement cos the 1st one occassionaly crashed on me. I hooked it up to my comp and added the firmware upgrade....bad move it would seem cos the player , after the up grade refuses to load. I am greeted…
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HELP PC v Broadband crash
Please can anyone help, my PC works fine until I connect the modem cable then it immediately crashes before I get a chance to do anything also if I try to boot up with the cable connected the PC just hangs. Now the same internet connection works fine with our laptop so presumably the fault is with the PC. Ive run Vcleaner…
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Wireless internet in cafes/hotels
Hi I notice a lot of people now are able to just bring their own laptop into a hotel lobby or certain cafes and use the internet wirelessly. Can someone tell me how prevelant these locations where this is possible to do are and also very approximately how much does the internet package cost to access the internet this way?…
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Gaming Laptop Budget £1000
Hi, Looking to get my daughter a laptop - she plays several games which I'd like her laptop to deal with quite easily - mostly the Sims with lots of expansion packs, Farenheit/Shadow of Memories (I think!!!) and a couple of others. I've been looking specifically at gaming notebooks on Dell or Alien because I thought that…
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Another IE / Wireless issue
I'm sat downstairs and am surfing the net wirelessly. Daughter is sat in another room and unable to get any websites up, they are all unabailable:confused: But she is connected to the same wireless router as me, as has a better signal strength as well. We have rebooted, pop her card out, re-connected to the router. I have…
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Slow Laptop...help for numpty please!!!
Hi There - this is my first post on this site as usually lurk so please be gently LOL! ;) My laptop is running slower than usual and when I checked task manager there seem to be 37 processes running - is this normal? If not can any of you lovely peeps suggest what to do - please bear in mind though that I am a complete…
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Upgraded AVG now no pictures!!!
Hi I have upgraded to AVG 7.5 but now I cannot view pictures on sites. Also, I have downloaded some smilies from various sources, but when I upload them to ImageShack then they won't post - all I get is the URL address but no pic. I have now tried a funny pictures site but although I get the selected picture page, the…
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Opinions on this laptop
Hey everyone I'm hunting for a new laptop and am considering getting this one http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=IB2311 as I'm on holiday in Canada at the moment. It works out about £140 which is roughly what I want to spend. Just wondering what those of you more experienced than me thought of this,…
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Best LCD for Standard Definition
I'm quite keen to buy a new set as my old one is frankly far too big for my living room. (Bought it in an older house). I'd like to get a 32" LCD and am looking at the Toshiba 32WLT66 which can be got for around £600. My question is that, since I'm going to have to wait a while before I can afford Sky HD, can anyone who…
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My PC keeps being Hijacked!
Hi, I am on Blueyonder wireless broadband for the last few years no probs at all. The last 2 days my pc has been hijacked and cannot understand why. I am running AVG and Adaware and Windows defender. Anybody any ideas as to why this is happening.Whn running scans nothing detected. I dont understand enough to check what i…
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Packard Bell Laptop - any good?
Sorry for repeating myself, but I've put this question in other places and it seems to have been the wrong place - hope this is the right one! Have been looking for a laptop and found a Packard Bell at Curry's. I hate Curry's with a passion, but if this is a good deal I'm willing to lower myself to deal with them, lol.…
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I'm Techie clueless. Help!!
Hi everyone I'm new and also pretty bad when it comes to PC knowhow so hoping some of you guys can help me out. Basically all I want to do is transfer all my files (1.9 GB in total) and my itunes unto another newer laptop. What is the easiest way to do this. My old laptop has a CDRom (I think thats what its called anyway!)…
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Err/sys Mailbox locked by another server?
Can anybody help me out on this one please? All of a sudden I keep getting this error ERR/SYS-Mailbox locked by another server. Sometimes I can access my mail and other times I can't. This only happens on my desktop i.e. not on the laptop so it's obviously something to do with that (maybe?) My server is Tiscali and I use…
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Laptop Value
Hi Folks, I'm looking to raise some funds by selling my old laptop, I know of someone who is looking for one but I really don't know how much to sell it for!! The spec is as follows: 256Mb RAM 20Gb HD 133Mhz 14.1" screen DVD-ROM Windows XP Battery doesn't work Cosmetically it looks a bit tired Fn key is loose I'm watching…
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Computer Help
Hi guys, at dinner time today, i was sat on the pc as usual and someone sent me a link. Eversince my internets been f***d up :( . Does anyone know what i can do, ive used avg free virus thingy and thats doesnt work, also used system restore, ive deleted all the music on my pc which ive downloaded and it still doesnt bloody…
