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Blue Flash?
Can someone help please. This happened to a friend of mine. He tripped up over the power cable pulling it out of the socket while the computer was switched on.:eek: On trying to reboot it powers up momentarily, then there is a flash of blue screen (it passes too fast for me to read what it says!) and then just goes back to…
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Incorrect Parameters
Hello everyone, I had a problem with using my scanner and then downloaded th driver for it but now \I have a problem using the driver as it is saying 'incorrect paramters' any idea what this is? Thank you x
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very annoying "enter network password" popup.
can anyone tell me why this popup keeps appearing on my screen? its not my network password but seems to be linked to outlook as until i have clicked "save this password in your password list" and clicked ok it will not send/receive. it has just appeared in the last couple of days and its very annoying as i have my…
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how to access router settings
hiya peeps I know there is a way to access the settings on the router via an IP address and for the life of me i cant fécking remember what it is. Ive got a BT Router i know its something like 192.1.(dont know the rest :rolleyes:) does anyone know how to do it? any advice would be much appreciated :beer: James :)
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Trying to make word automatically enter date
Hello, Hopefully someone will be able to help me because I have a problem with Word and I've got no idea how to fix it. I'm trying to use the function which automatically enters today's date, but it will only bring up "dd/mm/yyyy". It's a relatively new Dell computer and it's Mircrosoft Word 2003. Any help or ideas would…
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Hitachi digital camera - any good?
I have seen a digital camera in this week's Argos mega-deals that i quite fancy. Know NOTHING about digital cameras, but it's half price £179.99 down to £89.99 so seems a good buy. My only concern is that Hitachi are known more for their Tvs and i'm not sure their brand is very well known when it comes to digi cameras.…
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Versatile GPS sat nav for road and hillwalking use ?
Hi all i'm considering getting a sat nav, but i'd like one that I could use in the car (obviously) but also to go out hillwalking with OS landranger maps. anyone any experience of these ? any recommendations? thanks in advance
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Any free dvd writing software anywhere?
A friend of mine has copied some of his home video onto a dvd using his dvd recorder. He now wants to make back-ups of these using his computer. I have always used Nero but he wants to know if there is any free software available for doing this? He said a no-frills program would be fine. Many thanks in advance for any…
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Scanner Not Working...aaargh!
Evening all! I got a scanner from a man on freecycle, he had no instructions but gave me the software disc to install it. I have installed everything on the disc and the scanner works fine, picks up photo on preview etc, but on the test page after i have scanned it is just a black page with a few white dots on! Have I…
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Large Letters
Hi There What I need to do for a church presentation is print a series of letters - but each letter has to fill a sheet of A4 How do I do this I havent got a font big enough and I can't find one? I use OpenOffice and not MS Office if this is any help Thanks in advance
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Computers Crashing
hi just wondering has this happened to anyone else over the last 2 weeks,I have had 2 difference computers crash within a week ,then a friend told me that hers haded just crashed ,ie the screen just went blank and couldnt be turned on,then daugther told me 2 friends out of school computers went same way ,then brother ask…
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Dell order question
[FONT=arial, verdana, helvetica]Q4. Will the product(s) be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, i.e. nuclear applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes?[/FONT] :eek: I said yes:rotfl:
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@live.com, @live.co.uk and @windowslive.com accounts will not BE Deleted
After the javascipt loophole, Microsoft has stated that they will be deleting these account.
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Is this the cheapest NINTENDO DS LITE bundle?
Hiya, Mr SH wants a nintendo DS lite off Santy, so been trawling the net to find cheapest deal. He wants 1 game, and thats Super Mario... found this... http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=344818 Is this the cheapest? Thankyou.:T
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Help!!!!!
Hi all DS has been fiddling with the keyboard on my PC, and has somehow managed to rotate the image on the screen through 90 degrees!!! I know theres an easy way to sort it, but I cant remember how! Please can someone help!? Many Thanks tg x
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Navigating myself to a cheap satnav!
I've finally persuaded my lovely hubby to buy me a satnav cos I'm completely hopeless at getting anywhere with a map and having borrowed my friend's satnav a couple of times I'm in love with it! Can anyone recommend a good one, and reasonably priced - approx £200? Much appreciated. Thanks.
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Laptop start up problems
Please help, I turn my laptop on to see a black screen so i ctrl / alt / del, this brings up a screen "F2 enter system configuration utility " I hit f2 then a screen comes up " configure main conditions ". Any tips please , I,ve tried " get defaults values " and " load previous values "all this brings me back to the black…
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dvd player to work in france?
Hope sbdy can help. My mother lives in France and i would like to buy her a DVD player for xmas but I was wondering if i get one here will it work fine over there? does the pal/secam tv system affect it? i know dvds are region 2 but i don't know about the connection? If sbdy can help i will appreciate. I don't have time to…
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sky digi question
we just got sky installed, my question is do we need to plug in our phone line 24/7 ? if the answer is sometimes what is the best time to do it?
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How to transfer bookmarks from BT yahoo to Firefox
Hi I have just installed firefox but am unable to transfer my favourit bookmarks from bt yahoo broadband. It only seems to give me the option of transferring bookmarks from internet explore, but I dont have any favouriets on that. Can anyone help other wise it looks like I will have to unistall firefox.
