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whats this then?
Upon start up, my laptop (on XP) gives me this lovely greeting. what is it and how the beggering do I fix it. Everything works fine on the lappy by the way :) Thanks xx
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Replacement remote for DVD player
I brought a cheap dvd player from argos in december somtime for around £20. The dvd player is the BUSH 2041. i am very happy with the player for the cost and it even plays dvd's from other regions so this is an added bonus. But yesterday when i sat down to watch a dvd my remote didnt seem to work so i replaced the batterys…
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annoying prob- search results and msn live search keep popping up-help?
hello everyone! annoying problem-im trying to work on a document and the search results page keeps coming up again and again and again-i currently hav 17 of these pages up. on the lef side of the screen, the live search (msn?) is up. I havent clicked on anything. its very annoying-anyone know how i can get rid of the apart…
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Virgin Net Problems - Computer Connected, But IE isnt.
Hey, My friend is having some problems with her internet connection. I have had a look and I must say, everything seems to be in order. What happens is that she can connect to the internet fine - the computer tells her that she is connected and the connection speed etc etc but then when you open IE, it tells you that you…
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Firewalls for Windows 98
I'm still working on windows 98 at home on Blueyonde (as was). I used to use the free PCGuard from Blueyonder but it doesn't work with '98' anymore! Can anyone tell me of a stll available free firewall I can use please? Thanks GMP
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HELP! Error screen on start up!
Hi! If anyone can help or advise I would be gratefull. When switching on my laptop I get an error screen saying ' RTHDCPL.EXE - Illegal system DLL Relocation. The system DLL user 32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occured because the DLL C:\WINDOWS\System 32\HHCTRL.OCX…
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connecting two PC's to internet?
Hi all Stupid question from a technophobe here. I have finally got a new PC. Got it up and running and broadband connection works. It is in our study. have put the old PC in daughters bedroom. It works fine, but has no internet connection. What do I need to do to connect it to the internet? Is there a piece of equipment…
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Whys the Video not playing
On my new pc. have downloaded a dixv/avi File When I try to play it through ms player or whatever is on here..it just plays the funny Visualisation stuff What havent I installed that i should have to play divx no probs. Vid and sound plugins?
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Recovery on Dell PC
Hi, Have just got my new Dell PC running 32bit Vista and very impressed with it so far. I see there is a Recovery Partition and I was wondering what's the best way to copy it, in the event of a recovery. I have tried to copy and paste to a CD-R, but someone told me the best way forward was to use my Roxio CD Creation…
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repairing a dell pc
From knowledge dell pcs ship with a back up of the windows cd stored somewhere on the harddrive. My dad's is giving him grieve and he wants some help, so I said I'd try. He believes it's a windows problem. Windows XP Home. I know that I should be able to get a fresh install on the computer from the backup - but this is not…
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MS Office/Word- getting an upgrade
I'm looking to buy a new computer fairly soon. I have Microsoft Works Suite 2000 which I am looking to upgrade to one of the more recent applications (for example, MS Office 2007). Would I receive a discount given I already have an existing MS product and how would I go about trading it in? Also, as a student would I…
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>£100 sat nav. user opinions
Hi guys with a birthday coming up, and my crap sense of direction, I thought a sat nav may well be useful. Knowing absolutely nothing about them (tomtom being the only one ive heard of), I need some advice. I've read conflicting information on the net so I wanted the opinions of people who actually have these things. Are…
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Windows wont boot!
My mate's pc wont boot into windows! When you first turn it on, it comes up Detecting Pri Master to abort press F4, it does that right up till it get to the CD drive. I went into the bios but couldn't even find the hard drives being detected :( Has both the hard drives died? We did have some power spikes the other night…
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External hard drive
i'm looking for an external hard drive 40gb at least but would want it not to run on mains powers as i will be taking it about where i may not be able to connect it to mains. Can anyone find any good deals for these under £70?
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Second hand PDA with pre-installed TomTom
I recently bought a second-hand PDA on eBay and when it arrived it hadn't been hard reset so it still had the previous owner's files etc. I'm keen to hard reset the device to have a fresh start, however, there is a copy of TomTom installed on the device and the SD card which came with it. I presume that if I perform a hard…
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Can I keep my same email address
Just wondering if anyone can help, i am in the process of transferring from orange to virgin internet, my email address is a [EMAIL="****@wanadoo.co.uk"]@wanadoo.co.uk[/EMAIL] address, I can access my emails by either logging in the orange homepage or in my outlook ( after I finally managed to configure it!) Anyways will I…
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Configuring Outlook Express
Hi all I would imagine this has been asked before, but I can't find anything here, so here goes. I have an e-mail account with Tiscali.co.uk and my OH has one with fsmail.net. Now, is it possible to configure Outlook to both receive/send e-mails from both of these account depending upon who's logged into the computer? We…
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ccleaner "issue scanner"
ive had my laptop a couple of weeks now, ive been running adaware,spybot and ccleaner in a effort to keep things sweet i noticed ccleaner has the option to scan for issues under the issues button i ran it and its listed alot of issues which i cant seem to copy n paste stuff like..activex /com issue ,unused file…
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RTHDCPL.EXE illegal system DLL relocation = what does this mean???
i have had the following error message come up when i log onto my xp account today?? I dont have a clue what it means at all can anyone help? i have done a scan disc and nothing came up in that. What the hell is a DLL????? i havent a clue how to fix this one!!!!
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Instructions
just bought a laptop.E-SYSTEM,but there is no manual with it.any ideas were i can get one from
