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Watching TV on PC
Hi all. I'm being very adventurous this am. I've connected a remote kit - a usb connected boxy thing with red light and remote control for computer. I've even managed to put in an analogue aerial as I wasn't getting reception! Now I can watch ITV. However I would like to watch freeview as well. I haven't a clue however…
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Slow Start up - after new version of Norton
Hi Guys Hope you can help my mum. Her Pc has got so slow since she upgraded to the new version of Norton Anti Virus. She had to upgrade as she took out the new subscribtion. THere was lots of problems doing online so in the end someone had to come out and install it. It takes about 2 - 4min to start up and you cannot doing…
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I am receiving lots of "delivery failiure" messages
Hi It looks like someone is using my email address to send emails which then are not getting delivered so I get the failure reports. I have a domain like @myname, and anything before the @ comes through to me. Can I stop someone sending emails which appear to come from something@myname ? Thanks
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McAfee security
Hi anyone tried the Natwest free 1 year McAfee virus scan plus and is it really free.
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network
my network connection keeps going off then saying someone else close by is using network connection and everytime they come on it turns me off someone said if i got decent anti virus protection it wouldnt happen i use agv at the moment what do you all think is he trying to sell me somethink i dont need or what
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Printer recomendation?
Can anyone recomend a good colour/black,white printer in the £50 to £70 area. Current one (HP photosmar 7260) keeps on paper jamming and generally messing about. My wife is a teacher who is usually very calm and collected but fighting with the printer after a hard days work realy stresses her out (understandably). All…
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Download accelerator compatible with Firefox?
Anybody know of any good ones?
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Firefox v. I.E.7
I recently installed Firefox browser. On https://www.speedtest.net I got the following results: Ffox = d/l 5785 u/l 367 latency 75 - IE7 = d/l 4213 u/l 370 latency 123 Is firefox really giving me quicker downloads than IE7. Also is it safe to use for internet banking etc?
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Moving files between two laptop wirelessly
How do you go about it? We both have Wifi enabled machines to connect to the net, but how to we move files between them?
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Slow PC - clean up advice please!
Hi guys, We have a decent Dell pc at home but lately something has happened to it to really slow it down and applications are frequently crashing. To try and solve the problem I have so far tried doing the following: - a defrag of the C drive, - Panda online deep scan - no virus, no serious spyware or adware, - adaware to…
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Need to back up everything externally - How is best/quickest please?
We recently bought a new Acer Aspire T180 desktop, but have a couple of errors occurring and have been told by the Acer support desk that we need to do a system recovery to rule out that the problem is a software related one. This of course will mean that we lose everything we have installed on the pc as it will go back to…
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Moving our computer-advice please
I want to move the computer from the living room to our spare bedroom, how easy is it going to be. We are on cable(ntl), we have broadband, tv & phone with cables everywhere. Do we need to have wires going upstairs or can we do wireless. How secure is wireless?. Which is best What else should i be thinking of. Cheers in…
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Big Email Problem Tonight
Hi, I logged onto my email tonight (outlook express) and received approx 3,000 emails mostly they seem to be undeliverable mail, and have been sent back, I think that someone has got hold of my email address and is sending out bulk emails, this has been a small problem for a long time, but I have just deleted them as they…
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super 8 conversion-dvd
ive just looked on the net and its about 100 quid for an hour and a half of film! is there a cheaper way or somewhere that does it cheap?
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Flashgot installed itself?
I clicked on a link on an email from 7dayshop to look at a webcam tonight and next thing I know, something called Flashgot has installed itself and opens an 'about' page. Anybody know what this is? Is it spyware. I think I've disabled it and uninstalled it but am running adaware and AVG anyway just to make sure. Anyone…
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Excel
Can anybody point me in the right direction of a free download for an excel type thingy :o I have a spreadsheet that I need to do that will help me do some numeracy and I do not have Excel on my machine. Google spreadsheets etc are not working for me. I am Windows ME if that helps Thanks
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GPS tomtom vs navman f20
Hi, I thinking of buying a gps. I have narrowed it to Navman F20 AND THE TomTom One V2. Both look to have similiar features apart from tomtom is smaller. But i was wondering how the two compare in use? Which one is better? thanks rockinter
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Dead laptop screen
Screen has been flickering for ages on old laptop, like a very dark shadow passing over it. Has finally gone permenantly dark and I have now bought a new laptop. Can I somehow plug another screen into old laptop to access files on it so I can transfer them to new laptop?
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Big email cant arrive-help please!
Please help! I keep trying to pick up my emails. There seem to be 11 in the list. 10 come through straight away, but the 11th seems to get stuck. I keep getting a timed out error and an error message. Eveytime I try to 'send and receive' the 10 come through again, but the 11th one goes to the end of the list again, so it…
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Napster licence
I have just noticed all my songs bought from Napster are protected, so they don't play on my MP3 player. Does anyone know how to unprotect them? Thanks Nicks
