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I'm looking for an good spec slim digital camera
And I'm pretty clueless!!! I'd like a good make and a good spec. It also has to be very slim. Price isn't that important, though it has to be less than £300. Any help would be much appreciated.
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House vibrating from heavy traffic!
Not sure where to post this...I have lived near a busy road for 10 years now but the use of heavy traffic has increased, so much so that certain vehicles are causing the house to shake - especially in the small hours when lorries use the road either fully ladened or traveling too fast. I can actually feel my bed shaking…
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Help with Sata Drive Install
Hi I've run into a problem and I guess I need help. I have a Dell machine and have 2 SATA drives already installed. I purchased a SATA2 drive 500gb and have bought a SATA controller card. I have left jumper on drive as I know I need to as I'm only going to get SATA rather than SATA 2. This is as Seagate suggest. The…
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Arial Font messed up
I installed a font management prog. a couple of weeks ago which messed up my windows fonts. I managed to restore them, except my arial font has a weird problem in that it can't display currency symbols correctly. I particular "£" shows as an up-arrow, and "$" shows up as a squirly symbol. This happens in all programs that…
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Visual basic in excel
I am designing a program in vb excel. Can anybody can help me with some code that will allow me to play mp3s directly in the program? Thanks
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Web hosting + 2 domains for £5 a year
http://netfirms.com/max This seems a cheap offer, especially for 2 domains. Have any of you techie folk seen cheaper, or notice anything awry about this offer? Cheers dan
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Exporting from Outlook Express
Hello is it possible to export from outlook express the following settings: Accounts settings (servers, user names, passwords etc.) Message rules Folders structure Message rules I am looking to export all the above to either another PC with outlook express or use a new email client e.g. thunderbird
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Webcams and dial-up
Can anyone recommend a webcam? I'm looking for two, one for me (UK) and one for family in New Zealand. I have broadband though they only have dial up (they don't do BB in the wilds of Northland) is this going to be a problem? Also, what else do I need to see and chat with them? What's this Skype thing? Is it free? (Who are…
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McAFee Personal Firewall hanging(not responding)
Just installed McAFee Personal Firewall from AOL (free to broadband customers) as I thought Windows firewall is perhaps not good enough. Installation seemed to go ok. Restarted PC , it then asked for access to Java update checker and AOL which I granted. I then clicked on the McAFee icon on bar at bottom so I could go into…
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Not able to run laptop in safe mode.
Hello Hope someone can help me, Our laptop will not run windows a blue box comes up saying stop it canot run windows.It then tells us that there is an error on sptd.sys The driver mistakenly marked a part of its image pagable instead of nonpagable. Its says to delete the file but I am unable to run the laptop in safe mode…
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how do i capture video
I have some old video tapes that I want to get on to my PC as AVI files. what stuff do I need to do this? I have a Pretty fast PC and a video recorder what else do I need and will I be able to get around macrovision?
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Very Slow reaction when trying to print
I have a relatively new laptop (Centrino) with 1GB RAM and yet when I try to print I usually have to wait a good few minutes before I get the print dialogue box to appear. Any ideas as to how I can make this quicker? (FYI I upgraded the memory from 512MB to 1GB for this reason but there was no noticeable difference)…
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MP3 Player - I'm Clueless!
Hello, I would like to buy an MP3 player and my budget is about £50. The thing is I have no idea about size etc. How many songs is 1GB?? Can I get a good MP3 player for my budget, and if so, any recommendations? I would rather not buy an Ipod. Any help would be much appreciated!! Thanks, Sarah:confused:
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Laptop - Number lock on start up
My little boy was playing with my laptop and now every time I start it up, numlock is on. I can turn it off but it now comes on automatically every time I log on. How can I fix this?
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Will bbc/itv set-top box work with sky dish
Does anyone know if, when bbc and itv launch their freesat system, I'll be able to simply buy a box from a high street store and plug it in to an existing sky dish? Will this work? Reason I ask is that I've just moved in to a new house where freeview doesn't work. I'm thinking of subscribing to sky for a year, and then…
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Symantec email scanner suddenly taking forever
I've got a Windows XP system and my ISP is BTYahoo. I use their online protection. I installed a new Canon Pixma printer/scanner yesterday. This morning i can't send even very small attachments (600 KB jpg files) without the Symantec email scanner box jumping up and getting to about 14% of scan and no more. I then get a…
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Hooking up to internet with only a laptop? (Wirelessly)
The missus' parents just got a laptop. They are now getting the internet as they have decided they are not scared of it after all I have configured my own wireless network in my house with a router, but that is also wired into my PC. As they have no desktop PC, they just want to connect wirelessly to the internet with the…
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Website Help
I am trying to sort a new forum out for our football team (Droylsden FC - Conference North Champions!!) and I am a bit confused how it works!! I have been set up as admin on the site along with the guy who created it on https://www.thebloodsforum.co.nr. Now I want to change this site to https://www.bloodsforum.co.uk and I…
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McAFEE, What should I do.
Hi, My free 30 day McAfee which came with Dell laptop runs out tomorrow. I am at a loss as what to do next. Appreciate any help. Thank You.
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Sky subscription becomes freesat after a year?
Hi Can anyone conform for me whether, if I subscribe to Sky for a year, then once that year is up I can keep the system and it will revert to a freesat set-up? Free sat set-up is about £150 so I'm told. But a year's subscription is only £15.00 a month, and through quidco I'd get another £50 cashback. Plus all teh extra…
