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New laptop ram question
Hi my daughter went to PC World yesterday and this PC http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/859051 was on offer for £399 and she bought it. I told her the ram was a little low at 512 and they told her they would double it to 1024 for £45 so she went for that. It comes with the new Windows Vista Home basic. They also…
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Accessing files on old pc without a monitor...
OK, so I've just bought a shiny new Dell and given it to the kids (goodness knows why cos it's about 10 times superior to the machine I use :rolleyes:). Is there any way (in words of one syllable please!) I can hook up their old pc to mine to access the files on it and use it as an external hard drive to backup some stuff?…
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bottom loading bar disappeared in IE
for some reason, the bottom bar on an internet page has disappeared, so the bottom is now the scrolling left to right bar, and the bar that used to show loading progress has vanished! any ideas how to get it back?
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IPOD NANO installation - help
Hi Bought one of these, I tunes didn't seem to load after a couple of hours of downloading. All I get on the ipod is do not disconnect and does nothing else. On windows XP, I'm trying to downlaod i tunes again and havedownlaoded portable winamp, but can't do anything with the ipod to try it. Any advice very much…
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Decent Budget DVD Recorder
Hi, I am looking for a cheap dvd recorder to archive recordings from my pvr and to transfer my old vhs tapes to dvd. Does anyone know of a decent model for a very cheap price? Thanks. TK :D
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Motherboard Upgrade Advice
Can anyone out there advise me. I have a computer that is now slow campared to the PC's of today (7 years old). It has a Pentium 4 in it. Can anyone recommend an upgrade solution for a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I am looking for an economical way so any advise of how and where to get items would be greatly appreciated.
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Tiscali lost sent emails
Can't find this anywhere else on this forum (except for a response I made to someone else earlier today). For Tiscali users, please be aware that any emails you have sent for the past week or so may not have been received. Your Outlook will say that the mail was sent but this will probably NOT have been received. Tiscali…
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Dell optiplex not booting
My friend has a dell optiplex 240 but on boot up it says insert bootable device, press f1 to retry or f2 to setup. In setup the system cannot see hard drive, cd drive or floppy drive, is the motherboard gone??
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Will They Repair My 5G iPod???
Hey folks, your help is needed. I bought an iPod through the Apple site, (it was a 20GB 5th Generation one, so it would be about 2.5 / 3 years ago now I think) and it has conked out, i.e, stopped working completely. I've tried and tried and tried again to fix it myself, but none of the troubleshooting on the Apple website…
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Grrr IE7 automatically opens ALL zip files!
Hi, I'd really be grateful if someone could advise me of how to disable this. IE7 opens any zip file which I click on from the internet automatically, without any prompt. Now this is fine if it's a small file, but if it's a large one and I forget, then I have to stop the open and it's just generally a pain as sometimes you…
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Sky + Box Newest / Best available
Ordered sky + box which is getting fitted on sunday, tried to get one of the free boxes that were getting handed out to returning customers but as a new customer they were having none of it but got them down to £99 with free installation and half -price subscription for a few months - anyway when i enquired the sales…
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Memory
Hi guys I am slowly running out of memory on my pc. How easy is it to install myself? How do I know what type of memory I need? Thanks in advance
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How can I make my tesco bought internet phone skype
I got a lovely internet cordless phone from Tesco and thought I could use it with skype but cannot figure out how to. It seems to be tesco only. Surely this is just software? Any ideas?Much appreciated.(Have asked Skype, they don't know):confused: Lots of pals use skype not tescos service
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Urgent: Need free UK SIP landline calls to replace babble.net
Hello, I would be grateful if someone could help with suggesting a good reliable company that offers free calls to UK landlines. I used to use babble which offered 30 minutes a day, and this was fine for my needs (I just want to use it to divert incoming calls on one phone line via my Linksys SPA-3102 ATA to my other phone…
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Vista and free anti-virus softwares
My current pc has xp home installed along with Zonealarm, AVG, Adaware, Spybot, Spyguard and Spyblaster which works in perfect harmony :-) If i bought a computer with vista basic installed would the above anti-virus etc software work or will there be some conflict?
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what new printer ? please.
Hi Guys I amk now about to get a new printer.I need it for my business and will print about a dozen letters a day.I only require black and white and guess laser is best ? Can you please suggest a model and the cheapest toners for the replacement. many thanks T.
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How to convert
Ive downloaded a music file (Windows Media(TM) Audio Track) how do i convert this file into an mp3 so i can put it on my phone thanks in advance
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Philips Dtr210 Freeview
We have just bought a Philips DTR210 twin tuner freeview box. When watching channels through the box the colour seems darker, more red, than watching the same programme on ordinary TV. Is there any way of altering the colour on the freeview box? If we can't tone it down we don't want to keep the box.
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Help completely removing all traces of McAfee including subscription information
Hello, I purchased McAfee Internet Security 2007 from eBuyer which arrived on (I think) sometime around 01 May (or maybe a few days before). I installed it on 05 May and things were fine. Now at this point I should add that I had previously had the old version of McAfee, and I tried McAfee Total Protection 2007 for a while…
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Buying a Laptop: XP or VISTA?
Hi all @ MSE I'm buying a laptop and i'm just wondering what OS to opt for? The laptop will be used for my business so it will be a number cruncher etc. Any ideas?
