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Dell
I placed an order through dell on monday morning but havent received a confirmation email or anything, just wondered whether this is normal?Or whether i should ring up and see what is going on
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Help with Philips TV
Have an old (5 years) PhilipsPW6006C which needs some screen adjustment - apart from usual on screen display. Is there a method of entering a service menu via hand set code to make adjustments to CRT ? NB I can do this with a much older Panasonic so wondered if I could do this with Philps! Thanks for any help.
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USB pen drive disables wireless mouse
Bit of a strange question but Here goes, sometimes when I connect my Sony pen drive to my PC, the wireless mouse and keyboard lock up. I have to reboot to get it working. Does anybody have any ideas why this happens?
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Blocking sites - help please?!
Hi I know this is probably one of the most basic questions, but we've just got broadband (living in a very small village!) and now the kids are starting to go on certain sites which I'm not very happy about. Could someone please tell me how to block certain sites, as in particular web addresses? It would be a great help!…
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Orange Broadband VoIP without using their livebox, is it possible?
I recently took the £5 unlimited broadband and VoIP from Orange with my new mobile contract, combined this is working very well cost wise. After a few problems at the start my broadband is now working fine with a Netgear DG834Gv1 router at 8Mbit and feeds a few PCs in the house. I tried the Orange Livebox they supplied but…
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Identifying svchost
I'm always getting 100% cpu use from an svchost.exe process at bootup and sometimes randomly after a while. It's PID 1100 in the screenshot, if anyone has any suggestions what's causing it and if it's legitimate. thanks, ss
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eMachines 410 lan problem.
Son has an eMachines 410 pc and is trying to set up broadband. The onboard lan card is not seen by XP, and the bios has no visible means to enable or disable it. He has also tried to install a pci lan card but this too is not found by XP. Have seen somewhere that some manufacturers restrict what end users can do in the…
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Trojan/Toolbar problem HELP required
i found myself with a trojan last night WIN32:VBSTAT-C[trj] i ran a number of various programs, and I HOPE AND PREY its gone so far tonight (touch wood) no warnings have come on :j :T :j :T however after running spybot a number of times a toolbar problem has come up Smitfraud-C.Toolbar888 has come on spybot everytime i run…
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Forum spam
Does anyone know any good resources for stopping forum spam? I recently set up a finance forum and we're getting a huge amount of crap from Russia. A lot of these are coming from people with emails ending in the .ru domain so I was thinking about black listing that. Any ideas?
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Converting MP3's
My Ipod is gradually filling up and have been considering converting the songs to a lower bit rate to allow me to fit more on the ipod. Obviously a 128 bitrate will be lower quality than a 192, but if I converted it would there be any further loss of quality? - E.g Would a song that's been ripped from a CD at 128 be better…
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Excel file too large
I've copied one sheet from a large workbook using the move/copy option into a new workbook so I can distribute it. I always use this way as it keeps the page setup and print options etc. The file is showing a size of 2.5MB ! (It's a simple 1 page P&L) If however I copy the contents by copying and pasting into a seperate…
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PowerPoint Help - automatically updating stuff from Excel in PowerPoint
I'm hoping someone might be able to help me? I'm going to have about 80 charts and tables that i could copy and paste special into an powerpoint presentation... however everytime the charts and tables are updated in Excel they will need to copied over to the presentation again... there is some way of inserting embedded…
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vista modem
Can anyone tell me how to set vista up,to memorize my speedtouch dial up modem, every thing works fine but when I start computer it keeps asking for me to push the dial up, on my old system with xp it seem to go straight to Internet when computer was turned on.
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Flat Screen turned white??!!
Wonder if anyone can help. My 19" flat screen has turned white and won't change. Tried unplugging and checking connections etc to no avail. It does flash on and off when loading up and then settles on white. It is 1 year (and 17 days old!) therefore out of its Argos warranty. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Should I phone?
Just received a random text message from a 0800 number saying 'Please call GVI on 08004046601' should I phone? Logic is sceaming: If it was important they would phone me.
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Spybot error message window
I have just updated and scanned with spybot and I'm getting a pop up window saying this: There were problems in the include file C:\Program files\Spybot - Search_Destroy\Includes\TrojansC.sbi See 'include errors log' for details I don't know where the include errors log is and can't find anything about it on spybot site.…
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Advice on Dell desktop purchase
I've seen the deals on the dmxdimension website and the offers end today and not sure which one to choose - the E521 or C521. I've given them both the same spec (64x2 4400 processor, 320gb HDD, 2048RAM, 256MB Graphics Card and both have a DVD-RW). The only difference that I can see between these 2 deals is that the E521…
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Help with no sound on laptop needed please
Hi I'm at a friends house and I've just managed to record an old vinyl record onto his laptop using Audacity. I couldn't get any sound at all either during record or playback I've checked all sound settings on control panel are as they should be. Someone one who knew what they were doing had it playing sound a couple of…
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Visual Basic
I hope someone can help. I am trying to create a Customer details form to input details into an excel spreadsheet. I have used Visual Basic before but not for a while and I have completely forgotten how to set it up to work. I have created the form and set up a click button to get the form up in Excel. What I am struggling…
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Installing RAM on an Acer aspire 3680 series
Has anyone done it before? I have opened up the panel on the bottom like it says in the manual but I cant see were the new RAM goes :sad: Maybe the RAM is accessed under the keyboard? I will be really grateful if anyone can let me know how they got on with installing the RAM in this laptop. MBM x
