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Turning windows firewall off
Hi my daughter has bought a new laptop with Vista basic on it and we are using it wirelessly on our home network. It has the firewall enabled but I have a Belkin Modem Router which has a built in firewall, as I remember you should only have one firewall active but can someone tell me is this correct and if so what do I do…
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Wireless not working.
Hi Folks, I've got a KCORP-KLG-575 (Gold series) router. It has been working without any hitches for sometime however the other day it decided to die on me. I've tries to search through threads from the past to sort the problem but I am well and truly lost. I have done the ipconfig/renew, then /release, then /all stuff.…
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Best All-Region DVD Player
Hi everyone, Our trusty Toshiba DVD player has packed up after 4 years (solarised effect halfway through a movie) so we need to get another one. I saw Martin's recommendation for one this week but after reading reviews, it seems a bit too cheap, given we got 4 years out of our old dvd player I don't mind spending another…
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System Restore on Dell e5200
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SatNav on your phone ?
After some help on this site we were all set to buy my brother a satnav for his 50th birthday - then my techie nephew showed his new phone Xda Orbit with satnav on it. My brother has one of these too maybe an older model - and thought it might be as well to buy him the satnav software for his phone or upgrade his phone for…
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Laptop Probs- Can You help
Have a Compaq Laptop- today screen died- goes straight to Black Page- asking to Start windows in safe mode etc- try each one- but just returns to the page agin have tried all f keys to no avail- is this ready 4 bin or can anyone help :confused:
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My PS2 has stopped playing dvd's
My PS2 will still play games but just groans and clicks when I put in a DVD. Does anyone know the cause and how it could be fixed? Thanks
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Dell Dimension E520 - Vista Home Basic - Factory PC Restore Image corrupted
Hi everyone. I had decided after a couple of weeks that i wanted to resit it to the factory restore setting as when I had purchased it. I forgot that this facilty was available under the recovery drive. So went ahead and installed the vista operating system albeit incorrectly and this has corrupted the factory pc restore,…
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Firefox problem
I just updated firefox to 2.0.0.4 and now have a problem when replying to posts on forums (not just MSE). I type normal speed but then I have to wait for the machine to catch up! Takes me several minutes to type something like this. Anyone else had this problem? I checked with IE and its fine, so obviously a firefox issue.…
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BLUE screen on laptop Help please
I have a blue screen with white writing on my PC Technical info: STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF9947528, 0XC0000034,0X00000000, 0X00000000) I have restarted holding down F8 I have tried each of the options but after a few seconds I always get the blue STOP screen again. It is a DELL Inspiron 1300. Is there a CD that I can use to get…
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New laptop with IE7 can I make it IE6?
Hi my daughter has bought a new laptop and it has Vista basic on it and IE7 but we have read about IE7 and do not find it that great to work with. Is it possible to change it to IE6 and how easy would it be ie how do you do it, if its possible, can you simply uninstall and install IE6 or not? Any help appreciated.
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Portable power of portable Hard Drive
I have an external 2.5'' HDD enclosure/media player, that can be powered via USB or 5v Dc. What I'm looking for is a portable rechargeable power supply that can power the HDD 'on the go'. I've seen and tried a USB battery box (powered by 4 AA batteries), but it just doesn't supply enough power (the HDD lights come on, but…
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graphics card advice
hi, wondering if anyone could advise me on changing my nvidea gf 4 ti4200 with 64 mb, would a nvidea 5200 with 128/256mb or a radeon 9550 with 256mb be a big improvement? my computer takes ddr sdram which i presume limits me to this type only. thanks if anyone can give advice.
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How To Stop Inserted CD Automatically Playing in PC
Have PC with W2k and play mp3 files via winamp. Usually I insert a cd for conversion to mp3, via CDX, and file info appears, I CDDB the tracklistings and I convert. But now whenever I insert cd into cdr drive my winamp player is immediately engaged and starts playing the cd, and wiping my previous winamp playlist at the…
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Access Database - problems creating combo/list box
Not sure if any one can help. I know how to create a combo/list box but it's not doing what I want. I'm sure it is something fairly straight forward but I just can't seem to get it. I have a form which is bascially a list of companies and their addresses. Next to the address columns and lots of others I have created a…
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in car dvd players
:D hi, i am looking to buy a twin screen dvd player for the car, that sits on the back of the head rests, any ideas???????:rolleyes:
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freeview problem
Hi I have a le32r88 samsung tv with built in freeview. I have been able to view all the channels until Tuesday when the bbc channels disappeared (Multiplex 1) I am on the blackhill transmitter, which hasnt shown any problems or work due. On Monday i had moved the tv and wall mounted it, including putting the wires in the…
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Beryl for xp?
is their any software that will giv me beryl style effects for windows xp?
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cant set up new laptop and router
hi i just bought this laptop ......Acer laptop featuring Windows Vista Home Premium, Intel Pentium Dual Core processor, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive, DVDRW & 15.4" widescreen display Click here for more images * Enlarge image * Zoom * Processor speed: 1.6 GHz * Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core * Screen size: 15.4 inches *…
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Removing Words From Icons
I read the other day you could remove the words from desktop icons on windows Vista. I have Home Premium Edition and tried what i was told to do but the words remained. Im now thinking that you can only remove them if you have Ultimate editions. Any clues as to this?
