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Archives for June 2007
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Google toolbar problems
Hi, I appear to be having problems with the Google toolbar search facility in Firefox. For e.g. I used to be able to type in the product name of something and the first few hits on the page would give the cheapest prices and places I could buy from. Well it still does this but is now giving me prices in Dollars instead of…
Cnat get router working on Virgin Media
Ive just had virgin media cable broad band installed. It works fine when I have the modem connected directly to the PC, but when I plug it into the wireless router (Netgear WGR614) I cant get the ISP to release an IP address to it. Ive tried spoofing the MAC address of the laptop I used to set up the connection, and Ive…
DVD-RAM to DVD-R
Any recommendations for transferring DVD-RAM to DVD-R including authoring with menu and chapters. Anyone used Tmpgemc or any other cheaper alternatives ?
Slow pc
I have an AMD Athlon XP2700+ 2.16Ghz running XP SP2 It had 512mb RAM but was only registering 380 I added another 512 but its only registering 896Mb Someone suggested that it had something to do with the graphics card and memory allocation Defrag was well overdue but was excruciatingly slow I also ran ccleaner Its still…
Hosting Business website
Hi, I'm looking for hosting for my business website. I need 50gb bandwidth at least (maybe more) per month, good load times, 99.9% at least uptime, a couple of mysql databases, shared security certificate, email addresses and the usual. Bandwidth is the most important thing as I am paying a fortune at the minute by going…
HijackThis log
Morning all Can someone please have a look at this log and tell me how to speed up my computer? Cheers Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 07:36:37, on 01/06/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe…
Sky freeview
what is the differance between sky freeview and a normal freeview box. I know the normal freeview is via the aerial and sky is not, are there more channels from sky? Is it worth the £150?
Why has this stopped ?
For what seems like years, I've been receiving Martins newsletter. A few weeks ago, I changed my system from '98 to XP. Since then the newsletters have ceased. I've tried unsubscribing and subscribing to no avail. Actually what happens is that the system says an email has been sent to me for verification but that dosen't…
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