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External hard drives
hi all.. i have a new comptuer. (with vista arrrrgggghhhh) on the old one i had an extra 250g hard drive where i keep all my music. so i put it in an 'integral' box thingie which makes it portable and v handy, mainly cos it wouldnt fit in the new comptuer, and should connect up to my new pc by usb cable.. it did initally…
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MSN Messenger Help!
Ive been coming over to the techie forum for a few days now and you guys are very helpful and know your stuff. Just like to say thanks:beer: Basically my MSN has stopped working. The rest of my internet works fine but for some reason not MSN Messenger. Now im not really bothered about the messenger side of it but i cannot…
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How do you create diagrams
Just need some help creating a diagram for a website, needs to look similiar to a family tree, could anyone help with this. I know there is an application on Office that allows you to do this but can't for the life of me find it. I am using office 2003 :confused: Thanks
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Virus software for a Mac
Hi All Just been reading some posts about the antivirus software for PCs and it clogging up the PCs power. What are the thoughts on antivirus and security software for Macs? Which one to go for? Thanks
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website that analyses your pc
I need more ram for my desktop; some months ago I found a site which will analyse your hard drive and tell you what kind of ram, how much, etc. and how much more you can install lost the url though, can anyone help please?
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TalkTalk BAD broadband connection
My friend is on Talk talk broadband and as lots of trouble getting on to the Internet ie;tried to get on 7.30 am and it only connected at 11.30am this happens most days at different times. If left on standby it disconnects She as been in touch with them they try to sort it out but the following day it happens again.…
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Saving Money on an Apple Mac
Hi All I've decided for better or for worse to swap to an Apple Macbook (or Macbook Pro) instead of buying a new PC and upgrading all of my PC software. I can't seem to work out how to get a bargain/discount price for a Macs and Mac software? Anyone got any advice (other than buy a PC instead)? I'm going to make the…
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Tiscali buy Pipex
Email from Tiscali... "Tiscali and Pipex Communications Plc (“Pipex”) have entered into an agreement for the acquisition of the broadband and voice division (“the Division”) of Pipex by Tiscali UK Holdings Limited (“Tiscali UK”). The Division has in the region of one million active customers, 650,000 voice customers and…
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Staying logged in to MSE
Hi can anyone tell me why if I log in to MSE it logs me out after a few minutes. Its most annoying as I have to log in everytime I want to post. I have 2 machines (1 XP and 1 Vista) and it is the same on both but my work pc always stays logged in. Any help appreciated.
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DELL E520 Major Problems
I've noticed a few other threads regarding DELL E520s - I don't know whether this is a co-incidence or a fault. I've been fobbed off by DELL's excuse for a technical support department as I didn't pay for a 'software support' product. However, to me, this product is faulty... Earlier, I was emailed a route map for an…
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OpenOffice - how to enable controls? IGNORE
SORTED!! Hi all, I downloaded OO and am now working with a document in the Writer. However, when I go to the menu, hardly any of the controls work, they are greyed out - how do I get these working? Any help appreciated! :beer: Linds :D Edit: Sorted this now - just realised it's actually because the document I'm working on…
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Excel slow to open
I use Excel extensively to produce my work reports - these are emailed to me as questionnaires already on Excel and I have to complete them and send them back. However Excel has always been rather slow, and often documents take up to 30 seconds or more to open. This happens on both my lappies. It did when I had Norton and…
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Video conversion software
Hi there, A friend of mine has recently bought a DVD camcorder that records in this format and he would like to be able to do some basic editing in something like Windows Movie Maker or ULead video studio but they dont like the .vob format. Does anyone know of a decent free program that will convert .vob files into mpegs?…
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Help needed with Trojan Horse !!
I've got AVG installed on my PC. It's just done a scan , and told me that it has found a Trojan horse PHP/MPack/B, status - infected, embedded object, and the same as "infected, archive". Anyone got any ideas what I should do, as I'm very worried about this?
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WIRELESS-idiot question sorry!
We have wireless via talktalk,we have D-LINK wireless ADSL2+ ROUTER attatched to main computer and a usb thing to go into laptoquestion is can we buy another of the bit to go in lap top and if so does it have to be same make.Sorry if its a daft question but l am useless at this!!!
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Norton - I didn't believe it
Took the plunge and got rid of Norton yesterday. Startup time has halved. Opening my "special" spreadsheet takes a tenth of the time. Opening outlook a fifth of the time. I hadn't realised how much impact it was actually having. I'm sticking with my free stuff :cool:
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Gadget to watch other region DVDs on a UK player?
Does anyone know if there is a gadget that enables you to watch other region DVDs on a Region 2 player? I have a lot of DVDs purchased in the US and have a standard player here in the UK that I can't watch. Is there such a gadget? Thanks
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Comp keeps rebooting at random?
Help and Support Home|Select a Product| After you install a new hardware device or new software, Windows XP may continuously restart, or you may receive an error message on a blue screen View products that this article applies to. function loadTOCNode()!!}Article ID:322205Last Review:May 7, 2007Revision:5.1 This article…
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Installing Win98
I need to install windows 98 on an old pc (don't have spare copy of XP and it doesn't have drivers available, ubuntu used to be installed but it also doesn't have all drivers I need so no need for anyone to suggest another OS). It used to have 98 installed on it, and I get as far as formatting and then setup but then I get…
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Help with Licence MS-Office key
Hi there, I want to install my old MS-office 97 CDrom but it is asking for the 11 digit licence key. I have lost it and did advertise for help on Gumtree. I received an email with 3 lots of codes to try and one of them worked. I didnt go ahead and install it just yet until some one knows if its safe to do so. Can anyone…
