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Installed XP Pro, now prompted eith PRO or HOME at startup
I had a laptop with XP Home on it, and i wanted to reformat and install PRO. So, i kicked off the install of Windows XP, removed all the sectors that had been setup, reformatted the hard disk fully, however its now giving me the option at startup to bootup using either XP Pro or XP Home? Anyone know how to get rid of the…
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Some Help Please
Morning Everyone I work in an office at the moment (which is actually a lovely detached house in a lovely area). However, he wants to rent the house out, which means I have to move out and he's asked me if I'd work from home, which I've no problem with. My questions is this - how do I set up my laptop at home to receive…
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Panasonic TV warranty?John Lewis
Can anybody help on this one. Bought a Panasonic TX28PL10 Tv fom John Lewis, in 2003. Paid £599 ! But it came with a 5 year guarantee. The TV has now develpoed a green tint- and is un watchable. Contact John Lewis, Liverpool (nearest sore-40 miles away). Who first said to me to contact a local engineer and they would…
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let the fun begin - setting up new laptop
after all the fun i had setting up my daughters laptop to my wireless network i am here again.... son has got;- http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=400939 any help step by step setting up please? i tried but kept getting my daughters laptop which she has blocked of course, cannot pick my pc up - is it…
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Need to remove XP
I have been given a PC to repair. it has no discs with it, It has had XP installed, which keeps asking for WGA on bootup my advice was to remove XP and put back the original O/S win 98. I need to remove XP and re-format but for reasons unknown to me (I don't use XP myself) it will not allow me to do so. How do I remove XP…
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Technoworld.com have you bought from them?
Hi have seen a laptop I would like to buy at Technoworld.com, but don't have a clue who they are?!! Does anyone have any experience of this company please? What's their service like? How reliable are they? Thanks in advance :D
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Cursor keeps jumping?!
:wave: My laptop was dropped last week and I had to have a new hard drive put in. When I got the laptop back and from then on, I'm having problems when typing. I'll be right in the middle of tapping away, look up (not that great a touch typer unfortunately) and the cursor at some point will have jumped up the screen…
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Virgin outage
Does anyone know if the service message 'Some users are unable to access personal web pages' means that the whole UK is out....Virgin Cable Broadband that is. Since 6pm yesterday, I just can get nothing from them, and don't really understand the message on their website ( accessed through work). Thanks.
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Gateway Laptops
My sisiter is looking for a laptop and she has come across this model from Tescos for £350 - I have ever only purchased Dell or Toshibas so although I will have my own opinions, I wondered if any one else knows anything about "Gateway" laptops. Thanks in advance Gateway ML6226B 15.4" Laptop Audio FeaturesHigh Defination…
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Looking for some software
Hi all. Have been browsing these boards for a while before eventually registering. I have a question which I hope someone can help me with. I'm looking for software to download or buy that I can collate pictures with and also create templates in the form of an answer sheet. I'm a bit of a novice with regards to this so any…
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sky box
my sky box seems to turn itself onto standby mode all my itself every morning about 3 am, anyone know why?
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Difference between Basic and Premium Vista
Found my answer in another post!
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Aol Arghhhhhh
Need a rant? Anyone else use Aol 9.0 on broadband having probs lately? I have unistalled and reinstalled my software about 6 times now.:eek: Fot the past few weeks my connection has been very hit and miss, software keep crashing etc. When I get to the sign in screen which says existing user, I sign in, it gets to stage…
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Vista Upgrade
Hi all, I wonder if someone can help me, i have bought a new sony laptop that has Vista Home Premium Edition installed, this doesnt contain some of the features i need so i want to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, i have the MSDN edition so would like to upgrade to that one. However sony have not provided any software cds and…
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scanner not recognised
my scanner is not being recognised by my pc at all and i get a usb bios error message - but i connected a external dvd rw to that usb port and it works - does this prove usb bios settings are correct? i also reinstalled software/drivers but same error :confused: . The software is Paper port and scan manager the scanner…
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mozilla causing log - in probs
dont have prob on i /exp but mozilla keeps making me log in -even though ive imported cookies and ticked remember passwords on all my forums settings - but everytime with mozilla i have to log in. I am accessiing them from my google toolbar bookmarks thanks
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Media Centre PC
I want to build myself a pc to sit under the tv in the lounge. I have picked the following components from Ebuyer: Antec Black Fusion V2 MATX MediaCenter Case - Aluminium Front Bezel with 430W PSU OCZ 1GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 System Elite Memory Unbuffered CL5 (5-5-5-15) XTC Heatspreader Lifetime Warranty ABIT Fatal1ty…
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hard drive recorder
Hi all, We are thinking of getting one of these. Is there a particular make to get? Also is it possible to get one to act like a SKY+ box and catalogue programs etc? I am usually up to speed with teckie stuff but with this I dont know where to start!
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TV / DVD channel synchronisation
:mad: Please can some helpful fool give me any advise on synchronising the channels on the TV [model LG 32LCDB2] with the DVD Player/Recorder [Model Philips DVDR3380]... I've read the TV and DVD manuals cover to cover and tried upteen different combinations of cable configuration but to no avail... The TV has built in…
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No formatting here - please help
When I make a post I cannot create a line break. I type it in and it looks ok but when I review and post it goes continuous. When I go to reply and quote somebody elses posting the line breaks are shown as < br / > . I also cannot add a smiley to my post? :-(( It's been alright for years but something has changed.What am I…