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Help Please - setting up Puppy Cam
Hi, I'm not very techie and would appreciate any advice regarding setting up a 'Puppy Cam' at home! We are about to pick up our new Puppy - for the first month he will be accompanied by at least one of the family all day, every day. But when he is 4 months old he will spend up to 2 hrs in his outdoor run/kennel. For peace…
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Best/Cheapest place for a HDMI cable on high st..
Looking for a HDMI cable to link my sony d3000 and dvd recorder up to, dont really want to wait to get on offg the net for the sake of a pound or 2, can anyone reccomend anywhere with them on offer or cheap?
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Microgaming Malware
Hi All Over the last couple of days my computer has become very slow. I ran an Ad Ware scan and it showed up microgaming regkey. I seem to have got rid of it now but has anyone come across this. I was wondering what kind of sites I would have got this from. Kids have been on the computer alot recently and wondered if it is…
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Fuji Film Carmeras and xd cards
Hey, Does anyone know if the new M and H xd cards are compatible with older fuji models. I have a fujifilm 450 and want to upgrade the xd memory card to 1 or 2 gb but don't know if they are compatible. I've looked online but can't find a clear answer. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers. ell
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Mailto key Missing in registry
I'm trying to fix a problem on my boss's computer. When she clicks on a email hyperlink in Outlook express she gets 60 email browsers opening up and freezing. I have tried the windows explorer folder options fix but the mailto protocol is not there! It's not even in the registry under…
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PC Security Check for Online Banking
Does anyone know a reliable service that will check your PC at home to ensure that it is safe for online banking and to recommend ways of keeping it safe? This would include advice on the best antivirus/antispyware, security updates, encryption, secure email, secure browser settings, user account passwords, etc. PC world…
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Ad-Aware 2007 shuts down my pc??
I've just installed ad-aware 2007 and everytime i run it it goes about 3 minutes if that into a scan then shuts down the pc and it reboots. anyone have any ideas? should i just uninstall and try again? i downloaded it from the link in the malware thread. thanks
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Computer health check
I have some niggly problems with my computer (one of them being sonic update manager) and I have run various free health checks which generally find 100's and even 1000's of errors with my computer. They alway end up by saying if you want to repair these errors you need to BUY our package !!! I dont actually mind paying…
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a bsod .. "hardware malfunction"
never had this before .. just happened on a fairly new toshiba laptop with xp. turned on .. blue screen with white writing ... hardware malfunction. call your hardware vendor for support ***the system has halted **** after a minute just turned machine off .. and back on again and it started as normal . Anyone advise what's…
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Ethernet connection problems (Virgin Media)
Hi there all, just wondered if anyone could help re me connecting to the net with an ethernet cable. The story is I reformatted my computer with relatively little problems. However, when I went to connect to the net, I could only connect via a usb lead & not ethernet (I need the ethernet for my router). I contacted Virgin…
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skybox freezing
I have a old -ish Amstrad digital skybox which is fine except it freezes on just one channel, fizz, one of the pop channels. The channel is cr*p anyway but why just this one channel? Many thanks.
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Is McAfee the most annoying program ever? Help Needed
I have just taken delivery of a new Dell Vostro Laptop which has come installed with McAfee. I have set up the wireless network and the email account with no problems except this. McAfee seems to have taken a dislike to binternet.com email adresses and blocks them from sending and tells me there is something wrong with the…
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PHILIPS MT1900 Computer -any good?
PHILIPS MT1900 I've been offered this computer for £349 (without a monitor) - new and from a well known store. It seems ok 2 me but my knowledge of computers is limited. Is it worth the money please or are there better deals? I've tried to do a link to the computer below. Sorry if it doesn't work.…
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Keeping email address
Hi wonder if anyone can help - I have a current dial-up internet account with Orange and thinking of changing to Broadband - but if I get Broadband with a different service provider other than Orange does that mean I won't be able to keep my old orange email address even if I continue to access it via the Orange webpage?…
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mac os x leopard based on previous updates
Hi, I'll apologise in advance for how ridiculous this question might sound. I'm knowledgable when it comes to computers but 95% of my knowledge is in Windows systems. Anyway - I'm upgrading and I've decided to buy a mac because a friend has one and I love the interface, etc, plus it looks great. I've given myself months…
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http://192.168.1.1/ linksys looks different
i have tried to get into the router settings this way and its nothing like what it says it should be like on the linksys site here http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3968&p_sid=6EBjFoKi&p_lva=3967&lid=3980637401B04# Mine mine has no buttons to click on and no headings just blue…
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Cannot access Hotmail
Has anyone got any tips on how to get around this little problem? Am using windows xp home but when I log onto hotmail and put in my username and password, click enter and the next page displays 'Internet explorer cannot display the webpage.' Have been tinkering with things to speed up my computer so may have 'tinkered'…
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google web accelerator
Is it worth installing google web accelerator? It suppose to speed up your web browsing although I dont think I notice any difference
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Netcraft Toolbar
Hi I got this off click/bbc/webscape wondered if anyone else had tried it and is it any good/bad...thanks http://toolbar.netcraft.com/ I have it on both IE7 and firefox 2.0
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unable to install avg on vista
monday uninstalled norton security that came free with laptop and installed avg all worked ok ( or i thought it had) today logged on and avg not working and windows not able to find a solution although its telling me that norton is still working in my security centre and symantec live up date still in my add/remove program…
