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Which lap top for my son who's off to Uni
Hi I would welcome any advise on what sort of lap top to buy and where to buy it for my 18 year old son who is off to uni to study business. He has a budget of between £500 - £750; wants a good enough bit of kit to hopefully last his 4 year course and doesn't want to waste his money on a poor purchase. Any info greatly…
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using cross-over cable to transfer files
Hi All, I trying to transfer a lot of files from an old windows xp machine to a new xp machine. I've read that i need to use a cat 5 cross-over cable which i have just bought. The thing is that there is a lot of conflicking info on the web about the next stages eg setting up ip addresses and masks!! The folks on this forum…
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Pop Ups Help Please....
Hi All, Can anyone help me whenever I log onto my Internet from my Home PC I constantly get Pop-Ups for various websites, no actual specific one in question but various ones, I have Sybet & AVG on my machine but don't know how to get rid off these constant pop-ups so annoying whenever I try to do something my Internet…
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Creating a link
Could some PC literate person please tell me how to provide a link to another post or site? I mean when they have a blue underlined 'here' in the post. Hope that makes sense - not quite sure how to explain it!!:p Thanks very much:beer: SparkyG
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removing passwords etc?
I have a laptop to return under warranty. I am a bit concerned about the stored passwords on the laptop, what's the best way to remove them before I return the laptop?
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iPod Nano Help
We've just bought a new computer, and we tried to install iTunes but when we tried to go onto the iTunes a message came up that said 'the file iTunes Library.itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes' does anybody know why this is? thanks :)
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online video images abnormal on new Inspiron
Dell replaced my Inspiron about a month ago. Only today (stupid of me I know) I tried to play BBC news video and a football clip in both WMP and RM. The audio is fine. The videos play in pink, green and blue instead of the correct colours. They look "psychedelic". What can cause this and is there anything I can do to…
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Brother printer
Not sure if this the correct place. Can someone please PM the code for getting the free label maker as I've just bought a Brother printer.
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some websites just won't open
Hi, can anyone help? My machine seems to be suffering from not wanting to open sites.This is driving me mad as one of the sites it is not opening is my bank site- just keeps saying I am connecting. Every other bank sites i can access but not the halifax. I am hoping there might be an easy way to fix this,…
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MP3 CD Transcoding from iTunes
I’ve just got a new CD player for the car which will also play mp3 CDs, only problem is that I use iTunes to store all my music (have a 20GB 3G ipod) and a lot of my music is encoded as aac (or whatever itunes uses). Whenever I try to burn an mp3 CD, I get a warning that lots of my files are not in a suitable format. Is…
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Copying photos with original properties information
I'm stuck with how to copy my digital photos from my camera SD card. I really want backups onto CD (or DVD) but although I can copy the image using windows, I don't seem to be able to transfer the time and when the original picture was taken. I can get the camera to mark the date on the photo when they're taken, but this…
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Looking for recommendation Internet Access for laptop/phone
Hi all At present we have a home pc and a lap top for which we have wireless broadband in the house. My husband is goign to be going on a course in September in England (we live in Scotland) and will be away from home for the entire month - he is taking the laptop and more than likely will be staying in a B&B that doesnt…
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Tom Tom Updates
Anyone know where I can download FREE speed camera updates for Tom Tom Go?
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BT Yahoo launcher
Can anyone give instructions to a complete computer virgin how to get rid of this thing. A friend is asking me and I have done it but can't remember how I did. As it's over the phone I will need to be crystal clear. He has tried add/remove prog. without success. Thanks
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NERO - Doesn't recognise my recorder
Hi I had to reinstall nero as I had to restore my laptop due to a virus. It now isn't recognising my recording device. I can remember that I had this problem when I first installed the software, but can't remember what I did to resolve it! Can anyone help????? Thanks
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User friendly Freeview box
Can onyone suggest a user friendly freeview box which an 86 year old lady could use and understand. Something that has reasonable sized buttons on the remote and a program list that is not to fidderly to access. There are a lot of elderly people out there who miss out on this because these boxes are to complicated for them…
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hand held interview style microphone for dv camera
im working with kids, making mini movies and news programs etc... can anyone recommend a cheap interview style microphone that'll plug into a mini jack on my dv camera and will work for our roving reporters! i dont have a clue where to start so any advice would be great!
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Help Please with Laptop purchase
Hi Please could somebody offer their advice. I am purchasing a laptop for a friend in Turkey and have found 2 which i think are ok, but am laptop novice. These are the 2 choices Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro V3505 Intel Core Duo T2250 60GB 1GB Ram and comes with Windows XP all for £367 OR Acer Aspire 5613AWLMI + free Philips…
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Connection Problems
I have windows xp which I purchased last october but I have had problems ever since with it. I am on aol and everytime I speak to them they just tell me stuff which I have already tried and know it is not going to work. Basically it takes about 30 mins to get onto the internet from time of turning pc on and whenever the…
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help with strange title bars! please?
:confused: never had this before! I am getting 'sort of pop ups' but just the top title bar Have run macafee super antispyware and spybot but no joy in getting rid I have also had probs with explorer crashing and after its done that a few times pc then crashes:mad: dont know if its all conected I run xp thanx for any help1…
