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Aldi's Laptop - thoughts please!
Hi: http://www.aldi.co.uk/ Aldi's have laptops again on Thursday and I wonder if anyone can tell me whether this is a good price for what you get. I am having more and more problems with my existing laptop which was about £1500.00 5 years ago. It was really high spec at the time and so is very quick at most of the things…
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Advice please
Not sure how to describe this, but I shall try my best. After being on the net for a few mins, things go a bit strange, the mouse cant click anything, the way I get out of this situation is to bring up the task manager, click on minimise twice and then I can carry on as before. If I am away from the computer for a while…
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Buying a PC
Hi ive been thinking recently about buying a new pc i have got about 800-1000 to spend on the computer the only real requirments i have are that it has to be powerfull, good for gaming and uni work In addition i need a monitor which is large enough to watch tv on Any ideas where i can get a good priced tv from
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Text Alerts
Is there any website where I can set up an email address and they will send a text alert when an email is received to that address?
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Laptop Upgrade Memory
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro SPA40 with small memory - I was wondering if anyone here has ever upgraded the memory of this laptop and if so... what memory do I need and do you have access to the hanbook on how to upgrade - I can't find it anywhere by googling! All efforts much appreciated!
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Website design
I am looking at making a website for my company. I dont want to spend a lot. I could do it myself but it would take me ages as i have little free time. Has anybody used the website templates you can buy. Ive seen some pretty professional one for about $50. Has anybody had any dealings with these templates? Does anybody…
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Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3, English Version Failed why?
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3, English Version keep saying faild to install into windows XP why?. Thanks.
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Office PC Remote Control
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone has a tried and tested free solution to connecting remotely to a computer at the office from a home computer? What is needed is remote control of the office computer from home whilst someone else carries on working on the office computer, ability to transfer files between the 2 machines…
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Netgear WGT624 V2 Corrupt firmware update
Netgear WGT624 V2 Corrupt firmware update After trying to do a update i seem to have ended up with a dead router. I have looked on google and found a Recovery Utility but for some reason i just get get it to work .Any help would be great please keep in simple if poss.
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help needed urgent after vista reinstall
please help! i cant watch video (for example, when i redownloaded live messenger the video didnt play) and also when i view my files as the little thumbnails it takes an age for them to show as a picture! i have all latest codecs and flash player, please please help!
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Please help Ex hard drive broke
About 3 months ago I took advice on here about storage options was advised to get external hard drive. So purchased 80gib external viao hard drive from powerseller on ebay with very good feedback. It arrived after 3 days, plug and play had no trouble, transferred all my photos, music, letters, uni work etc onto it. Turned…
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Im having problems with word
Hiya When i try to type in a word document the hour glass on the pointy thingie keeps showing up which in turn is slowing my typing down and making me miss letters if you see what i mean its driving me mad im unable to put windows disk in as i dont have one...i have also been into settings for the auto save thats set to…
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PC Difficult to Boot Up
Am starting to have trouble booting up my PC When I initially turn it on it occasionally beeps at me after a few seconds.....and the just brings up a bios page? This is getting more frequent....I can tell when it is going to boot up as you can hear a distinct change in speed/pitch of the fan/HDD which does not happen if it…
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Odd software I got with my laptop
A while ago I bought a Samsung R20, and I got a bunch of software pre installed on it, and i'm wondering if I need any of it... Easy speed up manager Samsung MagicDocter Samsung Recovery Solutions II Easy Network Manager 3.0 AV Station Now AV Station (if i uninstall this, the av button on my laptop will become useless, i…
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Clone DVD
About 3 years ago I paid a great deal of money for Clone DVD. I've now got a new PC and wish to install it. My problem is I no longer have the installer I downloaded at the time as I was told my purchase would cover upgrades in the future. I installed the new version which I thought should be ok only to be told I have…
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Ethernet connected External HD enclosure
I would like to buy a HD enclosure that connects via ethernet so I can connect it directly to my router and then I will be able to access it from any PC on my network, I have only ever seen USB enclosures, does anyone know of any reasonably priced ethernet enclosures for sale? Thanks
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Portable Hard Drive
Ive been thinking of getting a portable hard drive to use as a back of my files and also to use for downloading music and games too. Will I be able to launch the music and games to run from the portable hard drive?
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Sky Panasonic Remote Control Code
My mate has a Sky box connected to a Panasonic. Can anyone give instructions on how to get his Sky control to work with the TV as well ^-^ Cheers
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Adobe Acobat
Can anyone please help me? A few weeks ago I upgraded my Adobe Acrobat 7 reader to Adobe Acrobat 8 and immediatley afterwards I had various problems mainly the computer running very slow and hanging. A friend on mine said this was happenning to his computer after the upgrade and apparently was cause by a bug in the Adobe…
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Cant view images in firefox
Hi all For some strange reason i cant view images on any forum,most other sites seem to be ok. Ive been downloading a couple of extensions,but have uninstalled them since. I cant think what ive changed,i have a number of proxies,like tor privoxy,torbutton,trackmenot,foxyproxy and noscript adblock etc but dont think its got…
