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Dell Screen Brightness... Any help please?
Just got my parents the free Dell that comes with AOL but the screen is much dimmer than my older laptop (although more glossy) and I find it quite uncomfortable to work at. Apart from ensuring display brightness is set to the max in the power options and that brightness is set to max by FN+upper arrow, is there any other…
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Digital Frames : getting the best from them
Digital Frames are very popular at the moment, buy one, stick the card from your camera in and view the pictures. Well yes they will do that. But ... Seems to me the most popular use of them is for relatives to see pictures of the kids etc, but unless you were very careful about 'framing' the subject when taking the…
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Upgrading RAM on HP Pavilion ZV Laptop - help needed
Hi, I want information from people expert on hardwares. I will like to upgrade RAM on HP Pavilion ZV 6000 laptop (It has got XP Home edition, 64 bit processor). My laptop has got 2 - 256 MB module DDR RAM installed on PC2700 in two different slots. I have checked on www.orcalogic.com website regarding upgrade options…
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Epson printers and generic cartridges
Hi. I have recently read that all Epson printers made after February 2007 will not accept generic (and much cheaper) ink cartridges. If this is true then it really defeats the point in buying a cheap epson printer in the first place. Has anyone had any problems? Or ideally found away around this problem. Cheers.
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price of - and +RW DVDs
Hi, just wanting some techie advice please. Recently bought some RW dvds for us and my mum, she has a -recorder and we have a +recorder, we got a pack each of 'Verbatum' as we had been advised that they are a reliable brand, from currys. In the confusion between what was a CD, DVD, -,+, R,and RW, (they all look the same…
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Sky - Existing aerial & extension sockets
Hi All! We're in the process of 'guessing', sorry planning, where the tv should go in the new house & as all the walls are down, it makes sense to put the extension aerial cables to the other rooms. There's a good chance we'll have Sky at some time, once we're settled & never having it before, wondered if I should... Run…
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Anyone know what this is?
Having desktop problems, thought initially to be power supply, replacement proved otherwise, have now got it stable but with side off case, so suspect heat of some form a problem, so ran FanSpeed. Temp: winbound W83627THF 15A £290 = 128 a little high me thinks as it shows a flame at the side of it. What area is this…
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Anti Virus & E mail
My weekly virus check scanned today and brought up 3 threats, I have norton firewall running but my virus is out of date, checked on here and downloaded a free program (begins with an A, sorry can't remember) but then my e mail wouldn't work, kept coming up with an error message. What have a not done or done wrong? Sorry…
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radio streaming
probs with radio streaming reset my pc last week and since then i cant seem to be able to listen to downloaded windows media but this time its 11 could this be anything to do with it:o
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PSP or Nintendo DS for a 6 year old
Can someone please advise which is better for my 6 Yr old girl
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Xbox 360 bundle deals
Does anyone know of the best Xbox 360 (premium) bundles deals (at least 2 games)? Thanks
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Downloading music
Hello I am so glad I found this forum as its been so helpful reading some of the posts that are relevant to me. I want to download music (legally) and I want it to be played in Real Music as thats the one I use. How do I save it so it automatically goes into the Real music programme so far I've saved it in My Music on my…
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can you connect sky to a tv
with in built free view? thanks
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Need wireless set up for PC and laptop..please advise
Need a wireless set up for desktop pc and a laptop. Haven't really got a clue what I need to purchase. Not looking to spend a fortune.
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Which DVD for camcorder?
I've just purchased Canon DC201 camcorder. I need to purchase some blank 8 cm DVD's to record onto. I want them DL so I can record twice as much on one disc but I also need them to be RW so that I can mess around & test it & record over it before actually needing to save anything. But, I can't seem to find 8cm DVD's which…
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Yahoo mail & IE7
I cannot get into my yahoo mail account. I have allowed Active X controls to run but i still get the information bar coming up saying my security will not allow Active X to run on my computer. I'm using IE7, can anyone please advise me on what i can do..................
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help with my pc please
hi all my pc has decided not to be nice any longer :confused: i cannot play any online games i cannot chat in yahoo i cannot even read my yahoo emails i cannot view anything which is video - news, youtube, tried loads of sites it was working fine til yesterday please help! thankyou
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mp3 player help please.
ok i have some tunes on my player and when i try and delete them it says `cannot delete, the drive is copy protected, please remove copy protection` or words to that effect :mad: i get the same msg when i try to put some tunes on it. but when i first put music on it i never got any msg :confused: but now i cant put…
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How are DVD player multi-region hacks discovered?
Since most DVD player manufacturers seem to make it fairly easy to convert their "Region 2 only" players to multi-region (a Mitsui hack is even posted on the Curry's website!) I wonder just how the first person to discover the hack for a particular player actually does it? Is it a leak from the manufacturer's techies? Does…
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Please, need advice!! Samsung LE40M87 for £510
Yesterday placed an order on Amazon website Samsung LE40M87 TV for £510, which has been selling by Wi5 (not directly Amazon). Obviously it was a misprice as everywhere else this model starts from £750. One hour later, after we placed an order, they still had 4 left in stock!! Today recieved email saying that our order been…
