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Quick question re networking
We are moving house next week, have wireless network set up here, will it be a case of plug everthing in and surf or will I have to set up again-I ask as the phone number will be changing or will this not make a difference?
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19" Widescreen Monitor - £99
OK, it's b grade, but I figure it's a good price. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=219484&criteria=B%20GRADE&doy=18m11 Zahc
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Introduce tracks into large mp3 file on fly
Hi, i have an 80minute live recording. I want to create track splits into the 80minute recording so i can skip to sections when listening on my ipod Key question: What program (ideally freeware) allows me to create tracks within a large MP3. I have tried Audacity however doesn't let you jump track position as you listen to…
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Where to get sattelite cable for sky box?
My Dad's just upgraded from sky to sky+ and has kindly given us the old sky box, the idea being we'll use it to receive all the free channels as an alternative to freeview, which we can't get where we live. I've checked and I know we can definitely do this. The problem is, we live in new built flats which already have a…
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Nintendo WII
I am trying to purchase a Nintendo WII. I have read somewhere to buy one from Amazon Germany. Could anybody give me some advice as to whether this is straight forward to use in the UK. I presume I would have to change the plug but is there anything else that would need to be converted?
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Reverting to XP when vista is pre installed
If i were to buy a laptop with vista installed on it is it easy to install XP on it if i wasnt happy with vista
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Help - Laptop refuses to recognise new Hard Disk
My daughters Acer laptop HD failed (Hitachi 30Gb 4200rpm) 3 years old. Bought a new one (Hitachi 80Gb 7200rpm), looks identical on the outside i.e size, screws, pins etc. Fitted it in the laptop used the system disk to boot, went into set-up (F2) changed the boot order as per the recovery/rebuild instructions. Set up…
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£300 Laptop with Good Battery
Hi! First post I am a student looking for a relitevely basic laptop priced £300 - £400. It must have a good battery. I would like it to be wi-fi ready and preferably have a built in webcam. The minimun spec I would look for is 1GB RAM, 60GB+ HDD, DVD RW and not have a Celeron/Semperon processor. The Dell Vostro 1000 opt. 2…
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web-based system info
I am after a sysinfo type website that will give me details about the spec on the machine its run on. I am after a computer on freecycle but the donation person is a bit vague about the details on the machine and i am not sure of the full spec and whether its worth traveling on the train too collect. So I need to send them…
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Microphone Problem
Hi, Son has a Dell Inspiron 6400 running Vista, problem is he cant get it to recognise the microphone on his combined headset He has checked all the drivers are up to date. He cant find any mute option on the control panel, even with the recording vol at max no sound is recognised. Headset & Mic work fine on main PC with…
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Cheap external hard drive
Hey all, i am a commom user of this site but its the first time iv used the forums :j anyway....does anyone know were i can get a cheap good external harddrive for around £40-£50. any reccomendations would be greatly appreciated thanks
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Radio on desktop speakers!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr
Hi, My hubby was listening to the football on the PC the other day and since then I have this crappie radio that won't stop coming from the speakers. Asked my husband what he done or how to take it off but he doesn't know how to do it :mad: and it's now been a week that I can't listen to anything else than this radio from…
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Aarrggghhh! I've lost all my music...
... on my laptop and my Creative Zen Micro. This could be due to one of two things (I think!) 1 - I added iTunes onto my laptop a couple of days ago - am getting a Nano for my daughter for Xmas and wondered what the site looked like 2 - I pulled the plug mid sync when adding an audio book last weekend. I remember when I…
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Help! Windows 98 and sky wireless broadband
Dear all computer buffs out there, was wondering if anyone can help? I have an old pc which is running windows 98 which I am donating to some friends who have an IVA (so no money to do anything with it, have been looking in some forums elsewhere and all people have been saying is 'get a new pc' which isn't helpful) It's…
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Office XP disc
My PC went T***s up a couple of months ago and have just paid £30 to get it wiped and it is now back to factory settings. We didn't have any Word, PowerPoint, Excel on when we bought it and a friend of ours put Office XP on it. I have an Office XP disc so if I put this on will it just put all the Office stuff on? I don't…
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IE7 favourites wont work
I can't get the bookmarks to work on my Vista pc that runs IE7
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Can anyone enlighten me please
I have a medion laptop with Windows Xp installed (oem, I think they call it), I needed to do a reinstall(virus ?), which fatally stopped at 49 mins, saying there might be a problem with the disc. I tried another disc and the same thing happened. To get things working again I tried a friend's disc, which was a copy of the…
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Internet Connection
I get my interenet through ADSL connection. For the past few weekend the ADSL light on my modem goes out and loses my internet connection. I've rang BT they did a line check and said there wasn't a fault on the line it must be my ISP to blame. My question is which one is to is at fault BT or my ISP?
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large scale print
does anyone know of a freeware that i can use thet will print an image to a size of 9*9 a4 sheets did have ulead4 which used to do it dut cant open it anymore after service pack 2:beer:
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dell file there when starting pc....help!!
Hi When l start my pc not only do l get my usual desktop icons..l get a DELL FILE stuck in the middle of it all. All lwant is my icons to show. I also asked earlier if anyoe knows how to get rid of sprtcmd.exe which shows up when starting the pc....any clues:confused: ? thanks.. Lizzie
