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LCD TV. Waste of time?
After many days umming and ahhing I decided to take the plunge and buy an LCD TV. I went for a Panasonic LDM70 as this had good reviews. Anyway, to cut a long story short the picture is not what i expected. It's blocky, smeary and just not what i expected. The picture on my crappy wharfedale tv is better. I bought the TV…
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Ebay Postage
I have several items on EBay and all are marked with postage for UK but i have stated that i will post to other destinations but will have to review the postage. Someone has asked me if i will post to France and how much the postage will be. I have worked out how much it will cost but how do i charge them the extra postage…
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Dell Dimension 5000 - Mouse & Keyboard not responding
I've got hold of a friends PC to fix, unfortunately after he spoke to Dell 'Customer Support'. His initial problem appears to have been fixed (I think) but it's now not responding to mouse or keyboard at the Win XP user select screen, even if I try in safe mode. The PC is ok, I've booted it into Ubuntu and used it ok to…
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Hard drive backup
Hi there I have dilemma, i have an old desktop pc on it are a lot of family pics and video (mp4 files i think) The PC is getting old and i worry it will crash and i will loose all these files. What is the most cost effective way to save them. I figure i have about 30gb of files i want to keep, but unfortunately i am not…
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remove F-Secure
hi all im having problem uninstalling F-Secure 2006 from a mate pc tryed from add/remove and ccleaner uninstaller but it still wouldnt uninstall?:confused: any 1 with a solution
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need to remove all my files
I need to get rid of my old hard drive, but before I do I need to make sure that all files are completely deleted and not be recovored back. Do you know how to do that? I heard that even if i delete the files from recycle bin, the files will still remain on your PC. thanks
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Winzip help
Hi, When I click on "Add" I could only add individual files. Is there anyway I can insert a folder with couple of files? Thanks MS
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Cannot open saved Office documents
Hi Am unable to open any saved office documents on my laptop. I have been able to until the last day or so (well its a few days since I last opened a document and that opened fine and today cant open any). I bought a laptop - acer 7520 last month and it had a 60 trial of microsoft office on it as well as the full version…
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Free Office Software!!!!!
www.openoffice.org Free Office software that, for most of us, is more than comparable to Bill Gates's overpriced nonsense. Up Microsoft!!!!!! Get open office!!!!!! It reads edits and saves all MS Office Docs, so why not get it? Makes you feel so much better.....
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Bt Hub Help Please
I have a bt hub which I use as a second line. I was trying to see if 1571 could be set up a few weeks ago and it has only come to my notice now that I've somehow messed up. If anyone calls the broadband number it immediately goes to answering mode but doesn't ring. If you leave a message it doesn't record! So I don't know…
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What am I doing wrong?
Never done this before. I have downloaded some music to the PC and thought I had transferred them onto a CD. It appears they are on the CD but when you put the CD into a player nothing happens. What have I done wrong?
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Help! My email addy used for spam!
Hi! Not sure what I can do here, but my business email (name@mydomain.co.uk) has been used for sending spam !!!!!!. How I know is I have had a lot of returned email, which fortunately does not end up in my email in box, 'cos I use an anti spam service which blocks anything unrecognised. Is there any way I can stop this…
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Looking for a graphics card - which one?
I know nothing about graphics cards. I need a graphics card for my Xeon workstation, to replace on board mobo graphics. For running some modern/latest games at reasonable framerate. This box runs Windows Server 2003 x64 and usually FreeBSD. Motherboard has 1 PCI and 3 of PCI-E x8 size slots, one full-height at x8 and the…
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Trouble with Wireless Adaptor
Using XP + SP2 plus all Windows latest updates. Have had prior to the updates, a working wireless network, using 'Belkins Wireless G+ USB Adaptor' (model no FSD7051uk, version1115uk). I've reinstalled the installation software after getting no where. The program is now back in 'Program Files' and a shortcut is back on my…
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Help With New Hp Lcd Widescreen Monitor
Can anyone help please? I have bought one of the above from Tesco and I am not getting any sound from the built in speakers. When I plug my original speakers into my PC they don't appear to be working now either. The checked the support guide manual but that is useless and when I try to install the driver from the CD it…
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Laptop button Broke
I got my toshiba laptop from currys over a year ago and the on off button some how has come loose. anyone know a cheap way to fix this?:confused:
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computor keeps restarting itself
Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone can help me!!! A couple of days ago i was getting a blue screen with the following message kernal-data-inpage-error Followed by the following. Technical information. ***stop:0x0000007A (0XC03 DDDEO,0XC000000E,CXF7778130,0X16BF3860) ***Atapi.sys-addressF7778130 BASE AT F7767000,data…
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Memory cards for a Fujifilm s9600 - CF or XD better?
I'm about to buy a fujifilm s9600 in the next do or so once i find the best deal/guarantee etc.. It says they can use Compact Flash or XD cards..is there a better one to look out for? I already have some XD cards off an old camera that still have pics on but i'm not sure if these will work or need to be reformatted? :o
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Help please with new laptop
You kind folks on this board have helped me in the past(thank you very much for the excellent idiot proof advice) Now I need to ask for your help again. My DH has bought me a new laptop a refurbished E system 4115C from Currys. Anyway it took me over 20mins to open it:o and although there was loads of vista stuff no user…
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Freeview box with Hard Drive for Technophobic Sister
Is anyone able to recommend reasonable choices for her? I said I would do the research for her as I am a gadget freak, but would like to hear other peoples' suggestions. I would need not just to be idiot proof, but village idiot proof - a whole other spectrum of idiot ;) Easy to set up and use. The woman didn't even open…
