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Recommend a Universal Remote Control for TV
I recently bought a Samsung 40" TV and would like a better remote control for it. I just want a fairly basic TV remote control, don't really care about controlling Sky or DVD players or whatever. The remote that came with the TV is quite long and slim and the buttons especially for teletext are spread out and small, what I…
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any way to speed up backing up iTunes to external drive
Hi, I back up my iTunes to an external hard drive about once a month. I consolidate the iTunes library and then copy and paste it to my external hard drive and delete the old version from the external hard drive. The whole process takes a couple of hours. Is there any simple way that i can just copy new stuff over to my…
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Help needed in reaching web page
help needed in reach web page Had to reformat my laptop and was able to view this page but now i am unable to view it and get the follow message The page must be viewed over a secure channel The page you are trying to access is secured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Please try the following:* Type https:// at the…
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Is my laptop security and spyware safe
I current have Mcafee security suite and ad aware 2007 free version and crap cleaner, windows defender, do i need to load anything else. Thanks for any advice given
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dvd codes
please does anyone the crack code to unlock a panasonic ht 500 dvd player thank you :beer:
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old pc help
Hi I have an old pc that has Windows 98 installed. I have XP discs from my new pc could they be used to upgrade the old pc from 98 to XP? :j would be good if they could!
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Trojan mrofin572.exe
My neighbours PC is infected wwith this nasty trojan. I have looked on the internet and all the cures sound pretty complicated to me. Does anyone know of any software that will get rid of this Ta Rumpelstiltskin
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Help Me Choose a Sony Vaio
In need of a new laptop and am looking at Sony Vaio's. Would have up to £1,000 to spend as long as I could do it on 0% finance over 9 or 12 months. Not too sure of specs, guess I would be looking for a minimum 15.4" in size, 2GB of RAM and 150GB hard disk. Any ideas?
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Webcam virgin
I'd like to get a webcam so our children can see/speak to their cousins 300 miles away and I could do with some basic advice please. 1) Is it normal to use webcams in conjunction with an instant messaging program? 2) I have never used instant messaging before either, are any such programs better than others, or are they…
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SKY Channel Fault
I was wondering if anyone else is getting problems with the SKY channels. I am on the Pay Once View forever scheme which ended in February. Since then everything is fine until three days ago when I got the following message FOR YOUR INFORMATION THERE IS A TECHNICAL FAULT WITH THIS CHANNEL PLEASE TRY LATER I would be…
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Acer laptop battery: a probelm?
Looking at some laptops and I came across some history of people saying that Acer laptops overheated, eventually leading to the battery failing, no power etc etc is that 'history' still an issue with Acer? :think: Cheers
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Music files disappearing from my laptop, help!
Hope someone can help me. Ive got a bit of an aged laptop, a bit slow running but not had any problems with it so far. Last night I ripped a cd onto the hard drive to put onto my ipod, and it was fine, but today when ive come on, all of the music I had on my hard drive has disappeared, and half of the tracks i ripped…
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VIRGIN broadband on windows 98
i'm trying to connect virgin broadband to a rusty old windows 98 laptop. any ideas how i can connect it up? i've got it all plugged in but don't know how to connect it. :-(
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Splitting an .avi file,help please!
I have a video file [.avi format] and I need part of it for a presentation. I tried HP split/join software which allows splitting based on the file size.........but is it possible to split the file from a particular point to other /For example from min 2.34 to 2.45? Would the split file be in the avi format? Please help
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Flat screen monitor cleaning
My new monitor seems to be accumulating dust like there's no tomorrow. Are there any dos and don'ts regarding cleaning?
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Laptop memory advice please
Hello everyone I have a 5 year old EI System laptop with 256 mb memory. I need more memory for drawing programmes etc. Should I get a 512 memory card or an external hard drive? or another laptop? (the latter is a distant option as I'm a full time student at the moment) All opinions gratefully received- thanks
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How do I sell a website?!
over the last year or two I have taught myself a bit of HTML and SEO, and built a few websites based around affiliate marketing of niche products, using ebay, adsense, clickbank, tradedoubler, amazon etc, but due to other commitments, I want to reduce the number of sites I have. The sites are all taking clicks and earning…
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PC says it's connected to the internet - but it's not!
I've had some wonderful help previously from you clever people, and so I'm hoping that you might be able to point me in the right direction this time too. I know there are sooo many threads with wireless problems, but I can't find a thread with a similar problem to mine. I've tried to help myself by going through…
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How can I resize an ad & add text to a logo?
Hi I'm trying to resize an ad to a specific size and how can I do this? It's saved as a jpg file. I'm also trying to add text to a logo on the same advertisement? Sunni
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Peugeot 106 Radio Code
Hi all, Selling my car tomorrow, put the original radio back in but I need a code? Peugeot are asking for £20!? Is there any other way I can get this done asap for either cheaper of even better free!? Serial Number = CL040110633895 Model No = PU2294A Tried leaving ignition on for an hour+ but this didn't work.. Thanks
