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CD's won't play on PC
Hi, for some reason, my CD's will not play on my PC. I have sound from the speakers but if I insert a CD, nothing happens. Any advice welcomed. ps, I did a search first!
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Uploading Photos
Cab someone please tell me how I can upload photos onto a Money Saving Expert thread?
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Red button during adverts on sky
Very often during adverts you get the red button coming up for more info or competitions etc. Is there a way of accessing these microsites after the programme has finished as (1) they are usually very slow and (2) I don't want to miss the restart of the programme.
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Dell dvd-rw drive
Good Afternoon All It would appear that my dvd rw drive on my dell dimension E521 has died i put a cd or dvd in does not autoplay and when i click on the dvd icon it says please insert a disc , have checked in device manager all ok there and there is power to drive my questions are 1 any other ideas or advice on testing or…
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Freeview Box to TFT Screen?
Hey all, with the upcoming Euro 2008 football tournament, I wouldn't mind watching the matches on a nice quality screen, as opposed to my crappy 15" old old tv (I'm a student!). I recently purchased a really budget (but good) freeview box from argos (some of you may remember this particular deal) and its worked perfectly.…
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Keyboard shortcut
Hi guys Anyone know the keyboard short cut to flick between tabs on the vista browser? I have tried cntrl + page/up down (like in excel) and almost everything else and cant come up with it :( Thanks in advance TT
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Using Picasa.............
Using Picasa, can you make changes to a pic and then save, whilst retaining the original?
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faulty nintendo wii
hi guys! has anyone else had problems with their nintendo wii? the power on light works but there is no image on screen. the problem started spontaneously without changing or moving anything. we've tried all the obvious solutions like unplugging and replugging in all the cables, turning it on and off, checking that the…
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How to use Web Cam
Hi im not a techie so please keep it simple Im wanting to use a web cam to talk to my relatives in spain so i got a cam and thought the best way would be to use the same as them. So i loaded hotmail and messenger but what a pain i need a name for hotmail another for messenger and when id finished it seems to take over my…
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Windows start up
Hello out there. before my computer died i had a small programme that came up after dowloading and when installing the programme it would alert me if a programme was trying to join the start up programm list. anyone know out there what the programme is or do you use a similar tool. thanks for taking the time to look.
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Microwave digital display!
I have a Sharp Microwave/Grill in which the digital [time] display has disappeared! It is out of warrenty...........any help? much appreciated.
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Xbox 360 Accessories
Hi My son is 9 in a couple of weeks and I was looking for ideas on what accessories are available for his xbox. He has the 360 elite and plays on line. His favourite game is Halo 3. Any ideas? Thanks for reading Phil
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Laptop wont load discs
I Bought my son a reconditioned laptop from currys and last night tried to load microsoft word on it, but its wont read/load the disc, we tried several discs even dvd's and cd's but still no joy I went into my computer and its not even showing theres a disc in there, then it wont eject the disc, does anyone have any ideas…
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Monitor settings help please, my screen is blurry
Hi, can someone please tell me what settings my monitor should be on / screen resolution. I have a 19 inch monitor and at 1152 / 864 it's a bit blurry, so I thought increasing it would help to 1280 x 960 but it looks even worse now. Would appreciate any advice or a point in the right direction if it's got nothing to do…
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Printing help please
How do i get a some clip art or a some words or a design of some sort and maybe put it around a picture or photo and print them on the same sheet
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Importing Photos on this forum
Hello everyone. Could you please explain what are the steps to have a photograph inserted in one of our forums. I don't seem to be able to do a "copy and paste" action. Many thanks
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Help needed for technophobe
I am hopeless at anything technical so I got my wireless router installed professionally. All worked well for 6 months when the connection failed. I phoned Virgin help who said the connection was good, must be the router,. I took it back to PC World as it was in guarantee, and fair enough they gave me a new one. I told…
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Generic Dropper.az
Hi Hope someone can help as the above problem is driving me nuts. I have somehow managed to keep getting the above trojan. McAfee Viruscan keeps popping up telling me it has been deleted, but I still keep getting it come back. How can I stop it? I am not very technically minded so any help needs to be with idiot…
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Free channels on SkyBox?
We are moving into a rental property and the landlord has supplied a TV and SkyBox. We thought we'd just have the free channels and not bother paying anything to Sky. However I checked it out today and whilst there are a lot of channels we can see on there, for some reason there is no Channel 4 or Five. Yet there is More4…
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help recording i made too slow
I have recorded an important conversation that i need to retrieve info from on my laptop usin a labtec mictophone this has worked well until this discovery. when i play it back our voices are slowed down and you can hardley tell what we are saying it is playing back on windows media please help anyone
