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New Broadband - security?
I have just moved from dialup to broadband and am confused as to what I should switch on/off to avoid hackers. I am told that my Thomson router has a "powerful firewall" and I also have the standard XP firewall as well as avast AVS. At first I was turning off the router, but I have read on other forums that this is…
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Microphone wont work on Skype
Hi - techies ,I wonder if you could help me on this one microphone just will not work at all on any software - even standard windows recorder do you think it could be the soundcard - or lack of it - how could I tell if there is a soundcard installed or not ? The system is a Dell C521 4 GIG RAM 160 GIG HD vista basic -…
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Quicktime Question
Hi all, I have quicktime 7.1 and I have some software that tell me to go into the advance settings and click enable playback of flash but I cant find this. any help
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laptop slow start-up and errors
i have a acer aspire 5003wlmi which is takeing about 45 mins to get properly going from start up,and also getting "runtime error" popping up at times,dont know what this means.any info on these problems would welcomed.thanks
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Playing music on my PC
Ok its bugging me now. If i play the music on my hard drive i might as well kiss goodbye using my pc for surfing and stuff because it more or less grinds to a halt. Hubby says there's enough memory and theres plenty of room on the hard drive, i remove cookies and do maintenance on it on a daily basis so what could be the…
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extra RAM - silly question
I am about to add an extra 2G of RAM [2 x 1G matched pair] to my "own brand" computer, currently it has 512M 3 slots only, and motherboard specs tell me 3G is max it will take without instability or hang ups My question is basic really, can I simply add the 2G in the 2 empty slots and finish up with roughly 2.5G, or will…
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Camera Software Not Working
I have just bought a new digital camera. I replaced my old one for 2 reasons it had very heavy battery usage and I could not get the soft ware to work on my new PC. The software is Ulead same for both but I thought that it wasn't working because my new Dell PC has Windows Vista for its operating system. I am not very…
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HELP - I need to set up a website.....
....for my sister's son's amateur football team - but I have absolutely no clue how to do so. I've tried reading online blogs and tips but to no avail. :confused: . If I could sum up my internet knowledge in one word it would be clueless! Does anyone have a step by step "idiots" guide of how to set up and design a website…
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Digi cam - which of these two is best?
I'm after a new digi cam and have narrowed down to these two: Panasonic Lumix TZ5 Olympus SP550 UZ The Olympus is half price at boots, so they are very similar price wise. Picture quality is important as is the zoom (the Olympus having an 18x optical). Reading reviews the TZ5 appears to be better, but the 18x zoom does…
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Trip Advisor overlay/popup
Ive been on Trip Advisor looking up a few things about forthcoming holiday and I cant get rid of their overlay/popup thing. Its the one that gives you the best/worst Hotels 2008 etc. My pop-up blocker is on and ive tried taking it off and various other things but still cannot get rid of this problem so it means I dont get…
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Microsoft Office 2007 - Real Deal?
I was looking to update my MS Office, and had seen the academic versions on Ebay at around £60 but a link on Ebay showed the company below as having it available at $45 (around £25) and wondered if it was legit. I'm very wary about offers that seem to good to be true as they usually are.…
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Windows picture and fax viewer
Hi can anyone help me please My Windows picture and fax viewer seems to have [FONT="]disappeared, whenever I transfer pictures from my camera to my pc, I can't view them in the basic way. When I go to the folder, all the pictures are in there however there is no mini previews of them just the files that say jpg When I…
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whats better SD or SDHC
Hi ive bought a camera which takes both SD and SDHC memory cards, but which is better? also i need to buy a new card, im looking at a 4gb one, but where is the best/cheapest place to buy one? can anybody give me a link to a site selling these types of cards please? as you can tell im not good with technology so all…
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Help with cable for graphics card
Picked up a (hopefully) bargain ATI Radeon X1950XT (AGP) graphics card from a well known auction site but it has a cable missing. It is a 6 pin to 2 molex connectors cable and I wonder if any of you knows what this is called and where I could pick it up reasonably cheap. My power supply is a 480W Thermaltake jobby and…
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Windows Installer trying to load
Hello, Forgive me, but i do not normally post on this forum of MSE, and I have done a search but haven't been successful in locating an answer. I have a problem when I try and open various things on my laptaop eg my computer, windows explorer etc that the windows installer box appears and tries to install Microsoft Money.…
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How do I change my user name??
I'm really sorry if this is posted in the wrong place - but I just can't seem to find the answer:- How do I change my mse user name (I really want to change my user name- 'Bargain_hunter77 to something new) Would be grateful for any help............ Apologies if posted in the wrong placeXX
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Clicking icons
Switch computer on, desktop icons appear, but whatever I do next, ie rt single clic and open or double left clic, it takes ages for the screen to come to life. Today when it did, it was ONE INCH square in the top left corner. Maybe that was just a blip though. Can anyone help speed this up please?
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Connection going back to local only
I am using dial up to connect on a Vista pc, probably not the best combination in the world. I asked about the problem earlier when it was also disconnecting me and would not stay stable for 5 minutes. I have had Telefonica out, and they found a problem with the line which has been fixed. The problem has majorly improved…
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Camcorder to PC
How do I transfer the footage from my Mini DV camcorder onto my computer? Thanks :beer:
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what do i do to view a video please
its on a avi file i have downloaded codecs but its still not showing i have sound but no pics thanks snake
