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Start Up Preferences on PC
Can anyone help me with this problem. I recently acquired a Tom Tom GPS unit and downloaded Tom Tom Home as recommended. This TT Home program now takes over the whole screen as soon as I boot up. There is an option in Preferences to change this on Start Up, but when I did so I received the following message:- "Could not…
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HELP!!!!!!! Zonealarm Pro & Firefox problems
HI all, Can someone please explain what is happening here. With Zonealarm firewall on I am asked to log in every time I ask a application like hotmail to do something...... However if I turn it off then it's fine???????? Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Thanks all Spikey
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Wii controllers from US
I've bought DD2 a Wii for her birthday and understand from the lovely people on here that I am advised to get her a spare controller and nunchuck. The Wii is a UK mdoel from Game and I just wondered if my brother, who lives in US, was to buy her the controller and nunchuck there, would they work? I know that there is a…
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Comodo free?
Can some explain how I find out which one of the downloads I should use? it offers one for 32-bit Setup & for 64 bit Set-ups - how do I know which one to use (I'm guessing 64 bit as my L2 cache is 64 KB -I'm probably way off lol )
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Sky to Virgin Media
I have just transferred from Sky to Virgin.. I had a TV link device with Sky where I could watch SKy channels in a separate room from the sky box. Is there a way of getting this with Virgin without buying another Virgin box and paying an extra £xx per month?? Do I have to buy a wireless digi/AV sender and if so what is the…
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wii and the internet
First of all I am not that technically minded (just in case the questions I ask seem obvious!) :o First some background:- I have a 12 year old son who has a wii installed in his bedroom. We have a family laptop in the living room through which we access the internt via a wired broadband connection via a bt line- chosen…
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HELP! Broadband installed, but my phone doesn't work
I've installed Tesco Broadband onto my new computer and it's all working fine - I'm logged in here to type this message, but the landline telephone that is plugged into the same system is no longer working... there's no ringing tone from here and if I phone the number it says the number is engaged. I'm waiting news about a…
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Alentus - Hosting company in the US - any experience?
From a recent helpful link on Sharepoint from buglawton, this US company cropped up: Altenus: www.alentus.com They offer some great packages we need for our company, Sharepoint etc (much better than the UK hosts offering more limited versions). Does anyone have experience of this company, good (or bad) service,…
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Mobile/PDA not reading my music database.
I walked in to work this morning listening to nothing! I plugged myself in to the headphones and neither of my devices recognised any music. I inserted the memory to the PDA (which runs Win Media Player) - It found the music files but froze when it came to adding them. With my Nokia it just says "no music files found" -…
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need some infor RE hacker
Hi folks My daughter is getting threatened on the pc by some idiot she didnt want to go out with she 13 he 14 kids arghh anyway he keeps saying he going to hack into our pc and do this and that.. We believe he all talk and hasnt a clue what he on about but she a bit frightened now and doenst like going on msn or bebo etc..…
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MSE site very very slow
Is it just me or is the site incredibly slow? Firstly I get the problems on my laptop (about 2 months old) when using Internet Explorer. I can access all other websites with no problems, but for some reason MSE loads so slowly the pages crash, the "thank you" button doesn't work, and the only way to get it to load is to…
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Hotmail Log In Problem
At the moment I cannot log into my hotmail account, only on this laptop, so I presume the problem is here, I hope it is not a virus. I try and log in, and on doing so, it goes so far, and then goes into a cycle of opening the same screen over and over again, a never ending loop. As I said, this does not happen on other…
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DAB radios
How do these radios work ? I live in the middle of hills with no terrestial radio reception apart from one FM station , would a DAB radio work here ?
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Wireless router/broadband? New laptop
Hope someone can help. I have a computer that is connected to modem/router. Supplied through Talk Talk. Have just bought daughter a laptop and we don't know how to go about setting her up on a wireless connection. Our broadband, although not great is free. Is it possible my daughter can have these same benefits on her…
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Sky+ breaking up, can you swap LNB?
Hi, All my Sky channels are breaking up and freezing now so am guessing the LNB is knackered (water etc..). Don't think it is my Sky+ box because I fitted my old Sky box to the same dish in the kitchen (since Sky+ dishes are a quad LNB) and that's breaking up as well? Don't know how quad LNB works since it looks like any…
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Window Media Player - posting links
I have loads of WMP clips emailed to me by friends, and I would like to post some in the MSE Arms but don't know how. I tried copying and pasting the link given on the emails, but as it has dots in the middle to shorten it, it copies those and then I can't open it. I looked at properties but there is nothing there. There…
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Floppy disc...
I have just found an old floppy disc and I recognise it as a lost disc with a lot of my song lyrics on it. I now only have a laptop with cd - no floppy facility at all. How or where could I retreive the lyrics, please??? There may be my best song there so don't want to dump it if at all poss. Thank s...
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Lightweight Laptops
Hi, I'm tired of lugging my Inspiron 1501 around so would like to find a sub 2.5kg laptop. Any of you great experts out there with a recommendation for me? Don't want a sub notebook ie must have DVD drive. Many thanks!!
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PS3 - Can't get online
Hi Guys, was wondering if someone would have some tips for me! I have got a ps3 recently and its great. However i can't get it to work over my wireless network. I'm on aol and have a netgear 834g router. I have a laptop wirelessly connected so I know its working fine. I have tried it with the security settings off and on,…
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DVD Recorder Help
Hi, I bought Acousric DVD Recorder today from Argos. http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5336779/Trail/searchtext%3EACCUSTIC+DVD+RECORDER.htm I have copied a VHS to DVD+R. The website says 3 hours of recording but it only copied 2 hours worth of Video. Any idea why this has happened? and how to record it for 3…
