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how to set up a laptop?
I have just bought a new laptop and need to set it up. AFAIK it has windows vista preloaded and nothing else. Any guide on how to get started? I really just need to get the internet onto it and can then download what I need from there. Is it really that simple? Its a sony viao from costco if tht makes a difference (and…
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silly question,
hello, i've got a silly question, i'm not very techie at all, here goes, when i look through the forum my smillies have suddenly disappeared, all i can see is boxes with red crosses on, but if i reply to a post i can see them, and use them but after i get the boxes again, this has only happened a since a couple of days…
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Is this a good price for this computer?
First of all I thought this was the best place to post it ,sorry if I was wrong. The deal I negotiated only stays open until the end of the day. Is this a good deal? If not where can I get a better deal? Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8500 Dual Core Processor(3.16GHz,6MB Cache,1333MHz) Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service…
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PC Protection
Hi guys, I’m going to have a look at a mates PC, i’m slightly more clued up than him. I’m betting he has no antivirus, firewall or adware/malware protection. Once i download various protections can i run them at the same time or will they clash. It’s just to save time as some of these scans can take forever. Thanks
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Cheapest And Safest places To buy Archos 605 40 GB
i want to buy a Archos 605 40GB and would like to know the cheapest and safest place to buy it from. thanks in advance II D2 II
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Excel Expert needed
I asked this question a while ago on here, but I think I asked the question wrong, so didnt really get the answer I was looking for, so I am trying again :o I run a small business and have set up a 'quoting' spreadsheet and an 'invoicing' spreadsheet. Each sheet has a list of customers as a page in the worksheet, and I…
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mouse pointer jumping about screen ?
Hi hope somebody can help plz The mouse pointer is driving me nuts , it is jumping about the screen sort off flashing and when i place the pointer over an item it jumps even worse I have run scans etc and have no virus's found , iam using AVG 8 and also run the advanced windows care v2 personal , i clean up files etc often…
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PHP Redirection Help
I am trying to pass two variables from a link on a page and have the link visit certain pages / websites depending on the variables. My code is below and is not working correctly. Test2 works fine, and redirects, but Test fails to include the second PHP variable correctly and I don't have enough PHP knowledge to solve the…
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Laptop Broke what now
Hi All, Our laptop stopped working, i was updating some drivers and it crashed now it wont start up, i have tried safe mode and last known good configartion. It still wont load windows. I gave up and thought i would install windows xp again from cd. It appears i cant do this either, i choose the option to boot from cd…
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Decent Laptop for playing online games etc
Hi My son keeps borrowing my laptop for playing pc games and internet games - his birthday is coming up, so time for his own laptop. Just bought him 'Spore' and it recommends at least 2ghz, so I guess this is what I'm looking for along with graphic card, wifi and something along the lines of 'extra clear display'. At a…
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PC problem {Kette Drive}
This morning I tried signing on to the PC and had message "The user profile service, service failed the logon" "The profile cannot be loaded" I managed Through the Boot disc to go to an earlier restore point that has let me log on with my user name and everything seems to be OK except when I turn the PC off then restart I…
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Help with graphics disappearing please!
I have noticed for the past couple of days that all of the mini graphics like :beer: :j :rolleyes: etc, I can't see on other peoples posts! Also I can't click on a picture that someone has posted on another website I go on. Instead of the pictures, all I can see is a small white box with a red X in it. What have I done??…
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Help, 3 hour old comp slow already!!
I've basically only just unpacked my computer. I've uninstalled norton free trial and installed free avast. Everything is fine except for the fact i can't download anything properly. I tried to download Nero free trial (188mb) and it is taking over 3 hours. Also i cannot connect to Limewire (i dont illegally download).…
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Ryder Cup on PC ?
Is there anyway you can watch the Ryder Cup on the PC, (US channel ??). Thanks
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Laptop DVD judder
Hello. Can you help my daughter? She has no internet at the moment and is having problems with watching DVD on her Advent 8109 laptop. She says it 'judders', both sound and picture. Any ideas?
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Pixel setting on camera?
If I want good quality 6" x 4" or 5" x 7" photos printed - what is the best pixel setting to have my camera on? Don't want to spoil the image quality of having to re-size before getting them printed. Thanks Nickx
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Recovering Corrupt Data off Hard Drive
accidental double post. Apologies.
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Recovering Corrupt Data
Can anyone recommend any programs/ways to recover corrupted data? My computer recently crashed and could no longer get into windows. I used HDD Regenerator on the disk that had failed and (after 3 days) it seemingly recovered some bad data. I reinstalled windows on a partitioned part of another hard drive. Now when i look…
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IE 8 is killing me
Hi all downloaded IE 8 yesterday and I have had nothing but trouble since then, computer crashing/freezing tried to go back to IE 7 but it won't let me cause I have newer version, so what is the best browser around I can download and once downloaded shall i completey remove IE 8 Many Thanks Lee
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Cant view the icons? Any ideas
Im sure there is a simple answer to this.I am unable to view the icons (like the smileys etc) on this forum.It only happened today and im sure ive not changed any settings.Does anyone know how to rectify it, even if I right click on the cross and click show picture nothing happens.It is driving me mad.
