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camcorder battery
need to upgrade camcorder battery. sony dcr-hc51e.sony battery expensive,have seen cheaper compatiable ones but they have a wire which plugs in main power supply on camcorder,not being tecnically minded can you still charge new battery ,as the mains power supply would be plugged into camcorder.:confused:
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Computer slow starting up. 71 "processes" running
When I click on Cntrl+Alt+Del and look at the processes running page I find 71 entries. Could these be making my computer start up slowly or affecting my computer in other ways? How do I know which ones I can safely delete? I've got 10 or more called SVCHOST.EXE and one, RPS.EXE, is apparently using 27,000K of memory while…
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Help needed downloading roboform
Hi everyone I am having real problems downloading roboform and google toolbar. I am clicking on RUN and it says 'File Download - Security Warning' Do you want to run or save this file? Then I have the potions to save, run or cancel. Then it says that files from the internet can be useful, but this type can be harmful to my…
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Power Consumption Help - Panasonic Plasmo vs LCD
Hi, Im looking to buy a LCD or Plasma TV after my CRT Sony TV gave up on itself this week, RIP:( Did some research and have decided on the Panasonic Veira range. Now I have it down to 2 TV's, 1 Plasma and 1 LCD The Panasonic TH-42PZ80B 42in Plasma or the TX-37LZD80 37in LCD. I was wondering if you clever people could tell…
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Where to buy more memory?
I need some more memory for my oh so slow computer. Anyone spotted any good deals on RAM?
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Help please.....
:confused: My Asus Eee pc arrived this morning. I am trying to connect it to our internet. We have an Orange Livebox upstairs, so I presume I can connect to the internet via that. The Eee pc has located the Livebox but When the Eee pc asks for the KEYWORD for the connection, what do I put in? There are a number of codes on…
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Cartridge refill
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How to get your name on Google??
Ok so here's a conundrum. I have no idea where to post this and techie seems as good as anywhere. Suppose you want to get your name up in lights on search engines - i.e. as many mentions/results as possible - by posting on the internet rather than winning an olympic gold medal! How might you go about it? I have no idea how…
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Web keeps freezing? help please?
I have got a Windows Xp home edition SP3 computer (which has Avira Antivir Personal installed) that freezes the web pages if I try and open another page in Internet Explorer.It does this about 50% of the time and its starting to really really really annoy me! The only way I can get out of the page is 'control Alt…
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Computer turning itself off
Please help. My pc just keeps turning itself off with no warning. I could be just looking at the internet or not even connected to the internet and then black screen? I've run virus scans and malware scans and they haven't detected anything. Sometimes it can happen once in a day, sometimes sveral times a day. The quickest…
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non techy blonde needs help
Hi, I could use some help here as a non techy person! I have recently subscribed to Sky plus and have the box in the back room which stores any programmes I want to watch. In the front room I pay for another box which receives sky but doesn't have the store facility. I have, in the front room a Samsung DVD-VR350 DVD…
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Apple Ipod Classic 80gb- help please !
I have itunes installed on my pc. All my music has dropped off my ipod.(don't know what I have done ) I have backed up all of my mp3's (over 10,000) onto my external 250gb drive. itunes was originally on my c drive, which i have got rid of all the music to free up space on c drive (only 75gb). How can I get the itunes…
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Hotmail probs...
Hi there I'm having probs viewing messages in Hotmail. The inbox fires up but I don't actually seem to be able to click on emails to open them. Still doesn't work when I right click and select Open. Any ideas? Do I need to alter some settings on my PC? Ta' Steve
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o2 Wireless problem
Hi I was trying to be clever last night (bad sign already, i know!) and tried to rename my generic o2 wireless connection on the o2wirelessbox.lan settings page. I changed the name, clicked apply and the connection died instantly. i tried reconnecting and was prompted for WEP key. It wouldnt accept this and kept timing…
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When it comes to cloning do only partitions matter?
Ok, I have a dual booting(winxp and win2k) system with 2 ide drives(seagates) and have installed a copy of maxtor's maxblast. One drive has winxp files while the other has win2k. Recently I bought an external case caddy(sata) and intend to clone the drives. What I need to know is:- 1.Can I clone each ide drive onto a sata…
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xp upgrade question
another chance for me to show I know enough to be dangerous.... sorting a pc for a friend, which has a licensed copy of win 98 on it. looking at several xp upgrade disks on ebay; a few say they have been used before - will they install OK if I buy them ? if so, what is to stop me using my own version of the xp upgrade (to…
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Grrr - Tomtom latest maps made available less than a week after buying new maps!
Hello all! Last Monday, I purchased and downloaded the latest UK/Ireland map set, for the Tomtom One. However, upon updating the device today, i've found that they've released a newer version of the maps, and so they must have known that they were going to release new maps when I purchased them. I did speak to Tomtom on…
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compatible ink cartridges
hi, have a Canon MP610 and am thinking of acquiring the iP2600, as an economy printer (price). what is the lowdown on Canon compatible inks please, will they go wrong or total my printers? :eek: thanks Ric
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Hijackthis Log
Hi, I was checking daughters computer before she goes back to uni and was wondering if anyone could check through this as she said it was running slow before she came home for summer. Have installed Avast and running scan at moment. Thanks. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 22:46:15, on 08/09/2008…
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Hp Battery calibration
Hi guys, My brand new laptop crashed due to installing a windows update. Ever since then i have had some problems but my main one is battery calibration. I have tried to follow the instructions but it does not seem to work ? I've tried totally charging it then discharging it but its not working. I have an HP COMPAQ 6720…
