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Motorised Treadmills - Eat up electricity?
I am currently considering getting in a treadmill(I am starting to go soft and no longer look forward to 6 to 8 mile runs in the freezing cold dark of winter) but am being put off by the cost. It is not the price of the treadmill itself that I am worried about but that of the electricity required to run it. Motorised…
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Enable MMC snap-in in DOS help please.
Hello everyone. I'm trying to repair a corrupt file in XP using the recovery panel but I need to use the SET command but it is disasbled and I need to enable it through the MMC. Any ideas please. Many thanks.
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Hard Drive optimised for digital video surveillance
Hi, I've been searching for a hard drive and I've found one I like (Seagate SV35.2 Series ST3250820AV) but the blub states it was designed for the digital video surveillance industry. Am i right in thinking this just means its more rebust in terms of re-writing and there is nothing about it that makes it less suitable for…
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my pc is driving me mad!!!
my mouse and buttons are just not responding , they are soooooo slow . it takes mer 4 or 5 clicks to open - close a page , open - delete email , typing etc i have done the steps (1-4 of malware /spyware removal)as the thread advised and if anything my pc is worse .. even slower. can someone please help and advise me what i…
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Need help! Problem with AVG and internet explorer and windows mail downloading
Hi i wonder if someone can help me. I have a couple of problems with my laptop. 1. if i go onto internet explorer to say download something, it goes through the motions of downloading then when it gets to the final 1% it freezes and shuts down internet explorer and throws me back to my home page. I have tried various…
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smiley face
how do i create smiley faces when using my laptop keypad (when not on mse )
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wireless router
I have just brought a linksys compact wireless broadband router-g but have found out that it needs a modem which i dont have as at the moment im using a netgear adsl router. Can anyone recommend one that is ok for me to use with 2 pcs and 2 laptops:confused: one of them uses lan if that makes any difference. :confused:…
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Price trends website
Does anyone remember a website that shows price trends and gives information such as lowest seen price, highest, and even tells you when you should buy or wait because it believes a price drop is coming up soon? I can't remember the website arrgh! It mainly has PC components on there. I can't find it on Google, I hope its…
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Card Reader not working
I have card reader built into my desktop. The card reader has stopped working for both Compact Flash and SD cards. When the cards are inserted nothing happens – the PC doesn’t recognise them and they do not show when going to ‘My Computer’. The USB, firewire, microphone and speaker sockets on the same panel all work OK;…
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why wont my avator move?
I am looking for a moving avator , when i find one ,and put it in my pictures, i find it doesnt move, what am i doing wrong? the one your seeing now was a moving one.
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xda Stylus Advice!
Hi guys i recently lost my stylus from my xda mini so i have to buy some new ones :mad: So i am purchasing some magnetic stylus's so hopefully i won't lose it but the only problem is i can only find magnetic stylus's for the XDA IGNITO , so... my question is will the stylus of the ignito comfortbly fit in the hole for the…
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ITV catch up - viewing problems
Hi, When ever we try to watch something from ITV.com it doesn't play properly. The sound is absolutely fine but the pictures play in jumpy freeze frames (missing many frames) so it's like watching still photos. Sometimes for a minute (or a little longer) it plays fine and the adverts & trailers they put in the middle are…
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Taskbar has changed
It's difficult for me to explain. But you know when you have several screens open they are shown on the left hand side of the task bar, and are fairly wide, until there are too many to fit in, well mine are now appearing on the right hand side and if there are more than two I have to use scroll arrows. Can anyone tell me…
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Help!!!! Emails being sent from my email address!
Help please!!! My daughter has just alerted me to the fact that she has received an email from my email address which I didn't send. When I have checked my emails, this particular email (which was advertising a website which I have never heard of, let alone visited) has been sent from my email address to every email…
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AVG has decided I have a trojan
One of the programs that I have had on my PC has suddenly started flagging as a trojan. I thought it was a bit odd so deleted it and reloaded a back up on but AVG still says it's a trojan, which I'm fairly sure it isn't but I can't find a way to stop AVG telling me every time I turn my PC on I have a trojan? I click ignore…
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Help please. Loosing Internet connection
I have followed all the advice given in this thread so I’m reasonably confident that if there was a virus it’s been dealt with. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1209137 My Dads computer is running XP with AVG and Zone Alarm. Last night I tried to update Zone Alarm but the update failed. (The update…
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find drivers
My son formatted his laptop, he reinstalled the disc that came with his laptop. A few of his devices didn't install correctly, when I checked device manager there is 3 yellow question marks. Is there anywhere I can go to find these drivers, I don't know what they are :confused: Thanks
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Not the biggest problem I've ever had but
when I was on the desk top all the icon letters changed colour from blue background to white, I have tried and looked but can't get them back to blue, any ideas? :confused:
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Help to totally removing anti-virud programme
I have tried several times to uninstall AVG and Avast anti-virus programmes from my PC. I have uninstalled them but when I go into remove programmes in my control panel they are still there and it will not allow me to remove them. Is there another way to do this as I keep getting messages that they are AVG/Avast errors on…
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how much to sell tv for?
following a bit of a windfall i have just bought a new LCD tv but i dont want to just give away my old Sharp 28" telly. Its getting on a bit but sound and picture quality are really good, just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on how much i could ask for it if i put it in the classified ads in local press? I just dont…
