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Any recommendations for easy, intuitive DS games for our almost 6 year old?
Hi everyone, our daughter got a Nintendo DS from FC this year and we picked up a few apparently easy, and child-friendly games, all with an age rating of 3+ but have found most of them to be completely counter-intuitive and very odd to say the least. The only success has been Cooking Mama 2 which she's hardly put down for…
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Asus Eee - basis question.
Hi, Can anyone remind me how I can see the bottom of web pages when they are too large for my screen? I used my E when I was on holiday with no trouble, havent used it for a few months, and my mind has gone blank on this one. :o Also, can you change the screen res so pages do fit? I've got the Asus Eee 4G.
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Problem with xbox 360
My husband has installed Final fantasy xi on his xbox 360 but when he goes to play it the xbox won't read the disc. He has formatted the hard drive twice and it reads the disc to install it but then it won't read the disc to play. can anyone help please.
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whats the best way to permanently back up photos
im a bit out of touch with all the latest techy stuff:o anyway..i have lots of photos stored on my laptop , id like copies stored somehow incase the laptop goes wrong whats the best method , and how many average pics fit on one cd/card etc cd memory stick sd card ???
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Maxwell usb memory stick 2gb
I bought this memory stick to put divx films onto to watch on my Hanns g hp076vd portable dvd player. When i insert the usb stick into the usb port on my machine i get a message saying that it is an unreadable file. But if i put the same film on a sd card and then use a usb memory card adaptor the film plays no problem. I…
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photo printing help please.
Hi all im atempting to make some photo keyrings for family every time i print out the photo its to big or to small ive tried windows picasa epson no joy so far any ideas or programs out there ? All the best for 2009.:T
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Laptop Taking a Long Time to start up
Im running vista 32bit SP1 on a sony VGN-N38E laptop with 2gb ram and in the last month ive noticed my laptop seems to be taking much longer to startup fully. Any ideas how I can identify the problem? :confused:
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New life for old PC
I have a old(ish) PC running windows XP on 500kb of RAM that is very slow. Instead of throwing it out I am thinking of keeping it simply to access the internet and use with an old 3in1 printer as a scanner / copier. Is there a more efficient or leaner OS is could get to load on the PC to do this and replace the XP? Are…
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Problem downloading I Tunes Software to laptop
Hi, I am after a bit of help hre. My wife got an I Pad nano for Christmas and was trying to download the software onto our Acer laptop. She kept getting the message something like 'Administrator had set preferences to stop this download please contact them' Neither of us has knowingly set up the laptop to stop downloads. I…
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having trouble using wireless on netbook
i brought my children these for xmas and they r brilliant 4 them, but were having trouble connecting to wireless, ive made sure LAN is on and it does find my computer but when i click 2 connect nothing is happening. any ideas anyone... thanx in advance
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Connecting PC via wireless
I have a 4 years old pc that I moved upstairs in my house. Previously connected via cable to the modem. Now have new pc and also using a BT Hub (the last version not the latest one). I have not been able to establish a connection wirelessly to the hub but the old pc supposedly has a wireless capability (and a little ariel…
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Rebooting Vista
I need to reboot my daughters dell laptop, i have all the reinstall discs, but don't know how to start the reboot???? I defo know it needs doing but need help to start????? We have saved everything we need to keep onto discs!!!
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Extra 15% off at memorybits for 72 hours
I realise this isn't strictly the correct forum, but as it is "techie" related, besides the current offers/sale at www.memorybits.co.uk if you use the code "bigsale15" you'll receive a further 15% off your order.
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dishwasher help needed please
hello and hope you all had a great christmas. on christmas day we had out electric cut out, after some time we realised it was our dishwasher doing it so id like to just see if (a big if i know) anyone could shed any light as to why it would do that, we have tried a different 13 amp in the plug, the dishwasher is not…
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Extremely slow laptop please HELP!!
Hi all, Hope you all had a great christmas..I need some help, I recently found the charger for my laptop so now I am using it again after 2 years...however I am finding it is extremely slow!! I think there may be something on it, is there any program (that will not make it even slower) that I can use to figure out the…
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Xbox 360 profiles
Help - my son got an Xbox 360 yesterday and when he originally switched it on he set up a profile. Today we have signed him up to Xbox live but instead of his original profile now being upgraded to be online he seems to have 2 diferent profiles one for offline and one for Xbox live - is this right?
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Size of TV
I am asking my parents to buy me a flatscreen TV for my birthday in under 3 weeks time. At the moment, I have a 15inch conventional TV. I have been told, the size of the TV base are a lot smaller than conventional TVs, so I can get away with a larger screen. I have some room either side of the TV, so I can do this. What is…
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Hotmail problems
Hi guys I've never posted on this techie thread before but I need some help please. I discovered about two months ago that my hotmail accounts been sending spam messages to everyone in my contact list. I discovered that there is a section under options where you can get hotmail to send a "vacation" message to people while…
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Roboform On Linux
hI I have been given a netbook for xmas which runs on Linux I am on the net now, all ok. Got a memory stick and moved some important files from my pc, but having moved roboform I cant access passwords which I need - as a big comper! can roboform be used in mozilla firefox which i am using or should I try to download IE…
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Bebo Virus, computer wont work ... help!!
Hi got the bebo virus on my computer by clicking on an infected link. Unfortunately now my computer will rarely connect to internet.In control panel it said lots of internet explorer were running. If it didnt connect it would often redirect me. I installed AVG (by disc as it wouldnt let me download it, saying files were…
