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new laptop advice
hi, somebody toldme to post here for advice. i need a new laptop, but am clueless. are netbooks any use, or am i just better off with a laptop?? my budget is around £400 i only use computer for internet, games occasionally, and doing college work oh sometimes makes music on it too was told this ones ok??…
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Narrator
Hi, can anyone help please. Just bought a new compaq and while playing with vista for the first time I tried out narrator, now i cant stop it. How do I disable it from starting up when I log on.
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Digital Photo Frame
Hi, Can anyone advise on the file formats supported by digital photo frames. I am particularly interested to know if any support HTML. thanks HP
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What's wrong with this picture?
cheap? ///my guess is they won't honour it :(
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Playing Music
I always listen to music on my computer. All of a sudden today it has gone strange. When music is playing, whether it's music already on Windows Media Player or a cd I try to play, I can hear the music ok, but the singing seems to have disappeared into the background. I have Vista Home premium. Can anyone help me - I need…
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SD Card for the Wii
I bought a 4gb SD Card for my Wii and I can't use it. The console says the "device in the SD Card slot cannot be used" or words to that effect. Does anyone know why as I was told in can use any SD Cards
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performance agreement on a laptop/sky equipment?
i had the misfortune to own an advent lap top that was bought in pc world 2 years ago. we took out thr pc performance agreement, even though we were not sure about it, at a cost of £7.99 permonth. we did this as i am reliant on having a computer for my day to day living. as things turned out the lap top spent most of its…
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Getting all freeview channels
Hi guys, Just got my new lcd tv and trying to get going on the freeview. It appears to have tuned in some of the freeview channels perfectly (automatically), but for quite a few channels (eg itv, ch4), it gives the message "selected program is not available" and I can't seem to tune it at all. It seems strange that I can…
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System Restore I cant restore or create a restore
I cant do a system restore theres no restore points to go to plus if i go to create a restore point it says system restore is not able to create a restore point please restart the computer then run system restore again (which i have done but it just comes up again saying to restart the computer) any ideas thanks in advance
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why is my laptop so slow...
i've removed programs that i dont use and ive reduced this a lot but still my laptop takes ages for webpages to appear? can anyone guide me please? :confused: (I love that icon)
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Google Search in Firefox
This is really annoying me. I regularly use the google search integrated into firefox, both using the box in the top right of the screen and by right-clicking on a selected word and clicking "Search Google for..." (this changes to amazon, ebay, etc, depending on whichever search engine I have selected.) Anyway, it used to…
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New PC joys /endsarcasm
New PC Acer Aspire M1201 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ processor (2.30GHz, 1MB Cache) Vista Home premium 1GB DDR2 667MHz memory 320GB SATA hard drive (7200rpm) Got it for xmas for the kids and its playing up already. Just gone to boot it up, it holds at the splash screen for a longish while, then goes to a screen that tells me…
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how to Convert MOD file to other format?
Hi Guys, Anyone know of a good, and if possible, free file converter to convert my Digi camcorder files from MOD, i have WMP11 and it doesnt want to play the MOD files, QT will, but really dont like it. Thanks Jim
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Internet Explorer problem
http://john14.regfix.hop.clickbank.net/?mode=ie I posted a couple of days ago about not being able to get a particular site the owners of which have told me I must use IE. This is a new laptop so I am baffled as to how a problem like this has occurred but when I click on IE I get: EXPLORER.COM I have right clicked on it…
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Best hosting site to host Joomla
Hello Been playing with Joomla using XAMPP and have now got my blog just as i like it. Next step is to go LIVE... Any idea's on decent hosting site? I also need to buy a domain name and will need the usual PHP, MYSQL etc etc Not looking for anything free but at the same time do not wish to pay loads... Thanks for reading
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Problem with Turbo lister 2 ?Anyone help please
Sorry to be a pain people ,not my day today ! Wifes just trying to upload stuff on TL2 but when we click the programme on either the short cut on the desktop or go into TL2 with programmes it just opens on screen for a few seconds then goes off again ? Wont open TL2 ? any ideas ?
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Dyslexia help computer software
Hi everyone not sure if this post is in the right area? I have some specialist software (dyslexic help) that I had at Uni I'm wanting to sell; its a few years out of date though! Any suggestions where to sell other than e-bay? Do computer shops sell second hand software like they do games (I'm a bit new to all this so…
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My NEW Laptop keeps shutting down..HELP!
Hi everyone. Can anyone help? I have a brand new Acer Aspire 5535 lap top that shuts down at random intervals, (not sleeping or hibernating). There is nothing I can do to retrieve it unless I shut it down completely, and reboot. I have 'googled' the problem, and I see there are others out there with the same problem. Can…
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Antivirus 2009.
My daughter, about to go back to uni has just had this start to run a scan, she immediately stopped it and closed all programs. We ran a Malwarebytes full scan which quarantined about 10 Mp3 files which had dodgy codecs on them. No further files were found so ran Spybot S&D, Ccleaner and Threatfire with no results. She is…
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Windows 7 BETA 1 - a review.
Windows 7 is faster than Vista SP2 BETA that I was running on this laptop. However, the user interface is a mix of brilliance and a chuffing joke. The taskbar and its operation is a joke - I'd tell you what was wrong with it but that's an entire post in itself. Everything now seems to have 50,000 places to launch from. The…
