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Cleaning up an old PC
Hi, I wonder if someone could take a look at a Hijack This log for me. This is our old computer and hasn't been online for 3 years but I recently managed to connect with a network adaptor and would like to be able to use it for a spare. Unfortunately in the days when it was the main PC I wasn't very security concious, and…
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Cleaning your computer TFT flat screen monitor
I have recently been in and around town. I went into a computer shop for a part I needed and noticed cloths that claim to keep your TFT screen sparkling clean. These cloths can cost up to £30. Don't buy it - you just wasted about £29 The cheap way is as follows : You can have your monitor off or on for this, I usually do…
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Help with saving work
Please help a complete numpty. For my work I've filled in a spreadsheet which was attached to an email I received and I now have to send it back. I've clicked 'file' and 'save as' and a box came up saying something like 'this may not work, do you want to change the format to ODF?' I said yes, but now I can't find it…
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Acer laptop - Vista - sound.
In my wisdom I thought I'd dump all the Acer "bloatware" that comes with the laptop. And there is a lot of it. Alas one of 10 or 15 Acer programs controls the audio quality as I've just discovered. I've had to reinstall the audio driver and it's still not perfect. So now I have "empower" the thing again before i can…
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Need help to Zoom in
Hi Can anybody help me please. I go on a website and if i want to see an item up close, there is an icon which says Zoom to see a close up of it. When i click on this icon, nothing seems to happen. I don't know why, all i know is, i used to be able to do this but not any more. I did do a system restore at one point but…
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DVD Player Region Unlock Code
I'm trying to help my friend in Italy to obtain an unlock code for her DVD player, so that she can play DVDs from other regions Here is the brand name and model information: NORDMENDE NMD VRX 14SE Unfortunately, I can't find any codes listed for Nordmende. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you for your help. Cheers, Joel…
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Any C#.NET developers out there.......
Hi guy's, I have a question regarding background worker threads in C#, I need to implement a progress bar on an application I am developing to show progress of a task running on a different thread, I am pretty new to background workers and multi-threading in C# so any advice would be very welcome. Thanks in advance. P
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Resetting USB Port
Happy New Year Everyone! Once in the distant past I damaged a Memory Card by simply removing it from my multi-card reader built into a 3.5 inch bay and attached to the motherboard by cable. I was told you can do this using XP or Vista. Now people tell me you should always 'Safely Remove' or 'Eject' blah blah blah. Anyway,…
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Downgrading a New Laptop to XP
I've had a quick look - can't find if this specific question has been asked before. If i'm purchasing a new machine with Windows Vista Home premium, whats the procedure to downgrade this to Windows XP (Pro - if possible)? Does this have to be paid for? or because you already have a licence for an OS is it free? do disks…
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Re: PC Security...well you have to laugh aghhhhh
Well thanks for her replies I have now put all your advice into action. However upon changing my password for administrator i now seemed to have locked my self out of my own pc as i've forgotten it! Yup i'm not the most it literate!! Is there anything i can do or am i !!!!!!ed? It will let me into the guest account nothing…
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HP laserjet printing problem - help needed
I have an HP laserjet 1600 colour laser printer that has just started playing up. The problem is that all prints are missing the first 30-40mm or print on the left hand side of each document. There is something there, but it is extremely faded. I have tried recalibrating the printer, all toners are present and have a huge…
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Please help - Vodafone mobile broadband USB not detected by Dell Laptop
Hi there, I got a payg Vodafone mobile broadband recently and was using it without any issues till last week. My dell Inspiron 6000 had virus problems last week and so I had to recover it back to its original build. So, now I have installed Avast and Sygate on my laptop. The problem is when I connect my Vodafone broadband…
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2 threats detected with ESET scan, wot do I do now?
Hi, I don't know too much about computers but in the last couple of days my computer has been freezing so I thought I'd do an online scan with ESET. The scan has finished and 2 threats have been detected, how do I know what the threats are and what do I do to correct them? Thanks in advance, Pab
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Restoring to iphoto
I have accidentally deleted all my photos from iphoto and made matters worse by emptying my trash - is there any way to restore deleted items. I did a back up via time machine about six months ago but not since, so this will be out of date. and therefore some images will be missing! Can't quite believe I have been this…
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Computer fan type whiney noise...
As per the title...!! When I open up IE my pc cooling fan kicks in. Depending on what type of page I'm looking at depends on the loudness of the whining noise. If I open up google.co.uk the noise is quite gentle and lasts about 1 second. If I open up something like freecycle or log into facebook, then I've found that the…
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Acer Wlan problem
Hello all Had big problems with an Acer 530 laptop, culminating in having to format and reinstall XP. Everything is ok now bar the internal Wlan. Can't get the Acer drivers to work and not sure what to try. Any help would be most welcome.
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"WINDOWS/system32/nvaux32.dll" VIRUS! How do I get rid of it properly?
PLEASE HEAR ME OUT: Booted my computer today, and immediately got a "Multiple Threat Warning" from AVGfree protection software saying I had 2 infections, and the infected files were located in WINDOWS/system32 and were called nvaux32.dll.... Subsequently, the same message popped up twice within a couple of minutes - first…
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Re:Cutting Back On 3G Dongle BB Radiation Emissions :)
Cutting Back On 3G Dongle Broadband Microwave Radiation Emissions lol Any suggestions for a Quality Offline Browser and Offline Newsreader that I can hard wire my 160 GB version of the Samsung Netbook into my landline broadband at home overnight in otherwords a robot downloader that will downloadload whole websites that I…
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Kaspersky
I am running Kaspersky 2009 on a XP Pro computer, can someone please tell me if I should also have firewall running ie Zone Alarm as on the install process of Kaspersky it said I should remove AVG & Zone Alarm? Does Kaspersky have a firewall in it?
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Help, how do a view a webpage before it was amended?
I know there is a way to view a site, or webpage, as it was in the past... say a few days ago, I can't rememeber where or how I did it though. Any ideas? Thanks A x
