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What about this PC?
My mum wants a new PC for the living room and I am looking for her since I am the only one with any knowledge about them in my house! It will mostly be used for word processing and web browsing. I am just looking for other opinions really. This is what I have found and I thought it was a good deal: 2gb Ram Processor: Intel…
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Which burning format for audio cds
What option do i use to cpy music to a cd to play in my car. Im using cd burner xp and ive tried data cd as i thought that would work but it doesnt work, im using cd r's and i dont want to waste any more if i can help it, anyone got any ideas.
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emusic downloads - feedback please?
I hope I have put this in the right place - apologies if not, I did search so settled on this section. I purchsed (today) an ipod nano, along with a case, with the case was a card offering me 35 free songs and 1 free audiobook. Fabby for a novice like me. So I signed up, gave cc details and started downloading. The…
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Windows ME internet connection
I have a PC running window ME and have recently formatted the hard disk back to factory settings. I am now unable to connect to the internet – when I open explorer 5.50 the screen is just blank. I have reinstalled the drivers for the ethernet card and the set up is physically connected to router as previously when I could…
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Bad Pool Caller error blue screen...
Just got this blue screen error message - have never seen it before. Stupidly didn't keep note of code and no record of it in Event Viewer. Is there anything I can do to investigate further?!? I haven't installed any new hardware but I have installed Avira and Spybot in the past few days. Help!!! Have posted HijackThis in…
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Inherited laptop
I have inherited a fairly new HP laptop. I can login as have the user password etc. However, the computer is locked with administrator rights and I cannot install any programmes. Is there software that can wipe the whole thing and then I can do a rebuild. Thanks for any advice. GB
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Help with forms on new laptop please?
I have a new laptop and am having problems on any pages which have forms. Forums, car insurance quotes, that kind of thing. The page doesn't seem to want to wait on me and it reloads it and I lose whatever I have done. So when I am typing on forums I have to type in an email and quickly paste it in. Forms are a no go area,…
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Odd freezing of desktop
Hi guys Every once in a while (and getting more frequent), if I right-click on any icon I get the egg-timer which stays on for ages and I usually end up powering off by holding the power button in for a while. I've done a HJT log :- Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 20:21:33, on 26/04/2009 Platform:…
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Garmin Quest Sat Nav frozen
My Garmin Quest Satnav (6 years old) has frozen. The trick of pressing the on/off and zoom together shuts it down but when switched on again it doesn't find sats - just keeps searching and the menu and other buttons "bleep" but don't work. I have tried to connect it to my PC to update software but as I can't switch to "use…
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Making Hotmail my default email - help please
Have just got a new laptop using Vista and when clicking on email links would like them to go into my Hotmail email. Can anyone give me easy step by step instructions. Ive looked myself and it seems I may have to download another program but if theres a simpler way would be grateful if you could let me know. TIA
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ipod nano + stupid husband!! Help please.
Silly OH had ipod in the kitchen on docking station whilst doing washing up. He managed to knock a full glass of water over which splashed up and now the nano isn't working, won't even switch on. :mad: So question is....is it worth trying to take it apart and how can you do this OR should I just write it off and can I…
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Orange livebox help
Hi, I have orange broadband and using Livebox - I still have invental usb wireless which I had sometime ago from Wanadoo. I recently retore my computer to factory settings and now having problems installing invental orange software on my Visa machine. When I try to install the software it says Livebox error #583 Now…
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M$ WGA Notification Install?
I have a Microsoft WGA Notification pop-up asking me to install and check the validity of my XP O/S. Now, I don't want to install this as I understand it will send my product key and ip address details to M$ every time I start up my PC(something M$ neglected to inform users of when they sent this out). Does anyone know a…
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DefenseWall
Hi, Just wondered if anyone used the above? Any views on it? I'm currently using Sandboxie and thinking of ditching it for the above...
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broadband usage
hi, dont suppose theres any way i can monitor how much usage i have gone through on my internet is there? i've just changed to mobile broadband, dont want to exceed it! thanks, claire
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Laptop toshiba recovery disc
I purchased a toshiba laptop last december well 3 wks ago i was getting alot off error messages up and couldnt get on the internet, i phoned dixons technical helpline they sadi they would take the laptop in to get looked at. Well it went in and they had to replace the hard drive as it broke down or something like that,…
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Question For Hardware Experts
Which of these CPUs would you opt for in a new build ? http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?AMD-P2940 http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?AMD-P2955 and could you recommend a (hopefully not to pricey ;) ) motherboard for each CPU. Thanks :beer:
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iPod / Audiobooks Help Please!
I have a number of audiobooks on iTunes which play correctly on my laptop, but when I try and save them to my iPod, all the files are in alphabetical order, regardless of book. How do I get them to play in the correct order? :confused:
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Connecting speed
We have been connecting to the internet at 2.2Mbps until recently when it has shot up to 7.6Mbps apparently due to fibre optics at the exchange or something, does this actually mean we are connecting over 3x faster or isn't it that simple as we haven't noticed a difference when loading pages etc. Many thanks
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Please help - How to start a new thread about mobiles
Hi I am trying to start a new thread about calling international numbers from my pay as you go vodafone. But I am not getting a start new thread button (except here) Can someone help? Also will a reply be sent to my outlook inbox - or at least notification that I have a reply here? Thankyou
