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Blu-Ray is obsolete.....
....well, not quite yet. But it could be at some point in the near future: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8021012.stm
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laptop cant find wireless network
hi all picked up one of the cheap laptops tesco had on offer ,Gateway 15.4" screen running vista,but there seems to be a problem when you turn the laptop off and then turn it on next day it cant find "any" wireless networks ,but if I reinstall the wireless drivers it then picks up all networks around us ,dont want to bring…
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PC Monitor
Hi, I was wandering if anyone had a link (or more) to a site, with decent deals for PC Monitors. I am spending £120 maximum, other details don't really matter - as I do not know a lot about it? :D Anyway Thanks, feeringo
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Do I have to run virgin media disk on new laptop to get online?
As the title suggests, I'm expecting my dell studio 15 laptop to turn up tomorrow just wondered if I need to run the Virgin Media Broadband disk that came with the modem in order to get on line. The reason being that I've not got a clue where the disk is. The laptop will be running vista and will be connect to a netgear…
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Wow
Hi, I think this is in the right section, and I think its legal. Basicly if you search inurl:/view.index.shtml into google, most of the results that it brings up will be cctv cameras. i've been through nine pages, and went through nearly all the results in those nine pages, all of them are sfw. This is more fun than…
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trouble trying to get DSI to connect to internet
Hi can anyone help have gone through manual settings set up SSID and WPA key but can't get on the internet with my DSI has anyone got any pointers many thanks in advance
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BBC Iplayer
I don't know if anyone can answer this, but why is it that some programmes you cannot download on the Iplayer they have to be watched "live" so to speak? I have a very slow broadband speed due to the area where I live and cannot watch programmes straight from the computer I have to download them first then it is fine. I am…
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Windows Media Player/Real PLayer help
google helped me out....all sorted now :)
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Label printing
Does anyone know of any simple free label printing software? I know that you can set up mail merge in Word, but it must be used by a person with very little PC experience and all of the menus would probably freak them out. It really needs a very simple interface with input fields for name, address1, address2 etc, an easy…
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Can't log in
Hi i a having problems logging in on another web site forum. I have tryed two pc's and still no joy but after i cleaned the history etc. i got in once then couldnt again or it is hit and miss if i can get in. if i try to post that is aso hit and miss if it works. This has been going on for two days Has anyone any ideas i…
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Confusion over processors
Hello and I wonder if someone in the know can help me. I am looking to replace my 5 year old Dell Dimension desktop with a laptop for more portability. My confusion starts when looking at the processor speed. My 5 year old Dell has a pentium 4 2.4GHz processor and the laptops in my price range are between 1.6GHz and…
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Urgent virus help needed
just got a pop up saying , we have lots of Trojans on our computor and that our computor is infected. A pop up from windows sercurity alert has collected these Trojans to be deleated. But when I click remove all , another pop up tells me The publisher could not be verified , are you sure you want to run this soft ware ?…
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Tecchie problems on Ebay....Help
For quite a while now I am unable to leave feedback on Ebay...when i go to leave it and click positive, the dialogue box does not open.....I've tried turning off pop-ups.....but then every now and then it works but it never lasts.Today my kapersky antii virus has run out and I've removed the programme and installed…
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kernel: Intrusion->[SYN]
My internet just went down for about 10 seconds so I thought I would have a look in the routers log to see what happened... I have about 30 entries saying: What the hell :mad: this is a dos attack right? What does all the other stuff mean like LEN?
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ebay scroll problem
Hello, I am well used to using ebay but just lately when I look at a list of items, click on one of them and then return to the list my scroller will only take me to the top of the page instead of stopping at the item I looked at. This is driving me mad! I emailed ebay - they suggested that I use the backspace instead of…
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Ripping CD's
Is WMP the best to use or are there other alternatives to use to rip cd's. What are the advantages of using other one's than WMP? Many thanks Nicks
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McAfee Total Protection 2009
I won a sealed boxed copy of McAfee Total Protection 2009 on disc. But I have Kaspersky until Feb 8th 2010. Don't think CEX buys/swaps so be hard to sell I can't find the answer to the latest date you can activate 2009 version by. Would it be 31st December 2009??? It may be that they bring out 2010 version in late 2009.…
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Double User Freezing!
I wonder if anyone has the same problem as me and has found a way to solve it? I have a 6 month old PC with two users set up (using Windows Vista) On one user I can access the internet via IE no problem, on the other though everytime I try to go on Internet explorer it freezes. It is a real nuisance as it means I have to…
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Worrying message at start-up
I'm getting the following message popping up during start-up now, for some reason: Error in C:\Windows\system32\NVCPL.DLL Missing entry:NVSession Startup Wondered if anyone knows what it can be, and whether I should be worried. It doesn't seem to make any difference to the pc so far, but I assume something has burped…
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Which mobile??
Hi there, Am after some advice as to which mobile I should get next as I am due for upgrade soon (end May/beginning June). I am quite keen on something good for browsing internet but could also do with an ebook facility as I use quite a lot of reference books. Am not averse to any makes although not a fan on spending extra…
