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Sky (or Sky+) in a property with communal dish
Me and my wife currently live in an area of flats, which apparently has a communal satellite dish. In accordance with the contract, we recently wrote to the agents that handle everything, asking for permission to have Sky put in. We received a letter back saying that the landlord has no problem with us having Sky. But it…
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Linux - got there eventually
After several failed attempts (over several years), I finally migrated one of my pcs over to Ubuntu. * Filezilla for FTP, * Thunderbird for various email accounts. * XSame for scanning (through the Gimp) * Shared folders through a Windows network using Samba * Shared printers too! Best things - * The pc is 900 Mhz with…
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Small business website blocked by corporate servers - why?
My OH runs a bridge club and teaches bridge. He has a website which he hosts using his Pipex small business account. Until recently it was very successful at attracting new recruits to both games and lessons. Howerver the online enquiries have dried up over the last few months, and asking around he has been told by some…
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hjt check
hi guys been tryin to sort mates laptop out can some one give it a quick check see it i got rid of everything Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 17:03:29, on 10/05/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18226) Boot mode: Normal Running processes:…
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Slighty concerned!
Hi, My father uses BT as his ISP and has been having some problems with his e-mail. He called BT's customer services and they sorted it out for him. The thing is, part of what they did was give him a new password to access his account. He is quite security concious and always uses passwords that are a random combination of…
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Cant seem to alter the size of columns in a Table! Help
Can anybody help? Ive put a table in Word (using office 2007) and for some reason I cant alter the width of the columns or rows. I must have pressed something or done something cos Ive been able to do it before! What have I done and how do I change it back!! Please help! TIA!
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Should I upgrade to explorer 8?
Is it a good idea to download internet explorer 8? its in my windows update but didnt know if there are any problems with it so wanted to ask here first. I'm windows xp pro on one machine xp on the other
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built in laptop sd card reader problem
ive got a dell inspiron 1501, it has built in sd card reader, but it doesnt always recognise the card when i insert it. ive been trying tonight but it doesnt show in my computer, it makes a sound when i insert it and remove it but cant see the card on my computer. any ideas?
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Ipod Touch ~ keeps wiping music when I move computers.
Hi all *strangled voice* any pointers on how I can sort this out.:o My itunes account is linked on my little laptop eeepc thang. This has no CD drive. I've bought tunes from itunes and today I thought I'd try to be [STRIKE]stupid [/STRIKE] clever and download my cds from the house computer, tried to sync but it says in…
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Slow internet speeds
Hello, hopefully somebody will be able to give me some advice as I'm not particularly technical. My dad has an internet connection to TalkTalk and having run the testyourbroadbandspeedchecker (or something like that) he is getting download speeds of 500 (i.e below 1mb) which doesnt sound the best to me. However, my speeds…
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Screentime Screensaver Engine?
Hi Guys, I've searched, but I can't find the answer to this. Please can you help? I've just had a pop up from Avast saying that Screentime Screensaver Engine is trying to access the internet. I've never heard of this before. Can anyone tell me what it is, how it got on my computer and most importantly, is it spyware (or…
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DVD Drive freezing
Does anybody have any ideas on what might be causing a dvd drive to freeze while playing/ripping discs? It starts off fine but after a minute or so stops but if left for a while will continue. I've tried reinstalling the drivers, plugging the leads back in, codec packs and multiple rippers but still get the same. cheers,
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Laptop SATA driver
Hi I have a toshiba A210 1AZ laptop with vista installed as standard but would prefer XP. Can anyone help me with the SATA driver required to do the instal, I have searched all over the place. Hope someone here can help.
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No sound off Internet using XP
I don’t know much about computers, but I can’t get any sound off the Internet. My system works fine when playing recorded material eg mp3 and av files. It has been like this for a while. I have checked how the sound system is set up by looking at other computers and I can’t see anything wrong. In Control Panel /Sounds and…
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Unable to access Quidco.
I suggested to a pal that he opened a Quidco account to obtain cashback on his purchases. As he is less computer savvy than me, I tried to open an Quidco account on his laptop for him. I was able to open the Quidco site but was unable to open any other pages, unable even to join. He has had no anti virus or anti spyware…
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Hardware problem?
My previously well behaved computer has been playing up for the last month or so, any thoughts will be gratefully received. It reboots randomly, it's not over heating and besides I run with the side off to keep the Athlon cool. Apart from the hard drive, all the parts are about 8/9 years old. It's been fine for the last 3…
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Plse help! Windows on PC wont load
Hi, I'm currently on my laptop pleading for help. I've just switched on my PC and windows XP loaded. It all looked a bit not quite right and most of the links didn;t work and the icons normally in the bottom right corner were'n't there. When I pressed the start key the box popped up but with not a lot in it! I tryed to…
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Wii video
I have a 2 GB SD card with a small video in WMV format I want to play it through my Wii but it does not see it in the photo menue, is there a way around this.
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Processor swap?
My PC, mostly from skips/scrounged has been playing up lately, but I'll start another thread about that. I currently have a Gigabyte GA-7vkmls mainboard, fitted with an AMD AthlonXP2400. Over the weekend I was given a case fitted with a Mercury KOB740FDMx mainboard, complete with AMD Duron 1.3 (?), and no HD. The cpu fan…
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Hijack This Logfile Help Needed!
Hi guys Here is my HijackThis logfile ... any comments as my PC is running a bit slow and my hard drive space is very limited and not sure why? Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 18:43:39, on 06/05/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18241)…
