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Confused about Freesat
Hi Guys, I'm considering installing freesat and have a few queries I'd be grateful if anyone could help me with. I already have a sky dish which I've never actually used as it was on the house when I moved in. Does this mean I simply need to pay for the freesat box (£50 for the non HD version and £100 for the HD version)?…
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Samsung R710 or other touch of colour range running Win XP?
Hi, I have been given the task of sourcing a couple of Samsung R710's. this in itself has not been a problem, the trouble is, I need them to run Win XP and i can only find them with Vista home or Vista Business. does anyone know of anywhere i can find one with WinXP or a downgrade to WinXP? alternatively, the R610 may have…
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Humax PVR-9150T V Humax PVR-3500T
Looking to buy a Humax, but looking at the specs on the Comet site, it would appear the only differences are the 9150T has 100 hours recording, and the 9300T has 200 hours recording plus Optical connection,(whatever that is), is this necessary? So as 100 hours would be ample, am I right in assuming it would be a waste of…
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capturing still images from hard drive recorder
Hello, I have some footage recorded onto a hard drive recorder, and want to get some stills from it. I have copied onto a dvd, but I *think* it loses a little quaity - could just be my interpretation though. However, I cannot do print screen to take the images from the dvd off anyway... what is the best way to get the…
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help with Venturer DVD 100K remote
I am after a remote control for the above dvd player? I picked up from carboot. Any chance are there any codes for a generic programmable remote for this player.
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How to un-partition a laptop?
My dd has a laptop that she uses to play Sims and go online - its seem to have quite a big hard drive but we keep getting error messages that she is running out of space - when we had a look it seems there is a partition and a whole load of space left but we dont know how to access it. She wants to put more Sims stuff on…
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Best place to buy a base unit for a desktop?
can anyone advise where I can get the main base unit as cheap as posss. Its just for a home computer used for internet and gaming and i dont really understand the whole details, and specs!. I have about £150- £170, is that even possible to get one at this price? I have a monitor and keyboard already. The make of monitor is…
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Office 2007
Oh dear! Should have read the instructions. I have an old copy of Word on my machine and I attempted to install Office 2007 without removing the old version of Word. Now both programs refuse to run. If I uninstalled 2007 using the built in program is it likely that my original copy of Word will be able to run. Thanks in…
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A quick question! when selling ur laptop.................
how do u ensure there are none of ur personal info etc still left on it. If u do system restore, does that clear up everything, or is there something else u should do to???
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Twitter - do you pay for incoming calls?
I thought I would sign up for Twitter last night. On the registration screen it gives you the option to send Twitter messages via your mobile phone but you have to sign up to receive them as well. I am a bit nervous that this might leave me open to receiving unwanted expensive incoming calls, whether spam or from overseas.…
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SQL Server Error Message
Hi I've done something majorly stupid and hope there is someone who can help me out. Yesterday I was deleting programs that I thought we weren't using but have deleted one (or two!!) that I probably shouldn't. I have tried system restore but when the PC restarts it comes up with the following message "SQL Dumper library…
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Which of these 2 desktops is best?
Hi, I'd be grateful if you could advise which of these two desktops is best value for money. #1: Packard Bell iMedia D3318, £380 * Intel® Pentium® E2220 Dual-Core * (2.40GHz, 1MB Cache) * Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic * 2GB DDR2 memory * 320GB SATA hard drive (7200rpm) * 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce 7050 graphics * Dual Layer…
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CCleaner update
I see CCleaner has an update to v2.19.900 which I downloaded. I've had Webroot Window Washer for nearly 12 months and it has never been updated in that time, which I thought was strange for this sort of product.
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Mac convert!
Ok, I've been bitten by the bug after a recent trip to the Apple store and am now in possession of a brand new, shiny Macbook Pro :j :j :j I'm finding my way around it remarkably well - can't believe how simple and ingenious most of the apps are! Plus the fact it just works straight out of the box - no messing around…
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Hinding Nokia Gallery Images/Videos
Is there any way of hiding certain personal images and videos from the gallery on my Nokia N85.
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Problems with eBid?
I have tried to get on the eBid website, but it says Forbidden and You don't have permission to access/on this server. Why is that? Is the problem with them?
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something has hijacked my email
Hi I am not very techie minded. Someone/thing has hijacked my yahoo email account and has to my knowledge sucessfully sent 1 email, all the others (all my email contacts) have been returned by the deamon mailer thing, as unable to be delivered. I checked my AVG and two components: - anti spyware and anti-virus were not…
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Xbox360; How many people keep the serial numbers?
My son Xbox360 had a fault on it, we googled to search for a site that would fix it in our area found and this one; http://www.allconsolerepairs.co.uk/ He collected his Xbox 360 only to find out when he got home it was not the one he had given in. His was only just over 12mths old so just out of warranty & immaculate. He…
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Firefox problem
Since I upgraded to Firefox 3.0.10 it won't open. I get an error message but that is continuous and the only option is to quit Firefox. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have any ideas to solve it? thanks fs
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MSN problem............
Has anyone had problems signing into msn to night. I carn't sign in. It keeps coming up with error code 80072efd. Any ideas please anyone.
