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Excel help
Can anyone recommend any decent self help/training books for Microsoft Excel. I can do the basics, and I'm pretty good at setting up spreadsheets with basic formulas now, but I'm now building larger and larger spreadsheets which all merge into each other and also need to attempt graphs. As I've never had any training or…
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"buffering" on demand 5
:mad: trying to watch a program through demand5 but it plays the ads then says "buffering please wait", well I've been waiting too long!!! :mad: Any ideas techie people??
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c drive?
what numpty thought c was a good place to start in the alphabet?:confused: :D "hmmm now bill, what shall we name these new hard disk thingymabobs on our new dos os's" "well steve, how about A?" "hmmm no, too predictable bill" "B?" "no bill! its too close to A" " ok mr jobs, ummm c?" "hmmmmm c..... I LOVE IT!" ok.. ok i…
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"home training initiative"
Does anyone here know anything about a scheme that was used to sell pcs to people through work. the home training initiative it was called. I heard that you paid your pc off over 3 years and then paid a small final payment. is this still run by anyone? does anyone know which companies offer it?
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How do i open this attachment
i got an attachment today ( i know who its from ) and it ends in ".dat" .I cant get it to open . when i click on it it opens a site on windows xp with free trials to download, but i dont know what i need to download to open it.....HELP ! WHAT TYPE OF FILE IS THIS ?
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incar laptop charger
anyone know the cheapest place to buy an incar charger for an acer laptop. i need to get one soon for holiday.thanks
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ALDI Desktop PC
ALDI are advertising a desktop PC which will go on sale from Sunday. Cost is £599.99. http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2867_9910.htm I'm looking to buy a new PC, mainly for e-mail, surfing, photos and occasional BBC i-Player. Is this a decent PC? My current PC, and the one before it, both lasted 5 years each and I'm…
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How to wire sky+/dvd recorder/tv
Hi Sorry to ask a stupid question but Im really stuck on how to wire in a DVD recorder - the book which came with it is hopeless! Ive currently got sky+, wired into a TV by scart, and a dvd player on another scart into the TV. Ive replaced the dvd player with the recorder, but the recorder isnt picking up the picture from…
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Microsoft Update
I have reloaded my HP6061ea Laptop running Vista Home Premium to the original factory spec. When trying to reinstall IE8 a message said an update is missing and can not load even though updates are up to date and no more to receive, although on looking there are about 13 which have failed. I have been told that I can…
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Virginmedia Software Problems...
I've had no e-mails since 15th May. I've continuously called them and they keep telling my there a Software problem affecting customers Passwords which it wont accept. This is getting ridiculous and frustrating now and today there is some further problems and cannot say when it will be resolved. Anyone else having this…
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cheapest / best router for a small business
Hey, I own a small restaurant, and my partner signed up with unicom to provide the phone and broadband service. We want to let our customers have free access when they are in the restaurant, but the service didnt come with a router. Can anybody suggest which would be the best and cheapest router to get in this situation?…
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Getting error message after Facebook
HI, I've got a weird problem. Started out of the blue last week. After I exit out of Facebook I get that message that reads: "internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close...." "Please tell Microsoft about this problem" Then it gives you the choice to send an error report to them or not. It only happens…
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Opening new tab on IE......
Every time I open a new tab on Internet Explorer it shows thumbnails of lots of sites I've been on. How do I stop this? In the right hand corner it says Google toolbar. Do I have to get rid of the Google toolbar to stop these coming up? I just find them annoying!
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Windows XP problem
I am currently using Windows XP Home edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3 and have a pop up appear saying that 'Files that are required to run properly have been unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original versions of these files. It asks for the XP Home edition CD-Rom to be…
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sferring songs from Windows Media Player to Itunes
I'm thinking of getting a Ipod Touch, but am put off because of previous problems with Itunes...was given an Ipod a few years ago as a present, but when I downloaded Itunes it would let me transfer my music from windows media player to Itunes. Never managed to solve this problem so Ipod was useless (Argos wouldn't take it…
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Help needed please using x-box on virgin modem
Please can someone help me here, complete computer dumbo grandmother. My grandsons wanted the internet so that they could go online with their x-boxes. They have this at their mothers house but wanted to be able to still play when they are at their Dads, my son; We had a doorstep representative from Virgin who said it was…
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internet explorer..opens too many
I wonder whats up, when I go to open internet explorer, several of the home page come up, all ontop of eachother, I have had up to 22 just duplicating by itself then of course as so many are 'open' then the computer is too slow and stops. when I go to shut them (they are all blank) another little message comes up similar…
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Internet Connection Monitoring
Can anyone recommend an internet connection monitoring application ? What I would like is a utility that "pings" a given website, say once per second, and graphs the resulting times so I can see how well my internet connection is performing. I would like to leave it on all the time working in the background. George(Back on…
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Google can be Dangerous !
I've had a recent bad experience with Google/... Basically I wanted to search for "nullsoft netmon", so I entered that into the search box. Rather than displaying a list of search results, Google went straight to the "nullsoft" website and my Norton Internet Security flagged that site as dangerous. As it turned out, Norton…
