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VIRGIN users
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anyone recommend something to securely remove all data off HDD
Hi, I am going to sell the HDD off my broken laptop but want to ensure as much as possible there is no data on it and make it as difficult as possible for anyone to try and retrieve it. Can anyone recommend a good free application to do this? Thanks Mike
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PC World Smart Plan - General Public
I friend of mine recently went to PC World in Grimsby to purchase a laptop as her other one had broken and she needed a replacement one urgently. She asked for some advice about which one she would need and was talked into, by the sales person, leasing a laptop from them. She does NOT own a business. She was told by the…
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An unintentionally dumb question
Just a quickie. I have a nice new 10.2" netbook but can't find a sleeve for it and was wondering how likely it would be to fit into one for a 10" netbook as I can only find that size, smaller or 13"+. Thanks in advance for any constructive answers. :)
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Mac / Safari help please
Hi I hope someone can help me please. I switched my Mac on this morning and found Safari isn't working correctly. I normally have it set to open up a google page, and it has a load of bookmarks listed across the top of the screen. Running alongside Safari, I also have Firefox. Google looks exactly the same as normal on…
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Difficulty opening some websites
Hi you Nice Techie minded Computer People who take time to help a total computer numbskull like me. :o Why do I keep getting these messages up when trying to open some websites Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage What you can try: Diagnose Connection Problems…
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Cannot remove unwanted program.How do I?
A company called Personnel Antivirus[has a yellow shield that looks like Norton] fooled someone in our house to download to check for viruses.It now keeps sticking up warning bubbles every few seconds,but I cannot find it in my remove/restore programme box.How can i get rid of it please?As it will not let me proceed on its…
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Chkdsk utility help please
Can someone please advise how i can run my chkdsk utility. When I do it via Explore I get a message that says Windows Unable to Complete Check. When I type in 'chkdsk' in Run, nothing happens. My computer is dying, please help. Thanks
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MP3 player problem
I can't transfer MP3 trax to my Sumvision MP3 player cos it says it's write-protected - how do you turn off the write-protect? No mention of it in the little manual it came with.
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Any good free web hosting with FTP access sites?
Hi all, I wonder if anyone can recommend a good free web hosting service, with ftp upload access? I want to host some very basic html pages and photos on there, would be low bandwidth and I would require a web url for people to access this. To be used to host photos allowing me to add more pictures when I sell stuff on…
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Website Security Certificate Warnings??
Hi all, I have just logged onto my computer and onto the internet and, with the exception of MSE (?), every webpage I try to open comes up with the message "There is a problem with this website's security certificate". I am with sky for my broadband and even got this message when I tried to log into sky?? I am presuming it…
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Wireless broadband Advice
With virgin media, and my broadband connection cable comes from my loft, down into my spare room and along skirting board and then into my modem to connect up my pc. Now I am not very technical so please excuse the stupid question, would a wireless broadband connection which virgin media have on there site then allow me to…
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Getting emails off old laptop hard drive?
Got an old lappy that's bust so I've connceted the HDD to my new pc via usb. I can find the email folders on the old HDD (.dbx files) but can't work out where to move them to so that they can be read through Outlook 2007 on my new pc. any ideas?
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Getting emails off old laptop hard drive?
Got an old laptop that's kaput, so I've shoved the HDD in a case and connected it to my new pc via usb. I've located the email folders (.dbx files) but can't work out where to move them to to get them to appear in outlook (Outlook 2007). Anyone got any ideas?
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I want to burn some photos onto a DVD...
What software could/should I use to do this? I'm using Window XP by the way.
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Converting slides to dvd
Im guessing its possible to convert slides to dvd, has anyone done this before ? what costs are involved ? is it something a home user could do ?
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Portable CD Player
I've just bought a portable CD player/Radio - Sony Walkman D-NF 340 Mp3. I particularly wasnted a CD player rather than an Ipod. Works well but the instructions say I can play a CD with MP3 recorded on it. I understand that the MP3 will allow a much larger amount of music etc on the CD but have no idea how to do this as I…
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Compaq bios caput?
right, my girlfriends very old rubbish computer just about running xp is having some issue it came with no os when she got it and someone put a new hard drive in it and installed xp, and its ran fine for years, then recently someone replaced the hard drive since and put xp back on and xp runs fine but when you switch the…
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Disc information required please
My recently married daughters photographer placed 50 of the best in an album, the other 250 plus are on a disc. These have now been copied to my laptop. My wife who dosen't use the net, would like to have the pics transferred back to a disc of her own so that she can view them on our DVD recorder. We tried to transfer them…
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New version of AOL (beta?) lost it?
I have AOL VR (vista ready). I ran that & some new (beta perhaps) version side by side, I used the new version the rest of the family still logged in by AOL VR. I liked the way you could open different pages & there were tabs at the top to switch between. I had to completly uninstall AOL recently & I can't find it on the…
