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Want to buy 4 netbooks
Thought I would pick all your brains about this !!:rotfl: A friend is looking at purchasing 4 netbooks for her kids (age range 11 to 18), for them to be able to do their school/college coursework and basic online use ie:- msn messaging,email etc., and was looking at this one in Maplins for £129.99…
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Epson printer wont print
Hi, can any one help plz. I have an Epson SX100 printer/scanner and yesterday I printed off a document but forgot to drop the flap down at the front for the paper to come through and it got stuck. I managed to get the paper out but now the printer wont print and just sends a blank piece of paper out. Have i totally ruined…
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Vista shutdown
Why does it take so long for my Laptop running Vista to shutdown? I'm sure that Microsoft had cured it, but since installing SP2 it seems to have gone back to the long drawn out shutdowns. Anybody else experience this?
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HD Camcorder LCD viewfinder HELP!
Hello all I've got the Canon HF100 Now, When I FLIP the LCD viewfinder around (Ie so Im pointing the camera directly at me and want to see me on the camera LCD viewfinder) the picture does not rotate, im viewing me upside down on the screen Usually the LCD screen FLIPs the image - when u turn it upside down to shot…
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tv licence after total switchover..
can someone settle an argument.. if someone has an old (analogue ) tv set, with no freeview etc, after the digital switchover, i take it there will be no signal broadcast which could be received, and so make you exempt from the tv licence?
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Photo Editing Software & Picassa Help
I'm wanting to download some good photo editing software - to crop photos and alter the brightness, change them to B&W - quite simple stuff until I get more into my photography. I know Picassa is meant to be good. I want a software where if I have photo1 and edit it, it doesn't then replace photo1 but will keep the…
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Download manager for firefox?
My trial of internet download manager has just run out so can someone reccomend a download manager that i can load multiple files into easily please.
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problem with additional account on orange webmail
Hi, I just decided to add our additional email accounts to orange webmail. First one went on ok and was checked but for some reason I cannot add another one from the same email provider (yahoo). First one added is relatively new but the one I cannot add is quite a few years old. Any ideas out there?
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Recondioned Gateway laptop
Just wanted your views on a Gateway Laptop. Have you heard of make? Is it any good? Costs £270 & I wanted it for Xmas box for child doing GCSE's.
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Text I type is jumping
Every now and then the text I type jumps around. How can I stop this?
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internet keeps turning off
hi can anyone please help me, up until yesterday the laptop was working fine, then all of a sudden the internet turns off and says no connection, when i click on diaganose it says check your firewall? then i have to turn of the wireless router and start again, the thing i have done differently was turn on my sons laptop…
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Problems with Xbox Live, Homeplug, and O2 router
Hi - I've just bought an Xbox 360 and connecting it via Homeplug, but it won't work properly - it has to download an update, and it's literally stayed on 1% for an hour. The internet is connected, as a test showed, but it's just going really slow on downloads. This same problem occurred when I had a PS3 - downloads would…
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BBC 2 on analogue
:confused: I live in South Wales and have just replaced my vhs recorder with a new one in our spare bedroom. I can't get BBC2 through either the tv or the vhs but can get BBC1, ITV, S4C and CHANNEL 4 through my set top aerial on both Any ideas ?
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Woo hoo - BT Connection Manage for Mac is released
BT Connection Manager for Mac allows Mac users to make use of the USB dongle provided for £9.99 with 18 months x 1GB worth of access (as part of their current BT Total Broadband signup offers) . Woo hoo!…
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quick wireless question
how do i make the wireless connection the default rather than modem hope this isn't too taxing for a friday afternoon thanks nick :beer:
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TV transmitter and freeview confusion...
I was getting my TV signal via Virgin analogue signal (free) until the 1st Sept but they have now switched this off in my area so I need to work out how to get TV via another route! I live in centralish Edinburgh so can theoretically get signal from either Craigkelly (1 deg eg north, 14km away) or Black Hill (259 deg eg…
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Trojan on Google Chrome - help please
Hi Techie Guys Please bear with me if this is a stupid question but I don't know the answer and I'm hoping someone else does. A couple of days ago whilst on the internet (Internet Explorer on Vista) a message flashed up about a Trojan virus. I closed IE and all programs and did a whole disk scan using my McAfee free…
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Tried everything to get rid of this virus.....
....... all to no avail. Here is the Malwarebytes log: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.39 Database version: 2421 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 11/09/2009 06:17:49 mbam-log-2009-09-11 (06-17-49).txt Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|) Objects scanned: 122028 Time elapsed: 38 minute(s), 19 second(s) Memory Processes Infected: 0…
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O2 Samsung Mobile profile setting APN
Hi I am trying to set up my o2 sim card samsung mobile so that I can check yahoo emails / send photos direct to facebook etc.. I am in the email profiles section, have created a profile called yahoo - however, not sure what to add for APN? I take it my login id is my full yahoo email address? And what do I put for DNS1 /…
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Keyboard problems
I am hoping someone can help! I bought a new Dell laptop a couple of weeks ago (loaded with Vista) and I am having keyboard problems. When I use Microsoft office etc. everything is fine. However, when I try to complete online forms or type messages on the internet, e.g. on sites like this or even hotmail I have keyboard…
