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How on earth do you set up a website?
Hello everyone, I would like to set up a website - I have NO IDEA how to do this, put it this way, I'm not the most 'techically advanced' person in the world. Anyway, I'm determined to do this - is there a dummy guide anywhere, that can help you through, for e.g how to buy the website name (I know what I want to call it!!)…
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Laser printer for uni
I am thinking of buying a laser printer when i goto uni this year because it might work out cheaper than 5p/20p per A4 page (black/colour) for the uni's printers, as well as being more convienient when I need to print something from my halls of residence pc. do you guys and gals know of any good lazer printers or other…
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Almost readable Vista COA
I have a HP Vista laptop which has a very deteriorated Vista COA sticker on the base. Any ideas how to get round this. There are 3 or 4 chars which I just can't see properly. Would HP keep a record of these COAs. The HP Service Tag is in perfect condition.
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Setting up a network?
Hi I have a pc and a laptap and a wireless internet connection. There are quite a lot of files that I want to be able to access on both computers. At the moment I keep these files on a pen drive and move it depending which computer I'm on. This current system is slightly annoying and I was wondering if it's possible to set…
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Upgrading Tiger to Snow Leopard..worked like a dream!
After endless problems with an Epson printer I've discovered my problems lie with the Tiger operating system on my MacBook. I've resisted the urge to upgrade, well, because I like Tiger but alas the time has come. Went into the Apple shop today to buy Leopard but was amazed when they said I can upgrade directly with Snow…
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Like a challenge ?? !! Can you find me this spec laptop ?
Addressing shortfall of expectations with my 10 " netbook (screen to small for my old eyes !).. and inability to watch streaming videos... Can anyone recommend / find me ..... 13 inch (max 14 inch) lightweight as possible XP ..( stick with what i know and can use my Office 2003) suitably specced so i can watch streaming…
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is it possible for a isp to block a router?
I have just transfered from AOL to plusnet and I was using a NETGEAR DG834G v3 router which worked great (it was provided by AOL). When I went typed in http://192.168.0. 1 to access the router with the default username and password printed on the back on the router it didn't work, so I wasn't able to change the router…
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printer ink help!
Might be in the wrong place but looking for help with my printer. It is a Dell A920 and the ink is ridiculously priced, so i read a forum on here and discovered lexmark ink worked as well in this printer. Previous threads said lexmark 16 and 26 were compatible. Now this might be my mistake as i ordered a remanufactured…
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Broadband Dongles
Hi, as I am having problems with my ISP, I am considering moving to a broadband dongle to use with my laptop, which I use mainly at home. Does anyone have any advice on this subject please?.
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Avira updates today - problems?
Anybody else having problems getting Avira updates? By the way, I'm finding the free Avira to be vastly superior to AVG. Picking up more stuff on virtually every computer, I put it on. Oh and Nod32 seems to have a fairly large hole in it where a HijackThis log picked up some 200 names of banks (01s) where redirection was…
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External hard drive for Macbook
Hi all. For the last two years i have stupidly had my Mac and not backed it up with anything. The time has come to buy an external hard drive for it. The question is which one ? It doesn't have to have massive capacity, and i wouldn't want to spend a fortune on it. It's a slightly older Mac (10.4.11 ) with firewire if that…
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How do I listen to a podcast?
yes, it's an absolute beginners question. Most of my radio I listen to live, or catch it on the Iplayer. However, I really want to listen to Richard Herring and Andrew Collins' show, which is only available online, as a podcast. How do I download it, and what software do I need to play it? thanks already!
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DVD-R or DVD+R
Im wanting to buy some blank dvd's but im not sure whether to go for dvd-r or the +r, if it helps the dvd would be played in a dvd, is verbatim the best brand to get
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Laptop screen mists up
Hi i have aquired a medion laptop and it works great apart from the screen. Now and then the screen will go white as though it mists up, it starts from the edges and goes inwards towards the centre, but then if i move the screen it will flicker and come back to normal? Any ideas? i dont think there is anything wrong with…
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How do I find my Office 2007 Activation key?
I've got office 2007 installed on my computer. I've lost the e-mail with the confirmation code, so is there anyway of finding out what the code is? Thanks!
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msn and hotmail
never had this problem before and not too hot on computers. have had the same hotmail account for ages but just today and trying to access my emails and it wont let me. keeps saying my password is wrong and I need to reset my password. Right I went through the process of resetting my password and i now need to click on the…
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Windows XP not genuine
Hi there Bought a s/h computer with xp installed on it,everything works fine I was asked if i wanted to update windows which i did and microsoft would not update as my windows xp is not a genuine and they want £95 for me to upgrade. Has anyone else come across this and what should I do. Thanks Dave
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Where has my firefox sign off box gone!?!
Hi all, I have recently updated to firefox 3.5.2. Before updating, when I closed firefox a small box would come up asking if I wanted to delete cookies, history etc. Where has it gone? Anyway to get it back? Cheers for any help. Si
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Samsung J700
With my old Nokia I lliked the ability that I could save my text messages on my PC...the phone however was a number of years old and had started to stop working at times so got a cheapy Samsung J700.... Snce I bought it 3 months ago what is fustrating is that any messages over 1 message in length EMS messages can't be…
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laptop hangs when statred up sometimes please help
my medion laptop is about 3 years old now(specs 1.8ghz processeor 1gb ram widnows vista ) and when i start up windows sometimes it goes all the way through to the windows desktop then just hangs and doesent load the programs on startup (ie antivirus graphics card msn ) it wont let me click on anything tho the mouse can be…
