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Xbox disc ****ed
My idiot son and his idiot mate knocked over my Xbox with MW2 in it and scratched a big ring in it, permanently ****ing it. Where's the best place to try and get it repaired please?
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laptop womy finish defragmenting
I have a laptop running Vista It seemed to take forever running defrag I dont like vista's defrag tool because you cant see the progress so yesterday I installed Pinform Defragger Its been running for around 14 hours and its only up to 66%. I think its taken about 4 hours to move up a 1 per cent You can see that its still…
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Cheap Back Up Router?
Currently having broadband problems and to save the ISP and BT both saying they haven't got a problem. I'm thinking a cheap back up modem might be worth having. Any ideas which will do the job on the cheap cheap (won't be used on routine basis) and from where.. Many thanks
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Lost Product key
In 2008 My wife was given a copy of office professional plus 2007 by her college. This was for the Dell laptop they gave everyone on the course It's a nice shiny genuine disk. Also with it was a piece of paper with the volume licensing key on it. We need to re-load the disc on the new hard drive after a replacement hard…
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New motherboard?
Hi My sons acer laptop was 3 months old when he switched it on and got nothing - as it was still under waranty it was sent away to the tec guys (It had been bought online from dixons). The very nice people sent it back and said that it needed a new mother board and it had been replaced free of charge. Everything was fine…
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My @ button has swapped places!!!!!!
hi My @ button in no longer on the ' key but has swapped places with the " key on the no. 2 key. how can i change it back? I have tried control panel and then regional language and set it to uk english but still it has now gone back to normal. any help appreciated thanks Yoshii
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Product Design Software - recommendations?
Howdi Chaps, I'm searching the net as I type - but after thoughts + opinions of the techy lot :) I'm after some software what I can design a product in. The final design needs to be sent to a factory who will create a mould. Now, I'd normally pay an expert for something like this - but essentially it's a 'ball' with a…
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Combofix Warning
posted by Bleepingcomputer on 23/1/2010 As many of of you know ComboFix has been pulled due to bug that causes legitimate files to be deleted. For those that have been affected, you would have noticed many deletions taking place as ComboFix was running, and your desktop would be blank. For users of Windows XP, you may…
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what's the best program for finding deleted files?
It's lots of photos that got wiped when a computer decided to reinstal windows, then the computer was used for a couple of months after that. Obviously it's not garanteed they'll be retrievable but what would be the best program to try?
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Website problems - 1and1
I have very limited knowledge of web building and packages - apart from that I can set up my own websites using web builders :o I was with Fasthosts, but decided it was looking a bit dated and I decided to move to 1and1. Big mistake. I have had no end of problems, which I have listed below - I have been waiting for weeks…
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the original sims
Does anyone know if the original sims works on Windows 7
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sky freeview plus
i use a sky sat card to receive freeview channels. i would like to buy a plus box but having looked at the boxes on line i cannot see card slots. so, can a sky sat user use a plus box? if so how and what box? i live in a poor reception area, cannot get freeview
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1 itunes account on 2 different computers?
We currently have a desktop with an itunes account which we use for both mine and my wife's ipod. We have itunes set to manually sync to manage the music going onto each ipod. Wife now also wants a laptop - is it possible to have the same itunes account on both the desktop and the laptop? How would this work in reality…
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Hard drive problem
Hi - my 2.5 year old Dell Vostro laptop (running Vista Business) took a bit of a knock today and I'm a bit worried about it. I have run the checkdisk program and all seems ok. However, when I restarted Windows, it failed to start up properly. After running startup repair, it started normally (albeit a little slow).…
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Help on best router for xbox gaming please!
Hi, We are having major probs with our connection and running 2 xboxes and a laptop at same time. My husband and son both play at same time and one of them always get kicked out the game as their connection so bad. Have upgradede to virgin 20mb which made things worse and when we called virgin they said it was because we…
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Rules in Mac Mail
I use Mail on Snow Leopard and have been using rules for a while to automatically sort my incoming mail. I've just signed up to a mobileme trial and was expecting the rules to still apply but everything just goes into the inbox. I notice that my old ymail account was shown as a POP account and mobileme is showing as IMAP.…
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Freeview signal - Help Please
Hello We have recently purchased a Freeview ready TV, I have plugged it in today and scanned the channels as per instructions, the signal is terrible. We were using a set top box previously which worked fine and the signal was perfect. I am confused, why does the set top box have perfect signal but the freeview ready TV…
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New pc with router
Hi can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my new downstairs pc to connect to the internet using the router. I am using the router on a different pc now so its obviously working. I just need the downstairs PC to use the connection. It is plugged in to it but what settings do I need to do ? I know the ISP username and…
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Connecting Laptop to TV
I've managed to connect my Dell inspiron laptop to my Pannasonic TV but the only problem I have now is that I cannot get a full screen picture on my TV. Can anyone offer any advice about whether I need to adjust the settings on my laptop or TV. Thanks
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windows error message - help please
Hi all you techie's, Help please....I normally use Firefox but needed to use IE for something. I did this successfully but then when I closed IE I got an error message "memory corruption in windows process heaps"...have I got a problem? If so, is it serious and how do I fix it. I have a lot of photo's on there (backed up…
