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Cant upload songs from itunes onto ipod?
Hi, I am going away for the weekend and wanted to take my ipod with me. I have a new computer and had all my songs saved onto an external hard-drive. I have uploaded them all onto itunes, it says I have 4210 songs on there, but it wont sync them onto my ipod. It did say i cant have two itunes for one ipod, then deleted all…
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Reinstall Vista or upgrade to 7?
Hi all. My laptop has reached the inevitable point in which it feels slow, cluttered and its 'quirks' are p*****g me off... I've not been following reports on W7 so would like to ask if it would be wise to stick with vista or upgrade to 7? Either way I'm formatting the laptop and installing a fresh copy of the OS. I'm told…
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Problem with eBuyer.com
Hey guys i'm new here, and cant seem to find the right thread to post this ... I recently bought 4Gb of Corsair Gaming RAM from eBuyer, £79.99 all in, with delivery... It arrived on 7th Jan, i installed it, but soon after was getting crashes and blue screens all over the place, did a memtest on it, and that returned 14…
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microsoft excel help required
I have microsoft office 2003 student edition which up until tonight has been working fine. I bought a new laptop in november - upgraded it to windows 7 without problem, and installed my office 2003 on there. the laptop had a trial of office 2007 but ive never bothered with that, I have just tried to open an excel…
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Laptop won't boot.
FIL's IBM R50e laptop won't boot into XP. It gets past the "Access IBM" splash then does nothing else. Also hangs trying to get into safe mode. I can get into the factory reset part and I can get into the recovery DOS prompt. I've tried CHKDSK /p, FIXBOOT and copying over SYSTEM and SOFTWARE files from a couple of restore…
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Which Sat nav do i get?
I want to get myself a new satnav, one with europe on as well. I have a medion gopal but i cant find any updates and i need europe now anyway. A friend has recomended a garmin nuvi, and another friend has recomended a tomtom. Ive looked on both sites and they can be updated, so both are equal. BUT which one is better and…
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Email problems - Socket error 10051
Hi I'm having trouble accessing my emails from home. When I try and access them from home I get socket error 10051. I've tried webmail, but I just get Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at [mydomainname] (I've got my own domain registered) However, I don't have any problems getting my emails on my phone or…
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downgrading toshiba tecra A9 to XP
I have a Toshiba tecra laptop A9 series. It came with Vista business but came with an XP downgrade CD. I do not like vista much and want to downgrade to XP. Some people have told me that this may be difficult or screw up my computer as the drivers are different. I am no computer expert and don't want to downgrade if its…
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which laptop please?
Hi, I need a new laptop and as the catalogue is offering buy now pay next year, I thought I woulod get one.. Which one would you choose? http://www.kays.com/vaio-154-in-nw-laptop/645905018.prd?cm!!!!!o&_requestid=99906&browseToken=/q/ph5421e or…
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getting a new windows 7 pc what do i do first
i have searched for a general window 7 thread but can not find one i just want to pick your brains as you are all so helpful & brainy ;) :rotfl: i should be picking my pc next week from scan what to i do first - a full backup so it can be restored if nec - do i need any new software or is there something included in…
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Easy Cleaner
Easy Cleaner, it cleans out unnecessary files on your pc. is this a safe thing to do with this program? has anyone tried this and their pc been ok afterwards? I didnt want to take the chance of doing this in case.
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What to do after avast finds viruses
Hi, i have had problems with my pc running slowly and crashing on the avira virus scan. I decided to remove the avira and replace with avast. Ran a full scan through and found 12 infected files, Avast recomended me to do a full boot scan so i followed that through. Not sure if the pc is virus free- i suspect not as i have…
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Best MP3 player (or MP3/MP4) for £30-£40-ish? Too little?
Can I get a decent MP3 or MP3/MP4 player for just £30-£40-ish? I could go a little higher. Ideally I'd like something that can play videos - WMV, AVI, etc - and not just a proprietary format, that I have to convert using the player's software. Is this too much to ask? I'm dreaming here - but MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, OGG, JPEG,…
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HP Pavillion DV9700 Black Screen
I've been given a HP Pavillion DV9700 to repair that has the black screen issue. Apparently this is a know issue with defective NVidia cards installed in this series of laptops. The laptop is just out of warranty and HP are washing their hands of it. Can they legally do this? As this is a known issue, so shouldn't they be…
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Microsoft Office Question
Please can someone tell me if Microsoft Office is the samer as Microsoft word as I am about to do an OU course and only have a older Word not office as the course requires will that be ok? Thanks
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malware log
hi all, please could someone look at this log and tell me if i have to do anything with it . thankyou Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.44 Database version: 3608 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 21/01/2010 18:09:09 mbam-log-2010-01-21 (18-09-09).txt Scan type: Full Scan…
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problems with i pod one week out of guarantee.
I wonder whether any one could give me any advice on where i stand. Last christmas I bought an I pod classic for my ds. I paid £175 for it and it was literally one week out of guarantee when the wheel broke on it. My son took it into the apple shop in the new year as he was buying a new apple lap top and signing up for an…
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new to nintendo dsi
i am going to america march/april and i would like to buy a dsi.i see that there is a new version to be released the XL. i have a few questions as a newbie are the games region specific as are dvds etc will the console be different in the us. i accept that the charger will be us but can that be used with a uk adapter. any…
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Which is the best internal DVDRW writer for the PC to buy?
OK guy I currently have two other threads going here but I thought i should make this my final thread to make things clear. Which is the best internal DVDRW writer for the PC to buy? I am so confused as there are so many out there, could someone please help. many thanks for any suggestions and replies.
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Reinstalling Windows XP any hints?
Hi I have spent the last 7-10 days rescuing data from my hard drive and now want to re install Windows XP. Has anyone got any hints please? I only have a set of recovery discs. Also can I run Word 2002 and Word 2007 on the same computer ? TIA Dx
