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Can anyone help with installing a scanner?
I've just bought a Canon Canoscan Lide 100, installed the software, re-booted as instructed, then plugged the scanner into a USB port. I have tried all 4 ports on my laptop and when I try to use the scanner my laptop says the device is not installed. I've re-booted again several times, checked all the USB ports work with…
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Internet Explorer ?
Hello all I have Firefox but need IE for certain things so can anyone point me in the right direction for a download and which to get ??? IE 6 or 7 thankyou :beer:
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search.iminent.com
Hi, my daughters home page on IE 7 has defaulted to search.iminent.com. Can anyone let me know what this site is about and can it be trusted?
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plug adaptor for digital radio
Hi, Sorry I have been trying to find this out by googling it, but... I have a Pure Evoke-2 digital radio but the power adaptor has broken and I'm trying to find a replacement. From the handbook it says it's a 230V AC to 9V DC mains power adaptor. Are there different types of 9V power adaptors or can I just buy any? I'm…
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Got a North AmericaSD card for Garmin sat nav but do not know how to use it.
Ive got a Garmin nuvi 200 and have bought SD micro card for City Navigator for North America. What do I do with it now - Ive put the sd card in the slot but it is not recognising america when I spell out the country. Do I have to be in america. I thought I would be able to programme in the destinations prior to us going…
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Adding adobe without Mcafee?
This may seem like a really easy thing to do but for the life of me I cannot seem to do it. I recently got rid of McAfee and went with Microsoft security essentials. After a virus infected my pc (turning off the microsoft antivirus software) I changed to AVG. However it seems that somewhere along the way adobe flashplayer…
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Trojan remover
can anyone recommend a free trojan remover, many thanks
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Firefox will not start after latest update
hi there firefox updates the other day but after restart and anytime i click the program i get Unresponsive script - script may be busy or stopped responding. script file ///C:/program%20file/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js,2309 what could be causing this issue and how can i resolve this , many thanks
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Sky+ hd
intend to upgrade to sky hd for the world cup. phoned today and offered £30 for to set up myself or £60 for an engineer to call. seems shame to waste £30 if it is easy, could anyone tell me if it is straight forward to set up like just swapping cables over and using HDMI lead. Thanks
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Possible refund on windows when purchasing PC
Quite an interesting read, and not something I had heard of (or even thought possible) until today. http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/59381 Basically, a person purchased a desktop from Dell, replaced his preinstalled version of windows for a version of linux (without activating it), and wanted a refund of the cost of…
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Weak WiFi at home - Do I need a bridge?
Hello all, the router at home is a netgear and is on the ground floor. My room is 2 floors up, on the attic conversion. Wifi works but it's very slow compared to the ground floor. Can anyone suggest the right equipment that I could put on the 1st floor to repeat/bridge/increase the signal? Thanks a lot
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Sky box question
Hi everyone. We have a Sky box, wave type, which we use without a card. Have put Channel 5 into extra channels but cannot see how to get regional ITV. It is currently on ITV central! Can I put another ITV onto extra channels?
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Help ! acer notebook blank screen after boot up
acer one notebook with Linux. When you start it up,-ACER screen comes up then ASPIRE screen, then comes up a blank black screen with cursor still there.
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IR mouse
I've hooked up my spare laptop to my TV in the 'boys room, got my wireless keyboard but want one of those infra red mice thingys to use that you point at the tv instead of using a mouse, can anyone recommend a reasonably priced one?
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Samsung C10 SD or Panasonic S26
Have decided we could do with a new camcorder for the hoilday we havn`t yet booked! Don`t want to spend lots, would like it to be small (our current one is a Canon and its 14 years old cost us £1000+ :( but the little tapes are all sat in a draw and it doesn`t connect to the computer also its a bit bigger than the new…
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Video and slides to DVD
Hi all, I have a set of 20 slides and some family videos which I would like to transfer to DVD. This company seem very competitive pricewise. Has anyone had any experience of them, please? http://www.easyslidescanning.com/?gclid=CP-Ts5Oji6ACFZ2Y2Aod4Wn1dw I can't do this myself and the video to DVD prices I'd been…
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Canon Smartbase 360 vista to windows 7 wireless network
Canon multipass mp360 printer attached and working via usb on desktop pc with vista. File & Printersharing on. On my new remote desktop PC with windows 7, I can see the printer as a wireless network device but cannot get the new PC to connect to it, when selected the New PC seaches for the drivers then goes on line to look…
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web site / blog
Hello all I have been advised to set up my own website with a blog. I have absolutely no clue how to go about this. Does anybody know any sites or anything that make it an easy to do project. I have looked here is this a good place to start? Any good books anybody can recommend to teach myself. I think my biggest fear is…
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Key in Wii!!!!
My 3 year old has just decided that it was a good idea to put the back door key into the Wii disk slot!! First off all I could hear the key rattle and after some poking with a steel rule!!! (i know I shouldn't have done!!) the key must be totally jammed as it's no longer rattling and disc's won't load! I know i've perhaps…
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Microsoft Word/Office 2007 for Windows 7
Hi, I'm not hugely computer literate, so please bear with me :) We recently bought a new PC with Windows 7 on but all our previous word documents wouldn't open unless you used the free trial of Office 2007. And, unless I'm doing something wrong, I couldn't find a way to open a new basic notebook or new word document…
