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Free photo editing software site reccommendations?
Hi, I never usually venture in here, its all a bit scary! Anyway, I used to have "professor franklin" photo editing on my pc but it got wiped in a clean up and I cant find the cd to reinstall. It wasnt great but it was a freebie years ago and di my very limited needs just fine. Can anybody point me in the direction of…
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Windows 7 / Vista Backup
I have 2 laptops, 1 runs Windows 7 and 1 runs Vista. I would like to use the built in Windows backup tool. Should I use a DVD R or a DVD RW? Or does it not make any difference?
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registry cleaner
Hi, can anyone recommend a free registry optimizer that I can download? Thanks. Fifi
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Monitor Recommendations
I have got an old sony vaio laptop (fs-215z) and although I like it a lot, it is a bit slow for things like BBC iplayer HD. As I have only ever used my laptop at home I'm thinking of going for a "deskcube" type system (eg https://secure.dnuk.com/systems/configure/d500.php ) with separate monitor, but there seems such a…
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NTL VS2000 problems.
Following a call and message on 1571, the phone has been flashing that there is a message (light on base and envelope on phone). However the phone's answer machine always been turned off. Turned on, checked (nothing) and even deleted but still flashing. Hasn't cleared with subsequent internal/external calls. Am at a loss!…
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Hijack This
Got a new second-hand laptop, everything seems ok - done a run with Malawarebytes which was fine, but there sees a bit of clutter that I'd like to clear. Would someone please check the following HijackThis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 17:16:24, on 20/02/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT…
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No sound from any cd playing in computer tray
Hi, can anyone help? Although my Windows XP computer plays speaker sounds - turning on/off computer and Internet sounds through the speakers, any CD's will not produce a sound. For some reason this has suddenly happened as this computer used to play the CD's and nothing has been changed in the set up but for some reason…
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My laptop wont start up!!
I have a 2 year old Dell and it has been fine. However when I switched it on today it comes up with error messages and says it has to repair. Now it seems to be asking me for the restore disk which I doint seem to have. It is Windows Vista. What can I do??
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USB pen drive with NO FLASHING LED
Does anyone know of any USB pen drives that DON'T have a flashing LED? I want one for my new headunit in my car and the flashing is very distracting when driving!
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random number generator
we are having a raffle in my local and i have been tasked with finding a rng. it would need to be able to generate between 1 - 500 and we would like to display it on a laptop filling the screen so everyone can see it. does anyone know of any software that would do what we want. btw..we are aware of other posts saying that…
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Increasing RAM. Is it possible?
I recently purchased this netbook http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B0033Y3FCU/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=560798&s=electronics How easy it to upgrade the 1GB to 2GB? Is it even recommended? I also have a Toshiba Equium U400-145 with a 2GB RAM but if possible would like to increase this but I'm unsure if it is…
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check disk help wanted, please
Laptop still playing up alot. I ran a full malwarebytes scan in safemode with networking but it wouldn't let me update first (got an error code). I also checked the hard disk for errors by doing the following: computer/right click on c: drive/properties/tools/error checking/click now unticked the 'automatically fix…
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HDMI Cable.
Do cheap HDMI cables do the same job as the dearer one's? I have seen the price of them from as cheap as a couple of pounds to as much as £70.00 +. Is there any difference or do you pay for what you get? It's for adding an Xbox onto an HD Tv. Many thanks Nicks
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Has anyone got a font called 'feel script' please?
Hi there, I'm after a special font called 'feel script'? Its £69 to buy so not at all MSE for my wedding invites! I've tried all the free font sites too.......but no luck. Wondered if any kind soul has it and can send it to me? Have posted on the wedding forum too, just thought I'd chance it over here. Thanks in advance!…
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Dell latitude CPi no power
Hello to all in the forum , I have a very old Dell CPi, with windows 2000 on it, only used for word processing the odd game etc, as it cant hold a charge via the battery it always has to be plug into the mains, which is fine for me as i have it on the desk. It isnt used for intenet as usb connection is broken. 2 weeks ago…
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Help
Hi I have just linked up my sony handycam to my computer which is running vista 32 bit. I managed to download video on to windows movie maker. I also have Roxio 2009 installed and when I switched to this to download the remainder of the video it did not recognise the video camera as being connected. When I switched back to…
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My Pictures Problem
hope someone can help me, when i go to upload a picture to ebay it always goes straight to "my pictures" when ideally i would like it to go straight to picassa as it would make things so much easier, how do i do i make picassa the default, im not very computer savvy so any help would be gratefully recieved, Many thanks
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uk govenment wants your scam/phishing emails
please forward every scam/phishing email you get from now to 26feb to http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/scamnesty/ hopefully we can get the government to finally start doing something to end all these scams. ps use phishfighting.com to send 500 fake replys to phishers eg fake bank emails !
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any good xbox live deals out there please?
my son's has just expired and need to renew asap. thanks
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Change from ethernet to wireless???
:cool: Hi folks. Recently I had to use AOL phone help to get reconnected to t'inbternet. During the phone help I had to use ethernet cable while the guy talked me through set up and changing some modem router settings, so when my internet connection came back on I thought everything would be fine,but,then when I removed…
