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Spam/identity fraud e mails?
I have just received a couple of "dodgy" e mails (which I have not opened). I say dodgy, because appear to be from my e mail address, the spelling is exactly the same. On previous occasions I have had e mails with a similar address to my own, but these latest ones concern me. I have right clicked and checked the message…
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X-box Live via a Dongle
Sorry, i know nothing about this whatsoever. And apologies if it's posted in the wrong box. My sister has no phone line but has a contract on a virgin dongle, her son wants to connect x-box live, can anyone give any help how she goes about connecting. Thanks in advance :beer:
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Recommendations for a phone, mini laptop to browse and email?
Hi, I'm wondering if I shoould get a blackberry or a phone, mini laptop as I'm constantly working on the net, sending emails, replying to people, applying for jobs, I work in promotions fulltime so it's a case of constantly applying. So essentially I need a phone that is functional as a mini computer, I can't afford much…
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Turbo Lister Help
Hi! I would be grateful to anyone with any experience of Turbo Lister to shed some light on my situation please. Yesterday I unsuccessfully tried to instal Auctiva but it wouldn't generate a ticket, so I abandoned the idea. I then tried to set up Turbo Lister by running the programme, not saving it (don't know if this is…
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can not send emails from my email domain name over my isps smtp server
Hi there i can not send emails from my own private email address over my isps ( the post office) smtp server (smtp.mypostoffice.co.uk) i have got my post office email address setup correctly and i am able to send and receive fine my domain name email address incoming working fine but obviously can not send any out. i use…
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VIRUS WARNING - ADOBE READER "Error" - DO NOT CLICK "OK"
My PC got nailed by a trojan/virus whatever yesterday (Tues lunchtime). Searching the net for details and fixes revealed the same or a very similar intrusion appears to be affecting a lot of people recently and some MSEers have reported exactly the same in this very forum. It didn't trash any data but was rather alarming…
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Thought Marty J, Leopard and others would just love this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FnACj25xM If you have ever heard of the lonely island you will know what this is a parody of! Enjoy!
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facebook problems?
hi, my daughter has just had this new laptop on the government scheme http://www.xma4ha.co.uk/Brands/Brands_Toshiba.aspx and is having problems trying to use facebook (i know I know) - on the lil farm application it works okay for a while then crashes out or blocks up, and on the aquarium one it wont load just crashes…
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Recommendations for decent MFP around £100
So, I know I am not going to get something that makes me the coffee in the morning :D But it's a minefield! Need colour, does not need to be networked, print/scan/copy, around£100 Seen a few I like (do not mind wireless or USB) but reviews on all seem to be mixed, so if anyone has any personal reccs, much appreciated.:D…
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Recommendations for new external hard drive, please!
Hi guys, I officially have the worst luck with technology, ever. After catching my foot in the cable between my laptop and my seagate external hard rive, which resulted in the latter hitting the ground and breaking, I was then using a sata drive and old hard drive to do the same back up I had been trying to do, only to…
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Best replacement for Quicken personal finance ?
I have used quicken on XP for years and found it exellent & simple to use for forward planning, reports & bank reconciliation, splitting costs etc. What is the best replacement software around with similar functionality ?
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Changing internet provider + e-mail address
A bit of advice/help please. I want to move to a cheaper internet provider, but am worried that i'll lose access to my BT e-mail address. Hundreds of people/companies have it, and I'd never be able to remeber them all to give them a new address. Would I still have a "live" e-mail with BT if I moved? If so, would it be…
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Sat Nav for Europe..
Hi All I'm off to Holland in the summer and am just looking around for a good sat nav that includes europe maps. It would be great if the maps were free, but realise this is probably pushing it these days!! any advice?? ta
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AVG help please
Just noticed that my free AVG hasn't got free ID protection is that something you have to pay for
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Defragging help please
Probably being a thicko here but I am using pirifrom defraggler to defrag my puter - horrified to see it needs 55% defragmentation - thing is its been on for about 5 hours now and I see that the defragging has sort of stuck at 30%. Am I being stupid here, but when I leave it and come back hours later, the puter has gone…
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Ordered Compaq 615 notebook, now out of stock and..
The company are offering to send an Acer Extensa 5625z as an alternative. I'm not at all technically minded and I'm not sure if I should accept this or not. (The order is through buymobilephones.net and is a 'free' gift along side a mobile phone contract). The Lady from buymobilephones.net says that the 2 laptops are the…
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Refreshing Virgin basic channels?
We have been using Freeview on our new tv until we got a different tv given today, which doesn't have Freeview. So we plugged the Virgin box back into the tv and half of the channels are missing! Does anyone know how to rescan/refresh the box to get all the channels we should be getting? Thank you. Saz x
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New Printer needed - What sort?!
Hey Folks, My old faithful Lexmark, colour/black printer Z60 has finally passed away after nearly 5yrs of fantastic service, which i only paid £30 pounds for when brand new which included all necessary cables! So, now i'm looking for a new printer. How expensive are they?! :eek: I literally want a basic colour/black…
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How to stop all these unwanted additions into my e-mail address book
I regularly receive jokes which circulate around on e-mail. Whilst I'm happy to receive them I am less than happy with hundreds of recipients' addresses who I don't know from Adam being automatically added to my e-mail address book. How can I stop this happening? I'm on Outlook Express. There's an "Add to my Address Book"…
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Help with minimising data please
Hi i've just bought a 3 mobile 12gb dongle and I want to try and make it last as long as I can, i've turned of images when i'm browsing, and i read about turning of automatic updates and then turning them back on when you have the bandwidth,and then it suggests changing settings to headers only ,can anyone explain what i…
