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Refilling Laser cartridges - Easiest to do
Hi, I want to buy a new/secondhand mono laser printer. Hoever as new cartridges cost a fortune it is important that the cartridges are easily refillable. I have read that some manufacturers make cartridges that have heads that refuse to print after a set number of pages etc. Please can anyone recommend a mono laser printer…
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I want to put a new hard drive in my pc
Ok, i have a desk top pc, inside there are 3 hard drives, i have windows XP on each, however one hard drive is only about 20 gig another is about 50 and the one i use is 110gig. now what im thinking is buying another hard drive maybe 200 gig or so and take my little 20 gig one out that i do not use. without taking my pc to…
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Spybot not working & laptop slow
Hi Please can you help again! Think something is up with my laptop have run malware & log showed nothing in process of starting avg scan spent 6 hours running spybot in the end aborted as was stuck on something named virtumonde is this bad? As I do lots of shopping! Please be patient with me not an expert like you good…
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Help my laptop is broken
Urgently need to fix my laptop. Kids were on it, they said a box came up shaking and saying warning the volume has gone. I tried to turn it off and it wouldn't. It ran out of battery and when I charged it and tried to start it, it would not boot up. I can get safe mode but when I took it back to a recovery point it didn't…
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google chrome
Hiya having a bit of a problem with chrome taking just forever to load web pages - any suggestions??? - or anyone else having the same problem??? :beer:
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Problems connecting to websites
HI All Hope you can help me, I bought my husband a brand new Dell netbook which he has had for about 2 weeks, noticed yesterday that I am ok to connect to google and a few other websites but when I google for somthing and then click on the link it either comes up with a page saying OOPS this link is broken DNS error-…
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Windows 7 user log on problem
OH and I have our own user accounts. We usually just stay logged on and then use the 'switch user' option. Last night OH tried to switch from my acount to his and got a black screen. We can see the white cursor but nothing else, we have to ctrl/alt/del to get out of the screen. Only thing that has changed is a new router,…
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Unable to send mail from Outlook Express
Hi all I'm using OE as a mail client for my Gmail account on IMAP. I've followed the instructions on the Gmail page for the port numbers, etc to set up the incoming and outgoing ports and can receive mail OK. However, it won't let me send any mail from either my Gmail or Tiscali account. I get error 0x800CCC0B. I can send…
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Internet Explorer will not display
How do I get Internet Explorer to display its webpage? http://uk.msn.com/ When it comes up I get Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. and some things to try. Tried to do all that Nothing. I am not sure what IE i am running but don't know how to check that either. (I am older and not techie minded I do know how to…
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where can i get free music?
Im looking to download free music..legally and royalty free, say instumentals etc were's best 2 look 4 this kinda stuff?
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Can anyone help with network printing on an eeepc 2g and linux?
My daughter has just got a eeepc2g and I am trying to sort out the printer element - thanks to help from a previous thread I have setup printer sharing and her netbook is showing the printer listed however I can't seem to get the drivers installed for it? When I try and download the drivers from the brothers website, they…
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Suspicious script & PC behaviour
When i boot up my PC and reach the desktop, a DOS screen appears very briefly with some text which I can't quite read in time. I have noticed that i can't update my anti-viruses (AVG, AVAST etc) as it refuses to connect to internet and also certain programs i have downloaded recently don't start-up at all....as if they are…
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A Youtube question.
Occasionally when i view youtube and lets say I rate a song by someone and pass a comment, occasionally i will get an email from that person asking to be a friend. I click the yes button in my inbox on youtube, but where do i find these 'friends' to keep in touch to see what other videos they have done. I usually look for…
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Can't get rid of Creative Zen popup: please help!
I used to own a Cretive Zen Vision M MP3 Player. I hadn't used it for a long time before I sold it on, so I reinstalled the software onto my laptop to allow me to remove all my music etc. off the player. I then deleted all the programs, but ever since have had a small box popup on my desktop screen saying 'Gentle reminder:…
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deleted DVD/CD bits in error
OMG trying tounderstand how to get a memory stick to work which didnt I saw +clicked something that said remove hardware safely which I did. Ive just removed my DVD/CD bits. OOps OMG what have I done. Know I have Vista but not the version. no cd to reinstall cos bought puter 18 months ago 2nd hand. HELP please
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desktop computer ? damaged by the power cut last night?
we had a series of short power cuts last night- no obvoius surge. The computer then decided not to start- we have windows xp DELL you press the start button- it tries to load up windows ad you get a message that either this file is missing or curropted \ WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM it suggests we use the windows set up…
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SAS and Malwarebytes Scanning
Does it matter if I only use quick scans for Super Anti Spyware, and Malwarebytes? There is a huge difference in time. Is there a big difference in finding spy/malware?
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Can anyone recommend reliable DVD playback software
I have a Dell Dimension PC which came supplied with Dell Cineplayer for watching DVDs. Recently Cineplayer stopped working and as far as I can tell this is because of a bug which makes it incompatible with later releases of Windows (Cineplayer is OEM'd by Roxio/Sonic Software for Dell). Trying to run a DVD I get an error…
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Help with setting up outlook express pls
Hi i already have windows mail on my vista lap top and was trying to set up my mail on the xp desk top i thought it was all the same and put in pop3 , imap and something else i cant remember now but deff my email address and password for aol however i click start menue on desk top then email outlook express and i get a…
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Really, Really Dense Mobile Phone Question
I currently have a really old Sharp phone on Vodafone PAYG. The other day I was lucky enough to win a Sony Ericsson Satio Touch phone which was part of a goodie bag that was given to all Bafta nominees. The Baftas were sponsored by Orange, and although I've put my Vodafone Sim into the phone, I can't access the internet…
