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Can I put a blog within my website?
Hi all, I'm not overly technical (that's putting it mildly!) and am currently building a website for my painting using one.com as a host. I would like to build a blog into the website, not a link to another site, but as a page on my site. Is this possible and if so could anyone point me in the direction of what to use and…
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Firefox titlebar turned Chinese??
OK this is not a real problem but it is weird and I just wondered if anyone had any clues as to what is causing this!! As per thread title, occassionally my Firefox title bar decides to change to Chinese text. I'm not really sure of any websites that cause it in particular, but I have not gone to any Chinese websites today…
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My experience with Windows 7.....
..... Hasn't been a good one so far. It installed fine, then i rebooted twice after installing graphics drivers and windows updates only to find that my CD drive was dead (not being detected in windows and not ejecting the tray) after booting into windows. I then rebooted only to find that it got stuck at the 'detecting…
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Why is MS office now saying it is not a genuine copy?
Since I had a virus on my computer and ran a lot of programs to get rid of it I keep getting a message saying my copy of MS office is not genuine. Any ideas why and how I can stop it? Thanks Barrie
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Is there an open source software sticky?
Hi I know there's already a lot of stickies in the Techie section. However, I've been looking for a thread on the best open source software as I know quite a bit about this sort of thing and use it for virtually everything, from openOffice to VLC to G.I.M.P. etc.. I was thinking that this could be a valuable, something…
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What has happened to my sky???
When i got up this morning and switched the tv on my sky seems to have gone it has done this previously where there is just a blue screen and I have in the end had to retune, but this morning the screen is just GREEN I have never seen that before plus my ordinary channels were not tuning, I have retuned the tv but it has…
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I need a good boot cd-one for the computer experts.
Hi there, I need a good downloadable boot cd that will enable me to boot into my computer and is able to see the hard drives and will be able to format them etc. I use to use the startup floppy disk (that I coped onto cd) but it is no good anymore for the large NTFS that I have. The reason I need it is after getting my…
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Printing A2 PDF file
Can anyone tell me how I can print an A2 PDF file out on A4 paper? There's a poster from the British Heart Foundation that I'm trying to print out to put up in my kitchen but its A2 size and I can't see how to print it:o I've tried saving it but I can't do that either. I'm using Foxit Reader 2.0 and trying to print on a HP…
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ALDI Computer ?
Hi,Aldi computer on sale today,Medion Akoya e4355(MD8341) price £399, are they any good,any advice on them,thank you.:A
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VLC Error
I keep getting this error message: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://E:\'. Check the log for details: I have tried all different Disk which work completey fine on the VLC player. It is only this disk. The disk is brand new. I have thought to myself that maybe disk is broke. I want to weigh up…
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SeeSaw.com a great place to watch TV
Another catchup and archived TV programme service. Its in beta and by invitation atm, registered and got invite within 24 hours. https://www.seesaw.com O yes covers BBC, Channel4 and Channel 5, sorry Corrie Fans.
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Problem with computer rebooting and losing cookies
This is really two problems, the first I have been battling with for some time. I assume the processor becomes overheated, perhaps when using too many systems. I notice it often happens when downloading multiple P2P files but this may be coincidence. The second is that when this happens, records of the some or all of the…
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Apple Educational Discount on iTouch?
My niece wants to buy an iTouch. She is attending school full time (A Levels). Is the Apple Educational Discount available on the iTouch, or does it only apply to the Macbook and iMac range? I can't see any info about this on the Apple website, it just says that not all products are available with the discount. Failing…
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thanks to bazzlad
I have microsoft security essentials and add aware on my computer, after reading Martin's email this week I installed A-squared free edition and ran a full scan, it found 2 trojans, one called Packed!IK and the other Downloader.Win32.Agent.cxuu!A2. following instructions I have quarantined them. As I am fairly computer…
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Do I need this program??
BT Broadband Desktop Help\btbb\BTHelpNotifier.exe runs on my computer I have a BT home hub (just upgraded to the black one) and this pops up everytime I boot up and this is the program that seems to be taking a while to load? Thanks in advance Niki
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New problems ..follow on from last post
Hi i was having problems with being disconected and thought it would be better that i start a new thread, my other thread is here... http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2239277 After finally geting through to stage 2 at AOL yesterday i was delighted only for it to backfire Tuesday, stage 2 said they were…
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Anything in these logs giving my wireless trouble?
I have had some issues with my wireless disconnecting when trying to do the smart updates for my pc tools firewall. Could someone advise on the logs below? HJT: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 21:53:12, on 03/02/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00…
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New digital camera
Could anyone recommend one for a budget of upto £150 please. I don't want a basic model as I want to start improving my skills but I don't want anything like a bridge or DSLR camera. Sorry this is a bit general, I have no idea what sort of spec to look for, e.g. MP size, optical/digital zoom, face detection etc etc. Some…
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Google search and text problem
I've moaned about this before but can someone explain why I receive so many American/NZ sites in my results? I didn't used to , my Google is still http://www.google.co.uk so why is it happening? (confused face..jeez , this is silly) Should canadian forims be coming up on the second page of results whent yping "cake"? My…
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How fast is your ADSL2+ broadband router?
Interesting little article for those of you who may be upgrading to ADSL2+ this year. Quite substantial speed differences in currently available routers. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4144-how-fast-is-your-broadband-router.html
