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Can I get rid of anything on the laptop?
I'm hopefully abandoning Windows soon and switching to Ubuntu - just need to get all my spreadsheets working on Open Office. In the meantime I hoped I could tidy up the rest of the laptop. I've defragged with Perfectdisk to make more space for a decent sized partition and got rid of quite a lot of unwanted stuff but the…
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iPad 10W USB Power Adapter US to UK charging
Was planning on buying an iPad as visiting the US next month. However have since found out that the $499 US price is subject to sales tax of 9.5% in San Francisco so its not looking like such a bargain and may well just end up buying in the UK for £429. One question though - if I did buy in the states I would get a 10W USB…
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Autocad LT 2010 (64bit) will not run on Windows 7 64bit?
hi ther i installed autocad LT 2010 (64bit) my windows 7 64bit machine. when i come to lauuch the program i get " [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Autocad 2010 64bit 'Unable to start correctly' (0xc000007 b)"[/FONT] I am the computer administrator
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What is the Tablet PC Input Panel?
Hi folks. An icon for Tablet PC Input Panel has just started appearing in the Windows 7 notification area on my computer, which is not a tablet PC. Does anyone what could have caused this, such as a Microsoft Windows Update, or installation of some third party software such as O2 Broadband? Is this feature needed? Or can I…
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Format hard drive and reinstall Win XP
Hi Ideally want to totally clear my PC and reinstall Win XP. PC wouldn't boot into Windows but following reinstall of Win XP, driver paths are corrupt and internet connection not recognised etc. I have recent back ups of all my files and folders and I have install disks for the programs I want to reinstall. When I try to…
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Television And Online Video
I've just been watching a little online video via my new Sony Bravia kdl 32ex403 television and I'd like to sign up to the 'Love Film' service, but I have a few concerns and would like some advice from those who have tried this type of online service and what they think of it. While watching some of the trailers Blu Ray…
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Cheaper printing tips
The computer magazine PC Advisor has a useful article on getting the most from your printing/printer and saving money:- http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3227304&pn=1
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Computer Pause
What is the possible causes of my pc deciding to pause before it goes to anything I click on to. Plenty of space left on my hard drive only used about a quarter of it, 4gig of memory, running Windows XP Home edition SP3. It was running just fine click on something and it was there in an instant, now it has to think about…
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should i download google chrome toolbar
Thanks to the great advice on here, i have uninstalled avg and installed avast, changed my email provider to gmail and gone into statup and unticked a load of boxes so my computer is running a lot better now.:j I am getting asked quite a lot to install google chrome toolbar. Should i do this, and what bennfit would it be.…
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code for ford 4000rds model no m059589
please help need code for ford radio/tape player for my van code M0559589
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XD corrupt card-help required
Just back from Holiday and our digital camera (Olympus FE160) with 2 GB xd card keeps requesting formatting when powered up and our pictures appear lost. I am sure it is possible to recover the holiday pics with a recovery programme, can anyone help in suggesting or recommending one many thanks in anticipation. Dave
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PSP Photo x2 + color profile mismatch?
I've just tried to open some black and white photographs (done as TIF's) in my Corel PaintShopPro Photo x2 program and get the following pop-up box: Color profile mismatch (Yellow triangle with exclamation mark inside) The document's colors were converted to the working space Embedded EPSON Gray-Gamma 2.2 Working: sRGB…
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What can I do with computer parts?
I got myself a computer in 2007. I now have a laptop and my computer is far too slow (1Gb ram) to use. What can I do with the parts of the computer please? Would rather not just chuck it.
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Problem receiving Mac photo attachments
Hi, I'm an XP Pro user (latest MS updates) running Outlook 2003 (similarly up to date) as my email client. A friend of mine is a Mac user and has been trying to email me some photographs. He's apparently using a Mac app called iPhoto. He emails me a photo from iPhoto and I receive the email. However on my system what he…
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Canon Pixma ip300
Apologies if I am duplicating a question already asked:o I have bought a new laptop & wanted to install the above printer. I cannot find the installation disc anywhere. I have tried the Canon website but can't find a download to enable me to install it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. SL
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virgin wireless router ..
i'll probably ask this in the technical forum as well as i think it counts in both :) rejoined virgin from sky recently, and had the installation yesterday. the engineer gave me the wireless router before he left as I said I was happy to set it up myself. later on, when i decided to do it I realised that it was actually…
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carnt add music
why carnt i add music track to slide show im doing in picasa:mad: iv tried and tried , its loaded but when i play the slide show its not there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ubunta
hi,ive just installed ubunta,can anyone tell me how i open downloads? im want to download avast and a few other programs i had on xp? also how can the size of the page content be made bigger?,the text is very small. thanks
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WARNING: Nvidia display driver.
OK, tonight i download the newest display driver from nvidia uk. the most recent driver is dated 15/06/2010 257.XX international driver. after a troublesome intallation (previous driver removed and restarted before new one) i wanted to set up my 3d graphics for call of duty modern warfare 2 under manage 3d settings-program…
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Magnifier and Narrator
A friend is using Vista and finds that the maginifier and narrator comes on each time is turned on. Please can you tell me how to turn them off. Thanks so much.
