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laptop will not recognise wifi
Am with virgin broadband, they sent me wifi have run through instructions on disc to install and then it gets to the end but will not recognise hp laptop. Virgin said settings on laptop need to be changed? What settings and where do i find them, help please!
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Back button and others not working - confused
Have a new (ish) laptop runnings windows 7 and IE. Suddenly and for no reason at all (i hadnt changed any settings or anything) the back button has stopped working. Now today the favourites menu has stopped working too, i can access the drop down menu but when i try and press "add favourite" nothing happens. At first i…
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Charger for a Polaroid POGO?
Hi All - I bought a Polaroid Pogo a couple of months ago which is great but for the life of me, I cannot find the charger. I cannot seem to find anywhere who sell just the charger. Can anyone help me please?
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Windows 7 - Start Menu Problems
Not sure what's happened here but the contents of my Start Menu>All Programs list seem to have disappeared. For example, if I click on All Programs>Games the folder is empty yet I know I can access the games via another route. Similarly, there is no icon within the start menu for Windows Media Center - I have had to go…
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itunes & you tube - plz help
Hi, I need to find a song for a wedding. Ive looked on itunes and it doesnt exist. Ive found it on you tube, but although I can hear the song and watch the video, Im unable to actually transfer it onto my computer or into my itunes library. Can anyone help? Thanks, littlebird
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flags
this is a techie question, sort of, Was just watching the Spain v Switzerland match on TV and kept thinking there is something missing, Then suddenly it hit me "where have the half-way touchline flags gone" When did they stop using them?
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Locked out of hotmail
Please can someone help? I have forgotten my hotmail password and the reset process is sending me round in circles. I have sent the request to reset and I received a link on my alternative email address. However, when I click on the link it just sends me back to the sign in page. Then when I try to sign in again it says I…
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Printer Problem
I have a Photosmart C7280 All-In-One printer and I cannot get the collate action to work. If for instance, I want to print 3 copies of 3 documents. Without the 'collate' box checked, it prints 3x pages 3, 3x pages of 2, then 3x pages of 1. When I check the 'collate' box, it still prints out the same way. Any suggestion…
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dvd/cd drive
I have a Toshiba Satellite L300D laptop, and it can write cd's but not read them and read dvd's but not write them. Is this a software problem, or has my drive gone? If the drive has gone I'm assuming it will be expensive to fit a new one (in a laptop), and as I rarely take my laptop out of the house I'm thinking an…
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HP Photosmart installation problem
I have tried installing my HP Photosmart 8250 printer on a new PC several times, and after following all HP's recommended troubleshooting steps, the installer finally claimed to have successfully installed the driver & other software. The other software appeared successfully & works, but the printer does not appear in the…
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broadband local access only
Hi Had my laptop fixed and now cannot connect to the net by wireless as my broadband is shown as local access, tried a ethernet wire connection but just will not link either. Have another PC which can wireless connect just fine. Vista system and have tried to connect using it's tools without success - Thanks
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running .exe files
My son's laptop is installed with Windows Vista. Recently it has stopped opening .exe files, either from "program files" or shortcuts on the desktop. So cannot open MS-Word as a program, but can open individual documents. Also applies to Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Paint, IE8, etc. Keep on getting "file association"…
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Having to Manual connect my Internet
I recently had to change my WEP key (as i forgot the previous one), since doing this everytime I restart my laptop, i have to go to run "services.mcs" then to wireless zero configurations and choose start (as its always at stop), is there a way that the internet will just connect manually without having to do this…
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Problems with computer/itunes not recognising my ipod classic
My computer/itunes no longer recognises my apple ipod classic:(. I have tried putting it in disc mode but still no luck. Any ideas?
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TomTom GO "Free" HD Live - Any Success?
Has anyone managed to get the free 12 month subscription from TomTOm after buying a new GO satnav? It says that it takes 21 days but I've been waiting since 14th April and they don't respond to emails. Anyone had any issues or managed to get it?
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what is the best/cheapest way for me to connect with my
laptop when abroad using maybe wifi. thanks in advance.
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vista back to xp,help.
i installed vista 2 days ago+i dont like it. how do i go about reinstalling xp? do i have to uninstall vista first? also i forgot to write down my 25 digit key code for xp(no sticker either),is there anyway i can get to it on my pc? cheers
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slow laptop
how do i get my laptop to go faster it keeps slowing down or freezing all the time pls help:mad:
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corrupt hard drive FAT
hello all, hope someone can help. i have a corrupted external (not the one i boot off) hard drive which has become corrupted. it has some data i need to recover. i've googled recovery software for freebie (i'm on jsa and cant afford 40/50 squid for commercial) shareware or similar to recover. best i found was one which…
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Server Maintenance
Is there anything non skilled office folk should be doing to keep a server clean and squeaky? I used to defrag and disc clean the PCs regularly but the company who installed the server said it was best not to do this to the server. Personally don't believe all I'm told by them but wouldn't interfere without some basis for…
