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How to play Blu-Ray discs on my laptop
Hi, I have an Acer 8935 laptop with a built in Blu-Ray/DVD/CD drive/player. I normally play CDs, DVDs and mpg video files using VLC or Windows Media Player. I’ve just got my first Blu-Ray disk (Springsteen’s London Calling) but it won’t play. VLC says “Your input can't be opened:….VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://F:\'.…
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Can Anyone Of You Lovely Lot Help Me??
I have been trying to install shopandscan webviewer and it wont run for some reason. I get so far and it comes up with this error? Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Cleverbot
cleverbot dot com 4 sum tech fun http://askabouttech.com/how-to-use-cleverbot/
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Media Streamer and Hard Drive
Well, I dont know much about these I have to admit I am looking for a good Media streamer, that plays just about all vid types, MKV to Avi etc so I know I would need a decent one for play MKV files I also want a 1TB HD, so I can stream straight from the HD rather than my PC... so I know you can get some built in streamers…
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Toshiba L500-1WG or L500-1XD
I am so thinking of buying a new laptop... John Lewis sells L500-1WG £439 and Argos sells L500-1XD £449. I don't know much about computer, I think the main difference is 1WG has Pentium T4400 whilst XD has Core i3. Computer will be used for browsing, son's gaming and documents. Is the Core i3 worth the extra £10? Is it…
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Mortified - where's my usual invite
Anyone on here been invited yet ?
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.264
Hello all I've hunting aroud the web to get this filr to play or to convert it to AVI. It's a video file of my DVR, the extension is just .264, I've trid allsorts to sort this file out with no luck........heeeeeeelp
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Kaspersky crashing on Full Scan
As the title says - periodically I perform a manual Full Scan with Kaspersky for the last few days it crashes on or around 80-90% - when I click on Resume Scan it goes back to the beginning. Then the same thing happens. The quick scan is OK but the Objects Scan has the same issue as the Full Scan The report says -…
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Microsoft Phone Call
I just received a phone call from Microsoft telling me that I had accidently downloaded files which were corrupting my computer and asking me to come on here and they would fix it for me. Would Microsoft actually call you up or is this some sort of scam? The girl was happy to give me her name and a number to call back on…
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.mov
We took a small film with our camera (Kodak easyshare) and it uploaded it to computer. Found it was a wee bit dark so thought we would upload it to movie maker and found it couldn't because it had extension .mov Can you advise how to make it a file acceptable for editing? Thanks sweetcarer ;)
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Norton - Whats the Point
I have Norton 2010 on the PC so how does my PC still get infected with a virus? The virus keeps telling me to scan as l have virus's, wont let you open any program etc. Pop also comes up mentioning problem with 'logonui.exe' I have system restored and now running Malware. I do feel l am wasting money with Norton, l just…
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Noisy tower!
Hi, I'd be really grateful if any of you clever people could shed some light on and advise on this matter. My p.c. tower has become so noisy that it totally distracts me and I just can't stay on the computer very long due to it's loud wirring noise. It has been doing it for about 6 months now. The computer is an evesham…
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Flip Mino 11 HD pocket camcorder
I was going to purchase one of these last night as I received an e`mail from Currys with a couple of offers on. However, the visa verification system wouldn`t let the transaction go through (2 cards) have spoken to my bank and they have confirmed its not a problem with my cards :D Since deciding to buy one of these I have…
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Quicken 6 Replacement
I have been using Quicken 6 for my domestic finances for the past 11 years - have just changed my PC and it won't run under Widows 7 !!. Does anyone know of a basic domestic finances package that I can switch too ? Preferably freeware or at a small cost. All I require is a basic current account spreadsheet which will…
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Selling a router
I'm selling my Netgear DGN2000 router, is there anything important stored on it which should be cleared before it goes or is it not necessary?
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Sony memory card stuck in Acer Aspire 5100 multimedia card slot!
Yes I know - daft thing to do. As I was putting the memory card into the multimedia card slot to transfer photos I even thought it didn't seem right but my greater sense didn't kick in and take over! Now it's stuck in there and I'm distraught. Anyone got any advice on how to get it out as there seems to be no obvious…
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Which upgrades for my PC?
Hi, I really need some help here please? I can't afford to buy a new PC, so have decided to make some upgrades on my current system. I currently have: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.79 GHz processor 512MB DDR RAM Radeon 9600 graphics card Gigabyte GA-7N400 motherboard I have just installed the Sims 2 successfully but it won't get…
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ford focus (05) air con question
hi, i put my aircon today and it didnt seem to work properly. It worked perfectly fine before, there are no leaks or anything. I also havent charged since when i bought it 3 years ago. The light comes on when i turn it on, but it doesnt get cold? Any idea anyone? thank you
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Toshiba equium
i have had my laptop around 3 years now with the original battery, this only lasts about an hour. I could do with one that lasts a lot longer, can anyone tell me where to look, how much am i looking at for one.
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Where to buy laoptop replacement keyboard?
Hi there, i need to replace the keyboard on my laptop and wondered where the best places are to look online. Thanks
