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blue tooth receiving software
Basically since my husbands notebook went away for repair and came back with half of the preinstalled programs missing and his notebook not having a cd drive (we have a cd witch came with the notebook- yep someone reallythought that one through) He has a bluetooth module built into the machine but no recieving software can…
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One touch dialing with waits and pauses... how to?
I need to type in a phone number and theni) wait for a prompt before typing in a code (x two) ii) pause before typing in one digit (x too many) This drives me crazy and you may be thinking, why not just stop doing it? Oh I intend to, but I have no choice in the matter at the moment. So, while I wait for the system…
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How to organise mp3 player?
I've synced (over months/years) from windows music player to my player and although I've put some tracks in folders its still not alphabetical. When I plug it into a computer all the folders are in alphabetical order, but the player on its own is not. If starting from scratch: maybe creating folders via laptop, whilst the…
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Connecting laptop to Bluetooth speaker
Hi I have recently purchased an Intempo BTS01 bluetooth speaker. I am trying to use it with my Dell Laptop (Vista). I tried to connect using the passkey provided with speaker (0000) but it gives an error message, however I can connect using no passkey. I can see the speaker is listed in my Bluetooth devices. When I click…
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Word Processing Problems - Word,Works and Open Office!
Hello all I hope somebody here has had the same problem as me and can help. OH is a small sole trader and I do the invoices. Up until this year we had a "borrowed" copy of MS Word from a family member (yes, I know -serves us right). Old hard drive died and since then we have used Works Word processor for the invoices but…
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Web Hosting - thinking of a change
I am currently hosting my website through 1and1 and I am thinking about changing. I use the "home" hosting which is £4.99 a month as I need space and e-mail functions. I've been with them for a number of years now and I am thinking of changing hosting and was wondering what was around and what people thought of other…
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Anyone else been contacted by Advancedsupport.com?
I had a strange phonecall earlier from someone at Advancedsupport.com saying that they were authorised by windows to contact me because my secure socket layer (whatever that is!) needs protection from infections and junk. He got me to do a Windows R then 'inf' and then 'prefetch unwanted' to show me all the infections that…
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netgear router wont reset
i have been given a netgear router dg834gt i want to use it instead of my o2 wireless router, my kids play ps3 online and are always complaining about the connection, so i thought maybe a change of router might solve the issue, the thing is i am trying to reset the netgear router but it is always still showing the wireless…
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£500ish laptop
Hello, I'm after a circa £500 laptop for uni, and so far the Dell Studio 15 seems the best deal for £539.. Can anyone point me towards a better one? I don't want on-board graphics, and am wanting a decent processor - So the 1GB Radeon & i3 on the Studio draw me towards it.. It'll be used for work / films etc + some games..…
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Ipod Touch
Does anyone know if the ipod touch has a built-in speaker or whether you have to use the earphones all the time? We want to buy one for our son for his birthday, but don't want him having ear phones in the whole time. To be honest he'll be using it for the games and apps more than music. Thanks. :T
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Help with Pluscom 3.5" hard drive caddy
can any one help? I am a little thick on these matters. I bought a pluscom 3.5 hard drive enclosure from to recover my files from the hard drivei of my PC.(PC has given up the ghost, drive ok). Drive is as below…
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Saving drivers for re-format
I've reformatted o/s a few times. I always have a problem with network adapter drivers, meaning not being able to connect to internet to search for them. Everything else seems to go to plan ok. I always seem to find them in the end on web with using another computer. But what is the easiest way to save drivers i wish to…
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how can i move large files from one computer to another?
As the title suggests I have around 7gb of music, pictures and various other thing on my old windows 98 machine which I want to preferably copy (or move) over to my new machine on windows xp. I have tried the files and settings transfer wizard, which seems to work fine- but it suggests it will take 100hours to move…
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USB/Ethernet adapter driver
Hi - I am looking for a driver dor my ADM851X USB To Fast Ethernet Adapter. The only one I seem to be able to find cost money... any suggestions? Thanks Ladyhawk
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Adding users on my laptop
With summer holidays upon us, and kids wanting to keep in touch with friends I would like to add my kids as users onto my laptop, I know I can add new users via the control panel, but how can I be sure that they do not have access to my profiles, bookmarks and files. It's a Dell Inspiron Mini, running on XP. Your…
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Bogus phone calls
Hi peeps Just wanted to warn you about this ......... Yesterday and again this morning I got a call saying they were from Microsoft and they could see that my computer was running slow and that some error codes were showing up in my post code area they asked me to switch on my computer so they could adjust or something at…
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Connecting Karaoke machine to monitor
We have a karaoke machine that plays CD+G discs. Obviously this needs connecting to a screen to be able to read the lyrics. We have a spare computer monitor. The output from the karaoke is via 3 sockets (2xaudio, 1 video). Input into the monitor is the standard computer monitor socket. (Sorry I don't know the terms for…
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scan into encrypted folder?? mac
I always imagine that any of us that are careful with money tend to be careful about security too - or is that just me!? Can I push-scan documents into some sort of protected folder?? I've just got a lovely new printer-scanner-copier (epson sx610fw) and would love to scan directly into a folder that has some sort of…
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whats happenend to my internet ????
Up until yesterday my internet was working fine now its having a permanent sleep and I'm not sure if its something Ive pressed by mistake as I'm not the brightest where computer stuffs concerned. When i go into google and put a website in it finds it no problem, when I click on the website it then goes into a major strop…
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New PC Required
I have decided to bite the bullet and buy a new home PC as my old HP is struggling with my demands now that I have started to master computing. I mainly require a PC for general internet usage and storing music/business files. I would like to maybe use it to start watching C4 on demand etc, maybe TV if a tuner option was…