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wireless storage
I had been looking to buy a buffalo link station as my laptop hard drive is getting full and I want to dump some stuff onto an external hard drive, but want a wireless one to put next to the router. I have now read some really bad reveiws on it. I had seen a 1tb one for around £69.99 (recon) and wondered if anyone could…
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sleep/hibernate
I'm running win 7 on an asus laptop. when the battery gets low it goes into what I think is hibernation. I immediately plug it in and it never goes off but I cannot wake it up. I have to turn it off completely and back on again. Can anyone help please?
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What happened to my CD-RW ?
Hi Back in 2003 when I finished university I gathered all my lecture notes and filed them away in Lever Arch folders, placed these folders within plastic boxes and put the boxes into my attic. I also had some electronic files so I burnt these onto a CD-RW and placed this inside a 3L Polypropylene CD Pocket These pockets…
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Embroidered Shirt
Hi all, I want to get some polo shirts done for a small company I am setting up. And of course money is a issue here I been told by lot companies that I have to have my logo convert to a dst format they want to charge me £35 does anyone know of any software that can do this ? Thanks
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A free VPN.
The free version of the below VPN gives me a US IP address and allows me to watch American TV on HULU and other such US IPlayer type websites. You can pay and get an increased level of service but the free one works fine for me. In addition it is totally idiot proof, download, sign up, login and then just click an on/off…
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Connecting Laptop to TV help please
Hi, I am trying to connect my laptop to my TV. I thought I was having some success aswhen I turned on the laptop the image came onto the TV but once loaded up the picture was only on the laptop. What do I need to do in order to get the image on the TV screen please. My laptop has Windows XP
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Sending a fax
Ok, might be a daft question but I need to send a fax. I don't know anyone with a fax machine and can't send from work because we're facing redundancies and it's literally more than my job's worth. I have to fax an original document so can't use an 'e-mail' fax. Does anyone know where there is a fax service for example…
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Old Laptop running WindowsME
Okay, stop laughing... I was fishing about in the bottom of a cupboard the other day and found my old Time laptop. I dusted off the cobwebs and found there was still life in it! Unfortunately it's running WindowsME. It's a P3 700mhz with 128mb of RAM (stop it...) and my question is: Can it be salvaged? Can the RAM be…
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"Lost" Hard Drive....again!
I got a message to say that I was running out of space on drive C. The onboard HD is 250gb, and has 2 partitions. The last time this happened I tried using Partition Magic to decrease the size of the other partition (F) and increase partition C. This resulted in partition F disappearing altogether, and I had to post a cry…
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insurance claim advice
I am with direct line and have submitted and insurance claim for laptop which was dropped and screen damaged. I have had a call from avandia who deal with the claim on behalf of direct line requesting I send the laptop to then to see if it is repairabl Question i have is can I remove the hard drive before sending it to…
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New Lenovo laptop won't write to CD, says wrong disk type
Hi, My newish laptop says please insert writable disk when I try to burn a file - but they are virgin writable CD-Rs and I've tried a DVD - RW too. I'm using Window 7 - is it me or is it hard to get used to? Thanks very much in advance for any help, hoping to get it fixed before I go for the 8am train tomorrow!
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SEDO domain name price - please help
The domain name is cheaperconveyancing.co.uk I made a bid of £100 and it was accepted virtually straight away. Its 6 years old. I looked on whois and compared the sellers details on Sedo and they dont match - so I have emailed my concerns to Sedo. Do I have anything to worry about? Also, the site doesn't have any history -…
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cardfile software
hiya, Anyone know of a free cardfile software - something along the lines of Pegasus maybe. I need to be able to have quick and easy access to client info and rather than have to keep the old cardfile on my desk through there might be something free to download instead :beer:
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Can't watch ITV3 player - advert blocking?
I've never had this problem in the past. I tried watching a programme on ITV3 player - message appeared on screen saying I need to disable advert blocking. I have IE 8 Windows 7 and McAfee security. Can anyone tell me how to disable advert blocking please?
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idiot proof laptops
can anyone advise me which is the simplest laptop for me(I am not a machine person)I probably only use it for emails/surfing etc,so pretty basic stuff.I am amazingly bad with computers etc,and after I have sent this thread,I will probably not be able to find it again.Please help:eek:
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Security tool!! help please
Hi all, Ok i've been on the link to the malware removal and followed steps 1-4 however i'm having problems downloading the lavasoft ad aware. It won't download! I've run the scans on the spybot S&D, CCleaner and malwarebyte, removed the infections but still have this security tool warning pop ups!! Have been at this for 6…
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Outlook 2010 query - 2 week calendars
I work in education, and am in need of trying to tailor Outlook to my purposes; I use outlook 2010 to list my lessons, e.g. "1 4:A meaning lesson 1 I teach year 4 group A. I will have 5 of these in my calendar a day for the 5 lessons I teach. We have a 2 week timetable, and I've added the first 2 weeks to my outlook…
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Scared to be on the techie board-netbook Q's!!
AS the title suggests, easy cheesy with me as I avidly avoid this board as I know nowt about all this :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I work from home, but want to be able to do so remotely (i.e starbucks :D ) I have no idea what I need to do this. Laptop/netbook What is the difference? Any bargains to be had? Best place to buy?…
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Why is this laptop unsuitable for broadband dongles?
http://www.cashgenerator.co.uk/Laptops/compaq-armada-e500/EM83 If it's just because of the 512 MB of RAM, could this not be swapped for a 1GB stick?
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lost my master disc
we lost our master disc, for dell pc. we also cannot use our mircosoft word. when we use it, it said its not signed to current user. why is that, or would it mean paying £££ for new mircosoft word etc ty
