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Ebuyer question.
I bought a laptop on friday, paid next day delivery so expected it on saturday. Didn't come and it still says "Awaiting dispatch" which is worrying as it says it's due to arrive tomorrow? But it's not even left the warehouse yet? :( Any ideas? Do you think it'll be here tomorrow.
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Dead laptop
Hi guys I hope some kind mser will read this and be able to help me. My daughter has a hp laptop and today she turned it on only to find a blank screen with a dot in the top left corner and no flashing hardrive lights. If anyone could please advise it would be really appreiciated Thanks in advance
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quick sat nav question
i'm in the middle of looking for a sat nav and have decided to go for a garmin nuvi model can it be run from the cars power supply or can they only be recharged once their own battery has run out cheers nick
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Illuminated keyboard problem
I've had THIS keyboard for a few months now, and all of a sudden, when I press some of the keys I get multiple letters appearing. Say I'm typing an email and press the letter 'E' on the keyboard, it types 'qwer' on the screen. It does this with other letter keys too, but displays different letters - say I press 'J' it will…
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Connecting a laptop to a TV?
Hi, I'm a complete novice with anything technical but I'd like to connect a laptop to a big LCD TV in my daughter's bedroom so she can watch programs straight from the internet. She watches BBC I Player and 4OD on the laptop at the moment but it seems silly not to use the big TV in her bedroom. I'm wondering what sort of…
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Can't run MBAM on infected laptop
Hi kind people. I'm trying to get Antimalware Doctor off a laptop to save a wedding next week! I've tried to follow Browntoa's instructions by downloading Malwarebytes to a USB drive but when I try to run the programe, the virus puts up a dialogue box saying "Application cannot be executed. The file sas(filename) is…
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Help, is external hard drive dead?
After a lot of faffing about and asking advice I bought a WD passport essential external hd a couple of months ago. Today I did a lot of quotes so I thought Id better update/back up the hard drive. Ive plugged it in as usual but where I have two columns on the screen, one being my puter files and the other showing me whats…
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Cryogenically frozen plugs, hundred quid HDMI cables and now...
An "Audiophile SATA cable". http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oi06md947_oJ:www.malcolmsteward.co.uk/%3Fp%3D2479+malcolm+steward+sata&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk He's since deleted the original blog post because people were tearing him to bits in the comments and across the web, but it's worth reading, just…
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Need AVG Free 8.5
I have been using Avg free version 9 for a while with no problems. However I have started work with a new company and version 9 is not compatible with their system. They have given a list of compatible anti-virus and AVG is best of the bunch, however whenever I try to download version 8.5 is automatically upgrades to 9.…
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downloading photos
when i try to down load photos from my pictures I get a message on Internet explorer has blocked active control in a unsafe manner this stoppes me from down loading phots to send as a email
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outlook express has all my e-mail ?
Story so far , we had to have a new hard drive in our computer. Some info was transferred off old hard drive to new. We have our email with btinternet and I needed to set up the account in outlook express, eg. [EMAIL="another@btinternet.com"]another@btinternet.com[/EMAIL]. My account is the subaccount and I have just set…
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Internet connection help needed
I am looking for some help please. I have a Student just arrived from Germany and he cannot connect to my wireless internet. It is showing as 100 % available but is not connecting. He had this problem also just before he came and was told the networking card was possibly broken so he went and bought a dongle but is having…
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firefox - bookmarks & folders question
hi, is there any way to create folders in firefox? for instance when i click bookmarks i have a long list, several for banking etc , i want to put all banking ones in a folder, jobs in a folder etc so the list isnt as long. i know you can do it in ie, but im struggling. cheers.
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Finding previous-generation iMacs
Hi, I'm looking to buy an iMac soon and Apple just updated them to Intel's i3/i5/i7 processors. Anyone know where I can get a sub-£900 21.5" previous generation model in retail (N. East) or online? Thanks
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Washing machine, flood and electrical help!
I'm having a bad technology day here..... Having just returned from holiday with masses of washing (and DD due to go away again tomorrow morning), the washing machine flooded. I checked the filter at the front and detergent drawer and no problems there. The water is coming from underneath at the back. Unfortunately,…
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Need a new desktop
Hope someone can help. My PC is struggling and I think it may be time to get a new one. I like the traditional word,excel etc and really only use my PC for word processing and the internet. I currently have Windows ME and it is struggling with certain things. I am not all that knowledgeable re: all this computer lark! My…
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Video Editing
Hello all, I'm trying my first attempt at video editing and not having much luck, could anyone recommend some free idiot proof software. Thanks, Pete
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Can I Create More than 1 Playlist on Ipod Touch?
Hi Sorry if this is in the wrong place. Can I create more than one playlist on my Ipod? There is the on-the-go one, but I'd like to create more if I can. I've tried creating more in Itunes and trying to drag them into the Ipod, but that doesn't work. Thanks
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Is this too good to be true ?
http://www.power-on.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?PID=4429 Has anyone had any dealings with this company?
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Free Online Excel & Powerpoint Courses?
Anyone know of any good online courses for Excel and Powerpoint that are free? I used Excel when I was studying at university but that was 8 years ago and I could really do with updating my skill set in order to find a new job. As for Powerpoint, well I've never actually used it. I'm primarily looking at Office 2003 as…
