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Antivirus Help Appreciated
Hello Please can someone help me with advice on free (trial) antivirus software? I have been using AVG but after several days I was almost ready to either cry or launch my PC out of the nearest window. It made it virtually impossible to do anything on my PC as it slowed things down so much. I also had the same problem with…
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Taskbar and start menu disappeared
hi - hope someone can help me. my sons laptop cant display the taskbar or the start menu and can only access programs via the task manager. He doesnt have the windows xp cd as the laptop was an old one which was given to him. after reading other posts I've done a hijack log in the hope that someone can suggest something to…
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Need new laptop £500 to spend
Hi, I'm looking for a good laptop and have around £500 to spend. I've seen an Acer Aspire 7741G 320GB 17.3in Laptop at Argos for £499.99 but I'm not sure if it is a good deal or not. Any comments would be much appreciated or any other suggested laptops. Thank you
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Toshiba TV???
Argos has a Toshiba 32BV500B on offer at £250 this seems a good deal. Any comments as this is cheaper than an Alba or a Bush similar model.
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toshiba satellite L300 20W
hi there does anyone have any views on this laptop for about £235? Seems to be discontinued in a few online stores and when it was on hotukdeals a year ago there were only a couple of comments but want to buy 2 for the kids at christmas so don't want to spend too much but also want a bigger screen than 10". thanks
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XBOX 360 slim 500gb upgrade
Does anyone know if the new Xbox has an official 500gb hard drive on the horizon. We bought a 4gb model, but now wish we had more space - and instead of buying a 250gb hdd, if a 500gb was due out then we'd wait and get the bigger one!
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What Do You All Think Of This Cool New Gadget???
what looks like an amazing cool new gadget for the home phone market:…
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Invalid Boot INI file
Hi This is my first post on this brill forum and hope someone can help. I turn on my pc and it attempts to load windows xp, fails and returns to start with the message Invalid Boot INI File. I have read previous advice but they all concern pc`s that can show windows, my pc does not even reach the windows stage. Any advice…
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BT Broadband speed lowered suddenly...
Hi Peeps, Sometime last week I realised that my broadband speed was a lot slower than usual when downloading so decided to investigate. I logged into the router nly to discover that the downstream, which is usually about 6.5, now says it is only 4,524 kbps. The Upstream was also lowered. At first I thought we had been…
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Internet Down and getting this message
Since getting up this morning I have been unable to access the internet using my broadband connection:( All I get is this message You have been connected to this page due to one of the following reasons. You must now shut down your browser and Internet applications before attempting to reconnect. 1. The BTWholesale access…
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canon mp520 pinter problems
morning all trying to run off 200 flyers,,,all ok but printer issues a 2nd blank sheet with each flyer... is their any way of stopping this from happening??[FONT="][/FONT] thanks shaun
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AVG Problem
I can't boot up my laptop. I had a warning of a trojan horse and was advised to scan online to fix it. Everytime Iistart my pc now it tries to start something called "think point" and gives me an option for safe start up. If I choose that it says it's running a full scan of my PC but it does nothing. Can anyone help please?
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AV not seen
Booted comp this morning & it's telling me I have no AV/Firewall. I do (running Norton scan atm, will run malware l8r). Can see anything on hijack this log, but if any1 else can plz do tell. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 12:34:51, on 06/11/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE:…
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PSP Go 10 Free Downloadable Games?
Hi, My LO just got himself a PSP Go with the 10 free downloadable games, we've downloaded the theme etc that you need to to get the redemption code sent to your email....just waiting for the email to come through? Anyone know how long it takes?
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Unable to open photos (to many bytes) help please.
Apologies if this has been posted before, I have searched in vain. My new camera takes photos at 12MP (3000 x 4000) I'm unable to open them on my netbook (Samsung NC10) using Microsoft Photo Editor. I get the error message saying that the photo is too large (too many bytes) I am a complete novice and don't know how to…
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help with hijackthis
Hi, I am trying to save and post log on here, but, it keeps pulling old log up.It asks me if I want to replace it, I reply, yes, and it still shows lod log, 06/10.I get dialogue box, Shift+right click, no run as admin shows, just says latest log, do I want to save?yes, then replace old, but cannot get new log up to…
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Is it safe to sell broken laptop on Ebay
Hi i have a broken laptop which was my daughters only had 2 yrs , the screen comes on but nothing there. Well i have now brought a new one as i got told it would costquite abit to repair, well i have got the harddrive left inside so is it safe to sell this on ebay i cant get nothing off the laptop stuff which my daughter…
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Skype & BT Homehub??
Hello :) I had my BT broadband and home phone line disconnected about 6 months ago to use 3 mobile broadband instead, although my experience with 3 on the whole has been a positive one I am due to start a University degree in February via the Open University, some of the work and tutor communication is going to be internet…
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Question re Avira scan report
Have just scanned and the report summary is here - "28001 Scanned directories 700913 Files were scanned 0 Viruses and/or unwanted programs were found 0 Files were classified as suspicious 0 files were deleted 0 Viruses and unwanted programs were repaired 0 Files were moved to quarantine 0 Files were renamed 0 Files cannot…
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Removavable disc showing as RAW cannot see any contents
I have put a hardrive in a ide hardrive casing but although it is showing in my computer all it says when I try to explore or open it is 'Drive is not formatted would you like to format now y/n' By right clicking its properties it is showing as a RAW system with 0 used space and 0 free space, it was previously an NFTS…
