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Edited! Upgrading my existing PC now instead of buying a new one!
Hi all Can someone please give me some advise as I'm not very Techie (but I get by!) and I don't know anyone :o really "Techie!" to ask! The pc I have now is 5 yrs old it's ok overall but could be faster at times I was considering attempting to upgrade the memory myself but am not sure whether it would be worth it ie if I…
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Sound & Pic issues Virgin TV
Hi, For a few weeks now, I've been having some sound issues on my Panasonic TV whcih is hooked up to a virgin V+HD box. The sound is normal & then suddenly makes a high pitched 'squeaky' noise. The picture also gets distorted with little squares appearing/disappearing again in various places. It has got worse over the…
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Anybody know where I can view a spec of this laptop?
Hi I have a chance of buying a second hand Dell Latitude C540/C640 from someone. But they aren't sure of the spec. Is there anywhere I can view it? Also, what would they be worth roughly second hand?
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Laptop problems
I hope one of you techie guys can help me with my problem. My brother borrowed my laptop and now ive got it back im having problems, he says he hasnt done anything to it. When I do ctrl / alt / del the task manager no longer shows up. I cant access it from start menu, it says its been disabled by administrator. I cant…
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Picture editor
Hi does anyone know of a cheap/free picture editor where i can load photo's into a collage? Thanks all
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Trying to print 4 on a page in desktop publisher
Hi everyone!! Please help me before I throw my curly wurly out the window;o) I have created a document in dtb Blank page A4 Lsndscape. Have desnighed an a4 poster and now want to also print these off 4 on a single a4 sheet Please can someone tell me how to do this Many thanks
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Evernote : a filing system
Hi, I am absolutely hopeless as filing documents away somewhere i can find them again. I try to start filing systems but always end up piling them till they become an un-usable mess then once every six months to a year i do a big purge and chuck most of it out only to find i need something a few months later. I already use…
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Help! Print size on forum page
The print size is getting smaller and smaller. Must have hit something to do this but how can I correct it? Clueless!! Thanks.
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Is this Toshiba a 'good' buy?
Toshiba Satellite C660-125 15.6 inch Notebook (Intel Celeron T3500 Processor, 3GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium) I have the opportunity to buy this for £299 cos I clicked at the right time LOL. But I'm very out of touch with what's what nowadays and I've had a very long, tiring day and my brain isn't functioning…
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Print size on forums getting smaller and smaller
Please can someone help? The print size is just getting smaller and smaller so that I can barely see it. Must have hit a key to do this but how do I undo? Thankis.
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Sub woofer not working
Have a Creative Gigaworks 2.1 set up (connected to my PC) All of a sudden the sub has stopped working. The two small speakers are working but at a very low volume (even though volume is on full) and not exactly clear. When I switch off my PC the sub makes a loud noise as it shuts down. Is it possible that there is an error…
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Which Laptop?
Right, first you need to understand that I am totally not techie at all:o and that explanations will need to be in plain English for an old lady:D I currently have over £200 worth of Tesco Clubcard points and want to double these up in their exchange to put towards Laptops for my sons for Christmas (wouldn't normally give…
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Windows live mail problem.
Is anybody having trouble with live mail? The issue being I have three identities which work with live mail, no problem, but I have set up another one for my wife but it keeps asking for the password which I have changed several times to get it to work. She can send e-mails so it seems to be set up right (e-mail through…
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itunes wont open so i cant update my iphone :-(
the following msg appears when i plug my phone into my pc or else when i try to open itunes on its own. the file itunes library.itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of itunes. we have 2 iphones that use the same itunes account to buy music, apps etc any ideas on how to sort this? thanks in advance
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Installing Office 2010
As hubby bought himself a new laptop (only because I have just bought a new desktop and he was jealous!) and needs Office, I have bought a three license Office 2010, so that I can take advantage of an upgrade too (it was only £10.00 more than the cost of the keycode for the trial version on his laptop). Should I uninstall…
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Voltage harmoniser ????
Hi Can anyone please tell me what a voltage harmoniser is? Apparently, it's some gadget that reduces the voltage from 240 to 220 thereby saving electricity cost. I'd be grateful if someone can explain more and whether it's worth considering.
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Quick Question - Which of these two laptops?
I have a choice of two laptops for my DSA equipment, the first being at no cost to me, and the second £80. Could I ask which you would pick please? Thanks in advance! HP Compaq Presario CQ62-220SA Laptop Celeron 900 2.2GHz 15.6 WXGA TFT, 2.5kg 2GB DDR2 (1 x 2GB) 250GB HDD, DVD-RW WLAN 3 x USB Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit…
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Adding a new hard drive
I have been given an old HP desktop with no hard drive. I have connected an old one of mine to it but I am getting a 'NTLDR is missing' message. A quick google seems to point to the hard drive not being formatted but I already formated it on another pc! It might be a stupid question but if the computer did not have a hard…
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What is this thing?
This message appeared in large black letters across my desktop about 10 minutes ago: "All your personal files were encrypted with a strong algorythm RSA-1024 And you can't get access to them without making of what we need! Read "How to decrypt" txt-file on your desktop for details. Just do it as fast as you can! Remember…
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Unable to install Recovery Console from XP recovery disc (Combofix problem)
I downloaded and ran Combofix, OKing the 'This action will disable and terminate NVATray appication' box. I disabled Avast, which confirmed that all shields were off, but Combofix still came up with 'The Avast antivirus real time scanner(s) are still active but Combofix shall continue to run. Kindly note that this is at…
