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No Wireless Connection
My son had an HP laptop for Xmas, and it only connects to the internet on quick start up if he goes on fully it says hes connected but he just gets the unable to display page, as anyone any ideas. Its windows 7 if that helps and it wont work either wireless or with the ethernet cable. Sorry i cant give more info but im not…
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Please save a Pure Sensia from being thrown out the window...
... or at least, taken back to John Lewis. This was our Christmas present to ourselves and I am very disappointed with it. It does everything I want but it is very very awkward to use. Can anyone help me with the issues I raise below, or is it really as bad as I'm discovering? Firstly, the menu is almost impossible to use.…
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Power Supply Question
My daughter bought us a Kodakpulse Digital Frame for Xmas and unfortunately the 3 pin UK adapter that slots into the power adapter is faulty. I have contacted Kodak via email but expect it could be ages before I get a reply due to the Xmas/Jan Sales deluge they will get. Can anyone advice where I could buy a replacement…
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iTunes Library dissapeared!
Hi, can anybody give me any advice, I have a mac running iTunes which I use for my iphone4, hubbys iphone 3gs and both of the kids ipod nanos - I've just gone to move some stuff about from my iphone and all the itunes library is completely empty! I can sign in to the itunes store and it shows my purchase history of all the…
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Laptop damage
I bought an HPG62-b18sa from HP paid £449 plus quidco bought in Dec for christmas present for D/D on opening the l/t on the keyboard rest it has a small hole in it obviously factory damaged ,will I get a re fund or should I take replacement or can I get a better deal else where.I stayed away from refurb and the high street…
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toshiba laptop and fingerprints
got a new toshiba laptop the cover of the screen and the body below the keyboard seem to retain fingerprint marks from when you touch it and don't come off very well if you clean it any tips?
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help to replace a ceiling light
Hi, I am looking to replace a ceiling light but there are 4 red wires, 2 black wires and 2 earth wires connecting to the old ceiling light. I am looking for a 'kit' to connect the 4 red wires to one single red wire, the 2 black wires to one single black wire and the 2 earth wires to one single eath wire. Anybody know what…
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New PC blew up!
A friend of mine bought a new PC for Christmas. Unfortunately her husband changed it from 240V to 110V ( I'm assuming on the PSU but didn't know you could do this) for some reason. Of course when switched on it subsequently blew up! Any idea what damage may have been done? Would it hopefully just be the PSU that's been…
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SKYHD Box & Video - is this possible?
Hi, I'm asking this question on behalf of my husband. We previously had Sky+box & we were still able to use our video/dvd combi to record a 3rd analogue channel if we'd already set the box to record 2 programmes simultaneously. We were also to watch an analogue programme if we wished to. It's just been very convenient at…
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DLNA Server Probs
Greetings one and all I have an issue here which I am totally perplexed about. In our humble abode we have two computers both of them running Windows 7 Home Premium both 2 gigs of ram both of them running through Belkin wireless N router On my computer I am running Twonky Media server and i am able to stream my music and…
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Xbox power lead question
Well, I managed to repair my grandsons Xbox, dismantled, unglued and cleaned the laser and mirror plus fitted a new tray belt. Anyway I have now got a couple more to do, but one came without a power lead, it is a 2006 one. The problem is that the power lead I have, 2007 model, will not plug in! There is a piece of plastic…
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iPlayer on Foxsat HDR
Hi A friend of mine has recently bought a Humax Foxsat HDR and he wants to connect it to the internet to get access to the BBC iPlayer. He currently has an ADSL wired modem. He is unable to get a cable from the modem to the Foxsat box so I was wondering what the options are for wireless access. This seems to be one option:…
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AMD Phenom vs Intel i3 - how to choose
I am considering two Toshiba laptops and would appreciate some advice on how to choose between them. Toshiba Satellite L650D-123 http://www.johnlewis.com/231098314/Product.aspx has a AMD Phenom™ II Triple-Core N850 2.2 GHz with a 500Mb HD and costs 70 pounds more than Toshiba Satellite L650-1GC…
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Help with netbook, can't suss what's wrong?
Hi Have got the kids for Christmas a netbook and all was working fine yesterday. Then today for some reason the keyboard wouldn't type, when we finally managed to get it working (not sure how or what we did) but now it appears we have set some sort of short cuts up as certain keys won't type and will bring specific pages…
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How? Snip section of video from commercial DVD
As per title... I want to snip a short section from a commercial DVD. I use Ubuntu Linux and currently dont have any video editing software installed. Ta
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Blu-Ray software
I have installed a Blu-Ray player on my computer, but to watch the discs I need to install some software to view them on. I currently have a trial version of PowerDVD10 to watch them on but to purchase it is quite expensive. Are there any cheaper or free versions I could install instead?
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EONs free wattage meter
Got mine a few days ago. I gotta say WOW For free its a fantastic piece of kit. No idea how much it would be to buy, but id guess at LEAST 60 quid Bit of an eye opener mind, my pc in particular is a bit hungry. Anyone dragging their feet thinking it would be rubbish (like I was until a bloke at work informed me otherwise)…
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Which AGP card for oldish Motherboard - Advice please.
Just refurbished my older PC and would also like to use it for gaming. Spec. Dual boot XP32 / Windows 7 Ultimate Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Memory - 1500MB CPU - Athlon Barton 3200 400MHz Drives - Sata Raid 0 - 2 x 500GB (running around 95MB/sec) Graphics AGP - NVidia FX5500 Recently got some of the…
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Connect laptop to Hi-Fi wirelessly
Want to connect my laptop to my Hi-Fi wirelessly My current HI-Fi has a usb pclink which i could just stream the music to but want to do it without the wires (cannot now though as laptop running on windows 7 and no drivers available ) Is there anything that will plug into the usb port on the Hi-Fi or any other way ? Will…
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Spotify playlist question
Hello, I've imported all my local files into Spotify. Is there a way to automatically create playlists based on artists so friends can then see these published playlists? I'd rather not have to create hundreds of playlists manually. Ta
