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Yahoo POP3 Problems
Hi, I'm having problems receiving yahoo mail on Windows live Mail. I have the exact same set-up on both my laptop and desktop and for around a week now I've been getting I've tried increasing the timeout period but its made no difference, I've not changed anything else, everything is still configured correctly at both…
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DVD recording
hi all, I have an ongoing problem with my DVD recorders - just when I think I have it sorted it just all goes wrong again and as I am not very good anyway with these things I'm going to need some help please I have a sky box in my back room and would like to download some of the programmes I have saved on the planner to a…
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Microsoft publisher and open office?
Trying to work from home at the moment but the documents I've got are publisher and my openoffice 2.0 doesn't recognise them. Is there a newer openoffice version that might work, does anyone know?
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USB3 worth waiting for?
I'm looking for a new laptop. I've seen reports that a new USB socket will be introduced soon that is much faster. Do I buy my laptop now or wait for one with a USB3? I don't download videos and the such like except for an odd transfer from my video camera.
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Printer wont work on new PC
I have just bought a new computer and I just simply replaced it - put all the wires where they were in the old one. Everything works apart from the printer - I have looked at the settings on the computer and it seems to know the printer is there, I just cant get it to print.. Any ideas? Thanks in anticipation
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ati warning
just switched on pc and this warning message poped up..... the catalyst control center is not supported by the driver version of your enabled graphics driver,please update your ati graphics driver,or enable your ati adapter using the displays manager. i think its a radeon x300/x550/1050 series. ive had this pc for a couple…
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Acer Aspire Netbook
Hi, i was wondering is it easy for a novice like myself to put more memory ( i presume ) in my netbook ? I ve got a 1GB that i bought from Crucial which will double up what i have already. When bought the os was changed to windows xp and i find it very slow eg i player keeps stopping and starting, always a problem with…
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Trojan.FakeAlert help
Hi, I don't normally post in this section but I hope someone can help. Yesterday, I had a message come up on my screen that looked like it was Windows Security Centre. It said I had 9 infected files, listed them (I have written down all the names), and told me that to fix them I needed to visit a website and download…
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HELP PLEASE - PC problems
My pc has crashed 4 times today and for a few days before this it had started freezing within a few mins of boot up. Each time it crashed today I got the message: "Windows has encountered a problem....." then, after re-booting it came up with " .....recovered from unexpected shutdown, do you want winows to search for a…
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VAT payable on downloaded software from USA?
Hi guys I belong to a US games site for which I pay a subscription in dollars. From time to time I download a game from the USA, and pay in dollars. The invoice includes US sales tax applicable. Now they have changed the system and subdivided users into countries, although they continue to operate solely out of the USA. As…
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Recovery of USB drive??
Hi, What is best way to recover my USB hard drive which has my photos and MP3 files (160Gb) I have googled different recovery software but not sure which one i need to buy. Any recomendations as my drive has 8 years worth of pics :( Thanks!
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Blue Screen of Death at startup!
Hi all, Over the past few months i have been having problems with my computer connecting to my router and often the only way to fix the problem has been to restart the router. Unfortunately, most often the computer would close down but be stuck at the 'shutting down' screen for hours upon hours soi would just have to…
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Tracing private calls to mobiles
Hi everyone, Been having a few calls from a person whose been calling me on a private number - is there anyway to track their call or stop it getting through - I don't want all private numbers blocked as sometimes my work numbers are x-directory. Any help appreciated. Many thanks, :)
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Mouse playing up
As from today my mouse freezes. Bought a new one and it is the same. Works OK for a while and then stops. Any ideas please?
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Highlighting email text in Outlook
How do I highlight text in an email (incoming) in Outlook? I use Outlook Connector for Hotmail and just can't figure out how to do it, like you can do in Word. Thanks :)
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TV has lost signal
I'm assuming this is a problem caused by the weather, but the TV suddenly lost its signal about thirty minutes ago. We have checked the aerial that plugs into the back of the TV and that is fine. We have also checked the other two TVs in the house - they are without a signal too. My mum lives in the next street and her TV…
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sky tv upstairs from downstairs
I would like to get sky tv on my upstairs bedroom tv (using the same sky box) i dont mind having to watch the same channel because the downstairs tv is HARDLY used anyway. How can i do this without wireless tv senders (they suck..)
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Windows Mail
Hi All, I upgraded my windows mail to new 2011 version, the problem I have is when new mail comes in I have to manually scroll down to read the new email, on the old version new mail appeared itself, is there a quick fix for this?. Cheers
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Back up error message
A few weeks ago I started getting problems when my laptop was going through the weekly backup. I have been using discs (CD/DVD) and the error message I get tonight is "The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the open file is no longer valid." Can anyone offer advice please?
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recommendations easy to use website creator.
Hi all Looking for some recommendations for sites for website creation. I already have one site to showcase some of my photography but want to set up another. Current site I use is weebly.com which is very good, I like it lots but "promoting" my site and SEO doesn't seem to be easy or work well - a search on google with my…
