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can you get USB multi adapters?
i got about 3 or 4 external hard drives and want to sort through them all and put onto one, my laptop only has 3 USB ports, one for the mouse so wondered if you can get a multi adapter to plug into one USB that will take 3 or 4 extra accessories?
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AOL Speed issue
From around the end of October I have been unable to play any video during weekday evenings on AOL. The speed has been dropping from 4.4M in the morning/afternoon to currently 310kb as I write this. I have mailed AOL but they want me to phone them on their 0844 number (costly) which will probably just waste my time and…
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Pressed some buttons, now content on webpages looks smaller
I've been doing some repetitive cutting and pasting using keyboard shortcuts and must have accidently pressed a shortcut for something else as now everything on webpages seems smaller. It's only a very slight change, but I'd like to put it back to normal. It's not just the text size, as I've tried changing this under the…
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Cheapest LG M2762D?
Found out from MSE that the Found out from MSE that the LG M2762 is a really good tv for what I want. Just can't find it anywhere for less than £299! Can anyone find it somewhere cheaper, use of vocher codes will be good (Y)
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Get an error message after 4hrs of usage
Hello In the last few days, I seem to be getting an error message when I use IE8 for around four hours. Without warning I get an error message: 'The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000012d). Click ok to terminate the application.' At times the blue box that surrounds the error message says 'tskmgr.exe', at…
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No wifi connection?
No Wifi Connection? hi, i hope someone can help me as earlier this morning i had my broadband installed by a virgin media engineer for the 10meg option. the problem i have is that i must use the ethenet cable to connect to the Internet, when i disconnect the cable it disconnects from the Internet not allowing me to surf…
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Phonecall from Microsoft-scam?
Has anyone had a phone call from 'overseas':mad: from someone claiming to be from Microsoft wanting to run a health check on my computer. They were asking if I was online at the moment and if not would I please go online for them. I wasn't online at the time and politely told them to go away as I was busy, they asked if…
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Scanning & editing help needed please?
:A Hi good of you to read thanks. :beer: :A I have just scanned in some of my bank statements which I want to edit. :cool: I have saved the pages and done OCR. However. the text and figures are all over the place and need a lot of work to get in column order, probably due to the scanner creating different tables which seem…
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Vioce recognition on Vista?
Hi, I beleive that Vista has built in voice recognition, but does anyone know how to access it from the desktop. I also have office 2007 if anyone knows if that is any better? Thanks
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Help! Internet Explorer
Hi All Internet Explorer on our laptop at home is not playing ball! (I am having to post this from my computer at work) This started yesterday evening and has continued today – Tuesday evening was the last time I was actually able to do anything! There doesn’t seem to be any problem with the Internet connection itself, and…
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Boot disk
Hi All, Sorry another Techie question. Does anybody know where to get a Boot disk from. The system is a Windows Vista one if that makes a difference. Cheers
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Back Up Problem
Hi All I have been trying to back up my docs, photos and music as i need to put a new OS on it as the licence for my previous one has expired. As the 2 W7 are different veriions i cannot just validate with the new key. I tried the W7 back up three times but each time it closed down, after 2 hours each times:wall: Please…
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ipad 2.0 when?
Any news on when the ipad 2.0 will be launched, or at least when Apple will release the date for release (IYSWIM). I'm guessing sort of mid-Jan so they can flog off the current model in the post-Xmas sales, but does anyone have more definite news? TIA
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Advice needed about blogs.
I want to add articles (approx 1,000 words) every month or so to a page on my website and have been told that a blog is the way to do this easily. Whenever I add a new article I'd like to be able to archive the old one, but make it easily accessible to anyone visiting my site. I have no idea who which is the best blog…
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data from old computer to new
Hi My computer can no longer be started and has given up... so I need to buy another and I am going for a laptop this time. I have taken the hard drive out of my old computer and when I buy the laptop will endeavour to transfer stuff over. Now I have Norton Security (yes I can hear many groaning :) ) and it renews…
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Which laptop?
Hi My in-laws have very generously offered to buy my daughter (16) a laptop for Christmas, but don't have a clue where to start. I don't have much more idea than them. I've read up on the site and forums, but the processor bit is confusing me the most! The laptop requirements are:- Laptop (not notebook) Will only be used…
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I can't download updates as it says there is no internet - but there is!
Hi, Hope you can help. A lot of times when my computer comes up with an update, when I try to install it a box comes up saying I don't have internet connection - but I have! I think I know I just have to check/uncheck something in one of the settings, but I just cannot work out what I have to do! Thanks for any advice!
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Security Camera
Hi All, Im thinking of getting a security camera for my porch and was thinking of a wireless one which has maybe a scart plug reciever so i can put it in my TV and when the door bell rings i can switch to AV1 and see who is there, after being burgled the wife is very nervious at the moment, Do these things exist and does…
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New laptop advice
Hi, I'm looking to buy a new laptop as desktop is broke. Can anybody recomend a good one for around £450? I need it to: Last, i.e not break within a few years. Have around 2.2 ghz RAm of at least 3gb Hard Drive of over 250gb ideally HD, but not essential and be wireless for internet. I use it for: Surfing net mostly…
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itunes arrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhh
right i never have any problems with computers but OMG itunes is an absolute nitemare does sync not mean it syncs the iphone and pc so they are the same? i have all my songs on my iphone but no longer on my new PC after a hard disk failure. Surely if i sync it should put them back on the computer? what am i doing wrong…
