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Ipod touch loosing date and app order
Hi. I have an 8gb ipod touch that is about 15 months old. I think it's a 2nd or 3rd gen (trying to find out which but having no luck). For the past month or so whenever the battery dies it resets the time and date. Also, it seems to like changing the order of my apps, and the other week removed all the folders I'd spent…
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Freesat recording question
We have Freesat and as such, have a Foxsat Satelitte HD Digital Television Recorder. Anyone with one of these will know that remote control contains many buttons, most of which are not used. Tonight whilst looking at the programme guide, the programms that are pre-set to record each time they come ie series, I noticed that…
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PC won't always connect to internet
The pc won't always connect, I need to switch the laptop off and then back on to get it to connect, it just says "acquiring network address". It's not the router because the xbox or dsi connects straight away. Any ideas? Thanks
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Using a Raid1 to move a Windows Partition
I am just thinking aloud while sat pondering and thought that some of our more knowledgeable on here would be able to answer. A Theoretical situation I have a Windows 7 Ultimate installation on a desktop and everything on a single HDD - Say 60GB I install a second HDD (60GB or larger) and set up Raid1 mirror If I remove…
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New Printer
Hi, I'm about to start a new job and need to get a new printer, as I will be working from home. I don't have a printer at the mo, so starting from scratch. I will mainly be printing in black and white but will also do the occassional bits in colour for my own use and some photos. I'm not looking to spend to much on it and…
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anyone got a sony ericson x-10 mini pro?
Good evening, i was wondering if anyone had the above phone, I purchased this phone a couple of weeks ago and the battery life was appauling lasting only 4 hours after a full charge with no use! I returned it and got a replacement but its still the same! It lasts 6 hours at most with no use of the android system, just…
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iPad and equivilent
I already know that Netbooks are a complete waste of money which you can end up paying through the teeth on a rubbish mobile contract which gives you poor connection and/or a dongle that dies in a few months which you cannot replace till your contract renews. (Sorry for the long sentence.) I've always been interested in a…
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Vista - updating
My wife runs a laptop with Vista. She can be working on the computer, either on internet or not, and the application will close and PC will start to shut down and display the "applying update 1 of X - please do not switch off the computer" i.e. the message that is displayed when we normally switch off a computer. The…
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Xbox 360 - Homefront game not working
I purchased this game last week when it came out, and since then I haven't been able to play any multiplayer games due to technical issues with THQ (manufacturer). It seems like a global problem and they are saying that they are fixing it and to bear with them. As I paid good money for the game (£42) am I within my rights…
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Is my PC Overheating.
I have a Cube desktop pc with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2400MHz processor and a GeForce GT220 Video Card. The os is Vista. I use PC Wizard 2010 to get my temperatures etc. I get a BSD every couple of days. My Processor shows the following temperatures: At Startup. Core 1. 58c Core 2. 57c Core 3. 52c Core 4. 54c Light…
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synchronising e-mails between two laptops
As the title says, is there a way to synchronise e-mails between two laptops, or do I need to save them all to a seperate drive then import them....and vice-versa later on
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Virus Scam
My husband had a phone call today from a man saying he was from LOGIN 4 SPEED . He knew my husbands name. He asked if we had any virus' on our computer and my husband said we had had as i mentioned something about a virus the other day. My husband is not computer literate so the guy got him to turn on the computer and lo…
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new laptop - is this any good?
hi there i am wanting a new laptop for every day tasks such as email, word processing , surfing the net , iplayer, uploading photos is this any good from dabs at 279.99 http://www.dabs.com/products/toshiba-c660-120-satellite---cel-dc--t3500---2gb-ram---250gb-hdd---15-6---windows-7-home-laptop-77HN.html any better deals…
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virus infection????
I've just been on the net using my main pc, and it went loopy.It has opened numerous windows saying I have been infected with a virus and windows system tools will scan the system for infected items. I closed the windows and shut down the computer. However I can't get it to boot up again now,it is trying to read from the…
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Emails sent while computer turned off
I've just got home after a week away. My computer was turned off and unplugged. When I turned it on and checked my emails I had over 250 emails returned as undelivered, and another 120 returned due to something about bulk sending rules. As far as I can see, most of them had no text, just characters, but some that did get…
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Memory upgrade advice for laptop
My OH's laptop is an E machines T6100 running Vista Home Basic and has 1gb memory, about 3 years old. It struggles at times especially when Windows and Kaspersky are both trying to do their own thing/upgrade, so I've been looking at upgrading the memory. The Crucial memory scanner couldn't recognize the machine but…
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my yahoo mail is spamming people!
What do I do? I've already run kaspersky, it picked up a trojan last night, which I figured was perhaps the cause of the problem, but today its happening again... Any ideas of what to do, and in what order? Any advice much appreciated, I am supposed to be catching up on work today, but I can't keep sending ads for viagra…
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Canon T3i compare to Canon 60D
I wanted to buy a new camera for my summer trip. Which one would be a better buy Canon T3i or Canon 60D?
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thunderbird printing problem
hi there when i print an email from with in Thunderbird it only prints on one quarter of the A4 page , it prints the full email page but obviously very small as its is only using a quarter of the page instead of the full page. when i print from any other application/software all is fine. i have been into printer preference…
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Firefox 4 - I desperately want back to my previous version, please.
Hello - if anyone can advise me how to get back from Firefox 4 to my previous version (?3.6.16) I shall be very grateful indeed. I clicked to 'upgrade' not realizing how unfamiliar and difficult it would be to adapt to the new version and its layout. I can't get my head round it at all and I would love to get back to the…
