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Using Smart Card Logon with Windows 7
I have a standalone Medion PC with Windows 7 Ultimate and a smart card reader. How can I make use of the smart card reader to enable Windows logon? I need an idiot's guide to this! What does it cost to buy a Smart card, or can I just use my debit/credit cards?
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Toshiba laptop battery dying
My Toshiba L350-170 laptop battery is dying (2.25 years old), it has a maximum battery life of 35 minutes fully charged and I have decided I must get a new one. I've searched on Google, and there are many companies offering equivalent batteries, but lots of these companies have no contact in UK and are probably Hong Kong…
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Selling a mac pro through apple's reuse and recycle program?
I want to sell my 3 year old mac pro as i don't need the power any more (need to downside to a mac mini :p ). I have just got what I consider to be a very fair quote from Apple's own reuse and recycle program - £939 Has anyone ever gone with this as a method of selling? I was looking for between £900-1000 for a private…
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Advent Verona Laptop Problems
Hi, 1st time I've ever used a forum so not sure if this is the right place. My 11 year old daughter has an Advent Verona Laptop and it has a white line running down screen. This has been happening on and off for months but the 1year warranty ended on 23/12/10. As the line doesnt disappear now she just decided to tell me.…
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Dell laptop warranty, actioning a repair...
but how does one do it? We can't find an email or phone number to ring anywhere. It's driving OH mad and he's about to throw the laptop to the ground. It's a Dell Inspiron, less than 6 months and the touchpad has gone. Help please :o
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Home Cinema 5.1 advice wanted.
A couple of Q's for those of you 'up' on these kinds of things. 1) would a Blu-ray player with upscaling play a DVD better than an ordinary DVD player with upscaling? (I am considering ordering either a Home theatre with 800 watts (Non Blu-Ray) or a bluray home theatre with 400 watts - I rarely play DVD's leta lone…
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Kodak page alignment - misalignment
Can anyone help, please? Have a new Kodak all-in-one (AiO ESP 5210). Test pages print perfectly, but documents are a nightmare. Huge gap at top, bottom of page lost. Normal left margin, words on right lost. I have altered margins on 'format' to no avail. Have rung Kodak help-line - closed, same with their 24 hours 'live…
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Firefox problem
I just change browser from IE to Firefox but it seems to be struggling to find stuff on the first attempt! I keep getting the following: http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff508/pvcpro/firefox.jpg Then after clicking retry it works, How come?
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youtube has broken. Sound ok but picture is blank.
Got a problem with you tube. It plays audio but no picture, the screen is just black. It was working fine yesterday I have tried un-installing flash player and re-installing and re-booting the machine but hasn't made a difference. The problem is the same on all internet browsers IE, chrome and firefox so would suggest that…
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Virgin TV and normal TV in my bedroom
Hi I've recently switched from Sky to Virgin. In my living room I had a sky box and this thing called an 'eye' - which transmitted a signal to my bedroom TV and I could watch the SKY channels without paying an extra subscription. Can I do this with Virgin? Should my 'eye' thingy work or is there another way I can set it…
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loosing connection
hi keep loosing my internet connection. when it fixes it i get this message, a network cable is unplugged or broken. detected. problem with wireless access point. fixed. i have one laptop connected wirelessly. can anyone help please? thankyou.
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Needing Tech-spertise!
Hi guys! Hoping all is well with everyone here. Well, the Tiffster is in dire need of your expertise, folks. I'd be very grateful for any advice you can give. I'm tech-info intolerant, (yes, I know I shouldn't be let near a PC!), so if you are able to help me, please would you put it into ''Tiff-speak'' as it were? I've…
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Trojan/Virus! Help!
I was looking at an obscure, American cookery website yesterday when I had a beep from my PC and a note from Avira saying that TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen had been detected. I pressed the 'deny access' button and thought that was that. Looking at the 'events' log on Avira today, it claims that TWO detections of this were made…
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DVD films - copy to PC - how to do this?
Hi, We have some films on DVD which we'd like to be able to copy to our PC/laptop so we can watch them on the move without having to carry around the DVDs. We've copied CDs before and when we put them in the drive it automatically comes up with a box asking whether we want to play or "rip" but when we put a DVD in it…
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Samsung P28 Hard drive help please
Hi all x I'm after a wee bit of help. I was given a 2nd hand Samsung P28 for my ds to use for homework. When I started it I got a blue screen ? I tried re-booting again and it is saying it can not find the hard drive. I had a wee search through the forums and it seems a common problem that may be fixable by fiddling with…
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Computer keeps freezing on certain things
Hi my Dell laptop keeps freezing when I try to do certain things such as watch something on Youtube or watch a video on Asos (a clothing site). This problem only started a couple of days ago and has never happened before. I am not very good with the technical side of computers so if anyone has any words of wisdom to sort…
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Opera Keeps Crashing- help!
This first started happening when I clicked on a link to an article in the New York Times from the digitalspy forum. There was a pop-up ad on the site- I x'd it, and almost immediately Opera crashed. It was a seven page article- and Opera crashed about 6 more times by the time I'd finished it. Now I have the same problem…
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choosing a portable hard drive help please
Hi, I need a portable hard drive for my photography course, it needs to be mac compatible but also windows as i have windows at home. I think I'll need 500gb really, and price is a very big factor sadly, if possible id like to spend £50 inc p&p at the most, if this is unrealistic please tell me! Ive seen this one..…
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Is Citrix right for us?
I joined a small, not for profit organisation (4 employees) a few months ago and we all use an outsourced Citrix solution. Our main uses are for Outlook access, and a small requirement for shared document access. I find it unbearably slow and unreliable. I travel frequently and I just can't access with mobile broadband for…
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Camcorder advice needed please
HI folks Looking to get a camcorder and would like some help please. Price, £200 ish max ? Not having even a clue about camcorders .... ease of use, would like something that can be pretty much point and shoot, stills option seems like a good idea. One that can be used to record several different scenes then plug into…
