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If you look at someone's facebook and Twitter pages
do they know ? Its nothing sinister and she's not out to court trouble but a girl I know is interested to know whether a horse she sold is ok. They fell out over some issues with payment for him but she still wants to know he is ok. She doesn't want the girl in question to know she's been looking and they aren't set up as…
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I feel guilty of spending too much...
I feel guilty of spending too much time playing online games. I used to sit on my behind all day playing networking games. I would miss appointments, show up late for work because I'd be playing the game late the night before, even call out from work pretending to be sick so I could play games. I was a bad sinner. Now, I…
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File Sharing driving me MAD
I recently re-installed windows XP. Im now trying to set up some old directory and printer shares again. I have shared the directories, activated the guest account but the client cannot even connect to my machine. From the client I can ping both the IP address and computer name (so I know its resolving the machine ok). But…
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Laptop Broken (Still under Warranty)
Hi All, We purchased a HP Laptop from Currys last year, it is less than a year old and yesterday my boyfriend knocked if off the table :mad: and it's now broken. When we turned it back on it says something about the hard-drive and boot disk? We still have in under warranty and we also have contents insurance from Lloyds…
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High cp usage,mozilla plugin.exe
Whilst browsing on my laptop today the above message popped up on my screen,any ideas what it means and do i have to do anything,thanks.
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Problems Wireless and New Laptop
I got a new laptop at the weekend and it seems to be working really well. However, I cannot find the security code for my Netgear wireless router to connect it to the internet. I have tried feeding in the Mac code on the router to no avail. My old laptop connected no problem so I must have had the code for that at the…
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netbook win7 starter question
I just bought a netbook with win 7 starter, I use a few apps where the window on the app cannot be resized and sometimes the "apply" button is at the bottom below my taskbar, with my old laptop and full win 7 I could expand the taskbar up so the window resized but you cant do that with starter, any ideas to overcome this?
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Tv guide all to pot !
Hi All I posted a thread a wee while ago saying that I couldn't get the listing for 'yesterday' and a couple of other channels on my digibox.. (I bought it from asda a few years ago) and it was suggested that it might be the aerial.... well, yesterday, I happened to go the wrong way on the guide and a spotted the…
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Itunes will not connect to internet
I have tried running iTunes today to download some podcasts but i keep getting the error that says it cannot connect. This has only been the case since I followed the malware/spyware instructions at the top of this thread, and from closed's instructions. Can anyone advise what might be the problem and how to fix it. Thanks…
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bbc website problems
anybody else unable to get on bbc.co.uk just now?
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inspiron mini
I have a new inspiron mini When I use it ( on power ) the screen keeps going from bright to dark and back again after a couple of minutes. Anyone any idea why this is?
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compaq cq60430sa not working
Hi, my son has got the above laptop which has stopped working. When you turn it on a message appears saying "disk read error" We are unable to start in safe mode,the only other screen we can access is the "phoenixBIOS setup utility". When we goto the diagnostics page and run the "primary hard disk self test" it fails. Does…
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To Skype or windows live
My son told me he has just downloaded Skype for free and via his laptop has been able to see/hear someone in Australia. Having said that, with a built in webcam with microphone, one would assume he could have done that? using Windows Live or Yahoo Messenger. So what makes Skype any better?
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Computer Help?
I'm new and not sure where this thread should go, sorry! I brought a brand new PC from a reputable seller on ebay for £580 on the 17th of January. Then 3 days after I recieved it, it broke! I had it sent back for repairs and again, it was fine for a few days but since then I've had nothing but trouble with it, sometimes it…
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Problems connecting Blackerry 8900 to Laptop
Having real problems connecting my blackberry 8900 to my laptop. Ive searched various webstie all much saying the same thing. Ive downloaded blackberry desktop manager connected the phone to the computer via USB but I never get the message of ‘turn on mass storage device’. Ive loaded up the desktop manager and clicked on…
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Email and Internet access on the move
I'm self employed and need to have internet access whilst on holiday in UK and abroad so that I can deal with any client's problems that happen. I've got a netbook PC which I've used successfully when the holiday cottage or apartment has wifi, but am really struggling when they don't. I've tried mobile broadband dongles…
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Spotify thinks I'm not in UK!?!
Hi guys need help. I was trying to get spotify but when I clicked "Get Spotify" I got a message saying Spotify not yet available in my country but I clicked through and it says available in UK so where it thinks I am I don't know! I posted on Music board initially but they said better posting here, one reply suggested it…
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imac-snow lepoard, or lion?
I will be getting an Imac in 2 weeks time, but i have just noticed that Apple are due to launch a new opertaing system in june/july, namely Os X lion. My query is, is it worth hanging on until then, or is it worth getting snow lepoard? All i intend to use it for is email, internet and the odd bit of photo editing. TIA,…
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Blue Screen on Resume in Windows 7
I have a Toshiba Satellite C660-11K When I bought it I had problems with the keyboard not working properly but this was fixed by doing a BIOS update. Now and then it would bluescreen but I just considered this a normal occurrence of using a computer if it happens now and then. I hibernate my laptop and recently when…
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small business office - what pcs & hdd to buy?
Hi, My brother and I are starting a new business that will originally be based in my home office. At the moment I simply have an old desktop connected directly (with a cable) to to the virgin broadband router. (Virgin have now supplied a wireless router. though not installed it yet.) We will be using a records management…
