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Anyone heard of a 'Monitor Miser'?
Tried googling it to no avail.... TIA Alex
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Problems with fitting stereo to BMW118d
Hi all, I have had a aftermarket JVC stereo fitted to my BMW 118d, but after 6 visits to the local audio specialists the are unable to solve why the stereo will not hold its presets. As soon as the car is switched off it loses all radio stations and EQ settings. I have brought a £50 cambus lead and its still doing it. They…
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Can't delete an unwanted folder
Last year I did a clean install of Vista on my Gateway laptop after a series of problems with it. As part of the install a folder entitled "Backup" was created and installed on my C drive. I realised later that this was avoidable and unnecessary but didn't bother too much about it at the time. I now wish to delete this…
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Slow connection to router
I have moved house, I had broadband with Eclipse in the old house and had a router that I plugged my PC into using a ethernet cable, everything worked well. I have now moved to a friends who already have broadband with Tiscali, when I plug my PC into their router then internet access is so slow it is unusable. If I go onto…
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Laptop Batteries
I've heard a lot of conflicting advice about the best way to maintain rechargeable batteries in such things as mobile phones and laptops. What's the best way of prolonging their life? I've got a laptop that I rarely use, should I still be charging it up or is it ok to leave it unused?
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Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware
Their latest scam? They detect your user-agent string from your web browser and display a fake Firefox security alert if you are using the Mozilla Firefox web browser. If you are a Firefox user and see a warning about viruses on your computer, you will know it is fake. Firefox does not include a virus scanner inside of it…
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auto mask or fuzz out text on jpgs
i have a few thousand jpgs with the date time embedded in the image - its not data that i can edit out - its part of the image. is there any s/w or method ican use to mask or fuzz out the date in bulk - the ata is always in the same place and size so I can specify where and how big an area to blur out. any advice welcomed
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How do I add a photo to a post please?
How do I add a photo to a post please? When I click the "insert image" button it says "please enter the url of your images" Thanks
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Desktop screen- an afterthougt or not?
Dear Techie people, I'd like to ask your advise. My 9(?) year old Dell Dimension 2400 desktop is becoming too slow to work with. I'm a fairly basic PC user though it is a bit of a life line to me. Typically I email with Outlook Express, Google anything that catches my interest, have Norton 360, bank, buy from Amazon,…
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Help needed on audio driver
Ok, firstly I'm in the middle of restoring my pc, it completely crashed today. Had to reinstall windows 7 so far found two problems, 1 hard drive seems to be the main problem. When not connected pc boots up fine. Second problem on starting to reinstall programmes and drivers etc. I have no audio. I cannot get onto any of…
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Video Senders
I have got two sets (different makes) of 2.4GHz Video senders. When I use one transmitter to send the signal to the other two receivers I only get a good picture on the correct paired receiver. The picture on the other receiver is blurred and no matter how much I adjust it I cannot get a good picture. Am I correct in…
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Problems with Trust USb Keyboard
Hello MSE users I am having a problem that driving me nuts, I bought a usb Trust Keyboard on thursday and when i opened up the box and tried it out with my computers it worked fine,However after a reboot on my laptop the keyboard refused to work or power up on any of my machines I took it back to where i purchased it and…
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un - jailbreaking and iphone/ipad
I now have an Ipad that has been jailbroken. If I now sync it with itunes will it lose all the items that were installed when it was jailbroken? Thanks.
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Wordpress posting problem
Wonder if anyone here uses Wordpress and have had problems when posting? I have updated to the latest version of Wordpress (3.1.3) tried to upload a photo, which did not work and when I came to write an entry it would not allow me to publish - the only option was to submit for review and even that did not work as an error…
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SLR digital camera recommendations
Looking for an entry level SLR digital camera. Any recomendations of what would be good at entry level and where is the best place to buy (Essex / London based) high street, on line? What lenes are good to start with? Are all SLR's auto focus these days? Would an old lens still fit new bodies? Say 30 years old? Thanks.
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Can't open saved documents
When I try to open certain saved documents I get : "the requested operation requires elevation". On this laptop I have Vista but did not buy Office after the trial period. I save documents in Notepad but noticed that the saved documents have the Open Office logo. What should I do to avoid this problem?.
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Netbook
I am looking to buy a cheap little netbook nothing flash or fancy just fast enough to get online and chat on messenger. I got about £180 to spend anyone know where they sell them cheap?
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I want one of these!
Can't find a release date but these things look brilliant, finally be able to beat those american teenagers! http://www.razerzone.com/talon
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Slow Laptop
Morning My kids laptop is very slow to start up and runs slowly. I've run Hijack Log - but it makes no sense to me. Would anyone be able to interpret this for me and advise how to speed up laptop? Many Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 10:10:09, on 30/05/2011 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT…
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Facebook Problems
I am just about tearing my hair out with continuous problems I am having on Facebook and I cannot find any answers in the help pages and I wonder if anyone else is having the same probs. The probs first started in February when I uploaded some pics from my holiday. Put them all in an album (71 pics) and changed my profile…
