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Can someone recommend a wireless mouse please?
I'm looking for a wireless mouse that is a normal mouse size (not a small one), which has good performance and is comfortable to use, which has a small USB dongle and which has a good battery life (or is rechargeable). I want it for normal use, not gaming. The price is not important. The Logitech V450 is the highest rated…
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Recording Game play on PS3
Hi, wonder if someone can advise My son has just got into recording his Ps3 game play and posting on youtube etc, using an easycap device. He now whats to upgrade his equipment to either: 1) Hauppauge HDPVR video input adapter hi speed, or 2) Hauppauge USB-Live2 video input adapter,USB,NTSC,PAL What are the fundelmental…
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Can you recommend a computer tower?
Hi, After getting great advice on here before i'm back for more! My son is looking for a computer tower to use through his lcd tv. He wants one that can stream films/download music etc. Typical sort of stuff a 17yr old does. He has seen one on ebay - Argos outlet - for £250. An Acer m3400. It comes with 500gb harddrive,…
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Outlook help: inbox headers for different email addresses
Hi, This must have an easy answer ... I have set up inbox email headers for my different email addresses (can't remember how I set them up). I must have clicked on something because now in my inbox at the top I have just the header "Categories (none) 1913 emails" and all my emails are clumped together. I'd be grateful if…
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Laptop screen.
Hello :) This may be stupid but how do you clean your laptop screen? I have heard lots of advice like KFC wipe, water etc, but I want something that is safe. Any help would be appreciated.
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Garmin Nuvi 350 help
Trying to sort out the future mother in laws sat nav, anyone got any suggestions to fixing it or is a bin job. Its a Garmin Nuvi 350 Euro model. She assures me she hasnt done anything to it. For some reason its suddenly not holding a very long charge and also every time you connect the power supply, be it car charger,…
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Android Apps - what would you recommend?
I am new to the world of android phones and apps, just got a se x10 mini, getting an ipad too in a couple of weeks. What apps and games would people recommend for the phone? I have downloaded a few so far, particularly like fat booth, but would like to know what others think are good apps to save me trawling through the…
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No pictures in gmail
Hi hope someone can help out a senior citizen here with little knowledge of computers I have just changed over to gmail and when I get mail I can only see the text and not the pictures. It's just a box where pictures should be. I was with wanadoo and it was ok with them. Anybody know what i should be doing to make that…
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Be careful out there...
I ran Malwarebytes earlier and it came up with 147 threats! Now, sometimes when I run it it may come up with 1, but usually none. So I'm not sure what's happened in between the last scan 7 days ago and today, but that's a hell of a lot of nasties. My security is all up to date: Hardware router firewall, Windows Firewall,…
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Post Office Email And Setting It Up
Hi I was wondering if someone could help me please? Ive just switched broadband providers and am now with the post office. I have got a post office email address and my email before that was a sky email. Ive just installed windows live mail because I want to be able access both emails whilst im phasing the sky one out. Ive…
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Is It Safe To Leave A USB Hub Plugged In?
I have got my printer and mobile broadband dongle plugged into my PC using a USB hub and want to know if I can leave them attatched or if I need to unplug everything before I shut down the computer. I have XP home.
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Paypal
Can anyone tell me how to create a contract with them for if I need to purchase any thing on line,dont want to be going on a false site or anything like that and giving my credit card details to them, Thanks.
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Tomtom Sat Nav Problem
Connecting my Tomtom 720 Go sat nav to my computer to update it & I get a message on the computer USB device not recognised !!! Tried everything to get it to recognise the sat nav but no will do. Anybody any ideas whats up ?????????
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Half Price Canvas prints
I was having a look around for the cheapest way to print my digital photos onto canvas and noticed tesco has a photo site. They are running a half price offer at the moment so under £20. Think its only on for a few days.
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windows will not boot up
when i click on user name it comes up loading up your personal settings but will not go any futher what is stopping windows from botting up
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Netbook/laptop recommendation
I'm going a laptop/netbook for OH to use whilst she is away at the inlaws place. The only things its going to be used for is Skype and general browsing. I was looking at a netbook via ebuyer (emachine E350) but then noticed that tesco had the same machine cheaper (£159). They also recently had a laptop on offer for £299…
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Since switching to BT, Homeplug doesn't work as well...
Hi there, I used to be on O2 broadband and used a Netgear Homeplug to access broadband in a part of my house where the wireless doesn't reach, but managed to pretty much get the same speeds of up to 20MB that I got on the computer connected directly to the router, on the homeplug. But since switching over to BT, the speed…
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Facebook - someone is impersonating my daughter
Good morning. I wonder if someone is able to help me. A person who is calling herself a girl's name has taken my daughter's photos on Facebook and is using them as herself. Posing as my daughter (picture - not name) she has added lots of random young men and is telling them things like 'you look hot'. She is also saying…
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Before you buy direct from dell......
Im livid! After previously owning 2 Dell PC's I bought a new laptop from Dell this week and I had been really careful to do my research re spec, prices etc. I paid £450 for a Dell Inspiron R and today, on EBay, brand new ones are being sold by Zavvi for £269.00. (Front page deal of the day) Of course I told Dell I was…
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Please comment on HiJackThis log
My PC has fits of running slowly, sometimes a new screen takes ages to display - both as a web page or just opening a new application like Outlook or Word. From other postings on this board, I understand that there are some kind souls who can advise and require the following information: Windows XP, sp3 RAM 512 MB Commit…
