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Should I upgrade or buy a new laptop
Hi there I currently own a 3/4 year old laptop - HP Pavilion dv6500 running on Windows Vista - and Microsoft Word and Excel 2003! It overheats and crashes with a white fuzzy screen fairly regularly, the fan goes in overdrive then i can use it after 5 mins, this happens when im just watching iPlayer or youtube! Now my…
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Ignored Support Requests by freeparking.co.uk - HELP!!
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can help with a rather troublesome issue I'm having transferring my .com domain and changing the DNS info. In 2003, I registered my .com domain with a company called freeparking.co.uk (a reseller of Melbourne IT). I used to host with SwitchMedia, but as they have let me down on numerous…
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Hide all your computers/mess IKEA sale 75% off Alve corner workstation
A few have posted about this Thursday's 75% of sale in ikea in the grabbit section, but thought I'd put a post on for any one who has suffered "growth" in PC related stuff like me over time in a room that is meant to be for another purpose (dining room in my case), but wants to instantly hide it all away within seconds.…
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Operating system not found.. Help!
Hi, Well it looks like my laptops died on me, it's been playing up for a few weeks but today when you switch it on it wont get past the blue start up screen. Eventually it comes up with a black screen saying operating system not found. Can anyone help?! Thanks
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Help, I cant log into natwest online banking
Hi,, can anybody help, for over a week now, i have not been able to get into my online banking with natwest, when i try i all i get is redirected to a page displaying this message:- Key Facts Browser navigation tools have been disabled within our online banking services for security reasons - please use the navigation…
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External hard drive gone wonky
Hi Apologies if I am posting in the wrong place. My iomega external hard drive has gone wonky! I can see the files on it, but when I click on them I get a pop up saying that the drive is not formatted and do I want to format it now. The drive has all my music and photos and other files on it :eek::eek:. Any ideas of things…
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Laptop keeps crashing on start up, help please
it also keeps putting horizontal lines through my curser, or on the whole screen, this comes and goes if i get it to actually start up. I have run hijack this if you would please take a look Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 18:07:26, on 27/06/2011 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE:…
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Amplifier for reducing distortion.
Hi, I'm in the process of recording music from an old game on the PS2 to my laptop and need to reduce the sound going in because it comes out distorted. I'm running the Ps2 rca in to a behringer 202 device and then in to my laptop, using Audacity to record the music on. The track plays really distorted so I think I need…
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iphone
hi i brought my hubby a secondhand iphone today the guy said u just conect to itunes then of you go but it wont conect as its asking for password on phone which i havent got has anyone got any tips ? thanks in advance
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Bit of a strange Aerial problem if anyone can help?
Ok i had a new tv arrive today with built in freeview. I disconnected the old tv put this one in its place tuned it all in and it found all the channels we get round here but when its comes to watching them it is loosing signal all the time. I thought this was strange as the old tv has built in freeview and works perfectly…
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Dell XPS 8300 i5&i7/64 bit/1TB/8GB - any advice?
Hi guys I've seen a few Dell XPS 8000 series desktops for around £470-£560 delivered. http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?rn=1107&SC=lowToHigh&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh e.g. XPS 8300 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT) Intel Core i7-2600 processor(8MB Cache, 3.4GHz) Hard Drive 1TB Serial…
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Cannot Redeem DVD on itunes
Help.........son just got ipod touch, which this site helped me in linking to my orange router - way hay !! Now have another problem.......can anyone advise / update me on redeeming a dvd we bought (Night at the Museum 1 + 2) on itunes ? Have inserted disk and whilst I am running itunes, it tells me I need a higher…
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Desktop has stopped working!
Post deleted. Problem resolved itself.
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laptop battery
brought 3 laptops new nealy a year ago now and one of the batterys has gone rung the company to get a new one and they sad i would have to bye a new one as they are only 6 months garantee on the batterys there is nothing in the paper work that says this and the other laptops are ok is this wright and what can i do
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Can a Nintendo DS go online, if so - how?
My nephew asked me yesterday if I could put his Nintendo DS online? I said I would find out for him and get back to him. Is it possible and if so how do you get it online?
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Can not install coupon printer
Please help me. I am trying to intall the coupon printer from supersavvyme.com to print of coupons. I have it installed on my laptop and it works fine BUT it will not install an my grandads new PC, He is running windows 7 (64 bit) I have tried everything I can think of, I posted on this on the copupon thread and they…
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Rundll32?
Hi - can someone help - My dad has a new pc (windows 7 OS) and wanted a spell check put on (his old pc used to let him spell check his FB posts etc but not sure which windows it was . . . ) Anyway - my OH has downloaded a program called "tiny spell" and now we keep getting the "rundll32" warning on McAfee. Quick google…
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Iphone/ipad email probs plus one and one...
I've got an iphone and an ipad, and until recently I was able to send my emails from both via IMAP (please forgive me, I'm a bit techno-rubbish). In the past week, my ipad has been fine, allowing me to send out and send in, but the iphone has been playing up and will only allow mail to come in. I've been to O2 and to the…
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Laptop problem - no web pages showing.
Hi My brother has a laptop. He can get it to connect to the internet but unable to view his homepage or any websites. A message appears: 'Acer empowering technology framework launcher has stopped working' What does this mean? Thanks.
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Good sites to learn more about digital photography?
With thoughts on the previous poster, i have good success using my new camera, a casio H5, but would love to learn more or get tips on better shots, does anyone know a good site for this? Thanks