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Locked Out By CHKDSK
Last night, my XP system wouldn't power off, so I had to do a hard shut down. This morning, it has automatically gone into chkdsk, which is bad news as I've never got this utility past Stage 3 when trying it myself. Sure enough, that's where it seems to have stuck again: no hard disk activity that I can discern. So, I…
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re-safe mode
Hi, Fortunately I have not had to use safe mode, but that leaves me vunerable should I have to, because I don,t know for sure How; Can I do so as a test, just to be prepared for an emergency, and what,s the best/safest way of doing it.? I know pressing f8 brings up the safe mode option, from then on I would be lost.Hope…
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Aaaaaaah, Can't Remember Password and Locked out of PC
I'm so stupid. the keys began falling off the laptop, and it soon became unusable. I bought a new keyboard, cos th eYou/tube video made it look dead easy....ha! It wasn't, I couldn't do it, try as I might. Anyhoo, after many months of gathering dust, having a go, gathering more dust, I stuck it on Ebay. It has sold, and I…
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Humax PVR9150T-G not automatically updating
I have the above which is not updating either automatically over air or when I try to update directly from the PVR. I have tried to contact Humax, by email, without any success (I wont phone an 0870 or 0844 etc. number as it costs me too much money). I phoned their sales office this morning and they hung up on me. (Good…
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iPad Tethering
Hi, I think the answer to this question is 'NO', but I'll ask it anyway.... I have an iPhone 3GS which I can tether to a Laptop, iPad etc and use the iPhones 3G connection to get onto the Internet using the Laptop / iPad etc. Now I also have an ipad 3G, I bought a Three network Sim which I can get a lot fast 3G speed…
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windows live email program - keeps downloading same emails
hi there on my vista laptop i use windows live for my email, when i download my email and sort through them, then when i next come to check my emails it will download the emails i have already downloaded. many thanks
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Changed my Ram, now the screen won't work!
I was kindly given an old Sony Vaio laptop, worked OK but was quite slow, so decided to upgrade the RAM from the standard 512MB to 2x1GB, a few sites said this would work as did Crucial too. Put the RAM in with no issues, however now the laptop does power up but screen is black. I tried putting the old RAM in but that made…
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Do a barrel roll
Put 'Do a barrel roll' into the Google search box. PS. Firefox and Chrome users only.......................enjoy.
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Reinstalling Windows Vista
Hello I have a Toshiba Satelite L350-170 laptop, nearly 3 years old. It's been playing up blue screen twice in a week, closing itself down etc....I have been advised to reinsall vista, I have the recovery discs, 2 that I made when I got the laptop..... This is something I have never done before, is there any instructions i…
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T-shirt design software
mrsbritishboy is after a good t-shirt designing/photo editing program for her pc to have a play with. I know from years ago Photoshop was a good one, but cost loads, are there any decent 'almost as good' programs that do 90% of the things but dont cost £300+? Will be going on her Samsung laptop with windows 7 if that…
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i pod help please !!
i have had a ipod shuffle for a while and have just bought an ipod nano second hand. However when I plug it into the laptop and try to view and transfer the music it wont let me as the nano was previously registered to someone else. Any ideas how i get around this?
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dual screen SOLVED
just installed an additional screen on pc but 2nd screen is just showing the window splash screen. when i uninstalled the amd vision engine control centre i had dual screens working but once i re-installed i went back to just the splash screen on screen 2. i have windows 7 and onboard ati hd 4250 graphics with both screens…
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LLU and ADSL2+ Speeds
Hi folks we have just moved to Talktalk who have just unbundled our exchange, they stated that we can get 11.5-15 Mbps, sadly we are only getting 6.5-7, the router stats say 28/14 attenuation down/up and snr 14.5/11.8 according to kitz we should ;) get much more anyone else got any views please?? PS at least it is the same…
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Help with registering domain name & web hosting
I am hoping to make a website (for listing info, maybe 5 web pages needed) but I'm very confused after searching on Internet. I hope you lovely MSEs could offer me some help. 1. I'd like to register a domain name on 123-reg. The price for my chose name is £7 for 1 year, 17 for 2 yrs, 27 for 3 yrs... Why is it more…
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How to record a call on iphone
Without putting the legal aspects of it aside could anyone recommend any software and/or hardware they know of or have used to record a two way call? I have Googled but I keep getting pointed to applications which are long gone. Many thanks
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network adapter-drivers
ive just installed windows7 on my brothers pc,but cant get connected to the internet, im getting a message saying windows could not detect drivers for network adapter... any help would be great, thanks inadvance
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Ethernet cable, is it all the same?
Hi the wireless connection to DS1 PS3 is very poor- a lot of lag (so I am told) I was thinking about buying some ethernet cable from ebay to run from the router to the ps3. I wanted white so that it wouldn't show up so much and was also thinking about getting the flat cable so that it would go underneath the doors and the…
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Very slow laptop - Hijack This log included
Hello clever techie folks! Like title says very slow running laptop; hanging on tabs and pages and between programs; slow closing pages etc etc. Updated, ran and fixed all the following: Avast AV, Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot S&D, Glary and Crap Cleaner. And here is the HJT log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis…
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Just trialed Unthink.com - not too keen
Just wondered if aanyone else was trying the Beta of Unthink.com (The anti-Facebook social networking site)? I've just given it a small go. It looks great and makes the right noises about privacy but upon looking at adding details to my profile, when I decided to not share my age I received this message:- "Please keep in…
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Acer Liquid Metal £140 - too good to be true?
As it's around £300 everywhere else Expansys seems TGTBT. Anybody know if Acer are planning a major price drop on the 14th (date Expansys are selling them)?
