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Poor wireless signal-upgrade wireless card on HP laptop?
I've set up a wireless laptop for a friend, but having problems getting a decent signal from 02 router (upstairs front of house) to laptop (downstairs rear of house). Have moved the router around, but still can't get more than a 'weak' or 'poor' signal, sometimes it drops altogether. It's purely a signal strength issue, as…
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Power point question
How to explain. erm. When I make up my own power point presentation and slide show and timings etc, then I email to a friend but she then had to go into the file and menu etc to press play show, How do I do it so that when she download email it just comes up automatically as a slide show?
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cant send email
I haven't been able to send email since Sunday. I receive them fine but I keep getting this message- An unknown error has occurred. Subject 'for andrew', Account: 'pop.ntlworld.com', Server: 'smtp.ntlworld.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '421 Cannot establish SSL with SMTP server 81.103.221.11:465, SSL_connect error…
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what is searchqu.com/406
Does anyone know what this is? " searchqu.com/406 " Whenever I try to search this pops up in the address bar. Is it a virus? Thanks pam
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Wifi adapter failed
Can anyone advise here. I have spent the past hour going through various checks with my ISP MAAF because the wireless connection can't be made with my laptop (I hope i'm explaining this ok to you). I have a good connection with my desktop. The advisor told me I need to go to a PC specialist to have this looked at. Can…
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No picture on panasonic DVD and hard drive recorder
Hi I have a panasonic DMR-EX83. I turned it on today and there was sounds but no picture. I have check all connections and re-tuned it. I have also check signal strength in the menu section which is strong. Des anyone have an ideas? Thanks
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Speaker system
Hi I bought a new tv and blu ray player and now after some kind of speaker system. Does anyone have any ideas on which to get - i dont want anything expensive (really dont want to spend more than £100), just something better than my tv - and main thing is speakers look good thanks in advance
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Epsonstylus photo 830 problem
Epsonstylus photo 830 I have aproblem with this printer. When I try to print it says there is a paper jam but there isn't. I have checked the ink levels and they are ok. I have tried to run all the nozzle checks ect but of course I can't print the results. Occasionally the paper will start to move into the printer but only…
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Sky Router
The @ keeps flashing red and we lose connection, any ideas anyone? would it be the router or sky's broadband or maybe just the weather
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searchqu
Hi somehow my search engine has changed from google to searchqu. I use firefox so I go tools, add-ons, extensions, searchqu toolbar, remove. Then, tools, options, and then I reset my home page back to google but when I go back to it, it's still searchqu It doesn't show up in programmes so i can't delete it there....has…
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Dual Monitor Cable
I want to try to use dual monitors with Windows Vista installed and do not know which cable to try. Here is the setup. PC has integrated graphics but I put a separate Sapphire Radeon X1550 graphic card in. This card has DVI output and VGA output but after switching off the onboard graphics output in the bios, the only way…
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recording tv??
Hello I've just bought a new Samsung tv which has freeview and freesat built in to it. We are watching the freeview but want to record some other channels / record a series etc but when I press record on the remote it comes up with a message saying I don't have this facility. I'm thinking that I need something like a USB…
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Laptop screen gone very dark
Hi everyone. Just came home from work and turned my laptop on and could see it come on and then goes black. If you look very closely you can still see the images and icons, but very faint. I have plugged the laptop into the TV (via Hdmi) and works fine (typing via this now) Any ideas what the issue here is? Looking on…
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help- pls, cant send emails (non techie)
hi, have 2 ntlworld email accounts (virgin) accessed via thunderbird, i'm still recieving emails, but for past 4 days cant semd / reply... i get "connection to smtp server smtp.ntlworld timed out " i reset the pc to the settings it had on the 2nd jan (when it was working fine) but still doesnt send would be grateful for…
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Can't install XP SP2 or 3
I've been given a PC and done a clean install of XP Pro on it. Problem I'm having is installing any of the service packs. Windows update needs SP3, SP3 needs SP2. SP2, I downloaded and tried to install but it fails. I don't seem to be allowed to post the whole of svcpack.log here as it is too long but I've included an…
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Windows XP Pro
Hi I just had a virus wipe out the games on my pc at work, I've managed to reinstall freecell, solitaire, spider solitaire and mshearts. Now I used to have another game (my favourite when trying to pass the time of day!) but for the life of me can't remeber what it was called. It was another card game and you had to stack…
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Netflix on samsung c6540 smart tv
Hi, I have opened up a netflix account but cannot find the app anywhere on my tv (lovefilm is there and works fine) . I am certain that it was there before. I have searched google but cannot find any help. I know I can play it through my xbox but it would be easier through the app. Thanks
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Adobe update phone scam (fill in the blanks pls)
My step father was using his PC last night, he somehow was informed of needing an Adobe update, this failed, he apparently received a phone call from a woman claiming to be from Microsoft who wanted money to fix the problem, during the call he noticed all the desktop icons disappearing. Now this is just bizarre, i've heard…
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Photo Catalogue software
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MSE annoying feature
I've used this MSE website for some time now, but one thing really annoys me about it. When using the Forums, if your cursor lingers over the title of a thread you get a box appearing giving details of that particular subject. I do find this feature particularly annoying and have to keep my cursor parked at the edge of the…
