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Decent Laptop around £400
Hi all, I have been loitering on this site for ages and I love it - I thought i would take this question I had as a chance to say hi and to get involved! My other half bought me a laptop for Xmas and its already broke! The screens gone totally squiffy and its unuseable. Fortuantely the shop i got it from is giving me a…
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Microfiche Developing.
Hi all :wave: Does anyone know if it possiable to cheaply scan/develope microfiche slides>? I have data on about 100 slides that i would love to get viewable on the pc. I have tried them in a good scanner, but the images are too small. I spoke to a company today who gave me a nice quote of £600 :eek:, they must think im…
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microsoft firewall not working properly
Hi We have a laptop with Windows XP installed. It has Microsoft security essentials installed, but the firewall keeps turning itself off. We turn it on and a couple of hours later it is off again. I know that having more than one firewall installed can cause problems, but I cannot find another one. It is a few years old…
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Click here
I use Outlook Express for my e-mails which I receive ok. But when I get one from Talktalk advising me to "click here" to view my account it doesn't work. A partial black screen appears with white lettering asking for my e-mail address but nothing happens. I spent a long time on the phone to Talktalk yesterday and after…
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Need to connect an HP F2100 all in one printer to new laptop
Hope someone can help as not very PC savvy.. Kept the disc from the old laptop but it doesn't appear to support Windows 7 to connect with the printer. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to connect this. Thanks in Advance
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no wifi or @ lights showing on my Sky modem
Help please. We've had Sky broadband, with the same wireless router (little flat black box) for around 6 years now. I've had no problems up til now with it. Yesterday when I started up the laptop it showed no connection to the internet, and our home Sky connection is not showing at all in the list of available connections…
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Pooter swithing itself off!!
As above! Started by just switching monitor off, now the whole thing switches off and I have to reboot. Very frustrating when youare in the middle of something!! Oh, and complete technophobe here! Do you think it is terminal or repairable? :( Ta, RosieX
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logging into bt openzone/bt fon
my bt broadband home hub keeps losing connection, and bt are looking into it at long last. i've read on bt's site that as a broadband user, i can access their bt openzone hotspots for free? how do i do this? when i go onto list available networks, i click on bt openzone.. it then gives me a homepage with bt broadband, bt…
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Kindle or other ereaders?
What is the best one to have and ones to avoid? :mad:
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Does anyone know anything about websites?
Hi I am looking into starting up a web based business and I would like to know how reliable global7.co.uk are? I have gone through around 15 pages of info on google, but to be honest I don't know what I am looking at or for? Complete computer lingo thicko here lol Looking at other sites they have built/hosted for clients…
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New office and wireless printing
A friend has asked me to help him set up a new office. He already has a PC and a phone line but not broadband, so he is going to organise that with BT (he already pays them for his calls). I guess BT should supply a wireless router for free? He wants a wireless colour laser printer so that his visitors/guests can print…
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Help killed iphone 3
Just bought an iphone 4 & I'm (or was) selling mt iphone 3 tomorrow. I thought I would wipe it, so plugged it into itunes & clicked restore, got an error message now & it won't come back on, just a lit up screen with an apple logo on the front. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808 I think this is the problem but can't…
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xbox
Hi all My son is very upset he plays on the xbox most of the time and knows his games so today he found he had 1000 points gone and 2 rewards for a football game ( he hates football so would never buy a game ) so he phoned microsoft and was told it would take 25 days to sort it out . Has this happened to anyone else:mad:
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Android Tablet
Hi I got my 2 sons an andriod tablet for chrimbo and have been trying to install apps on them. When i log into the app market and try and install it says "no device attacted" something to that extent. Does anyone have any experience of this and can advise of how to install apps? Thank You
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Printer not printing word documents?
Hi all A friend has a printer problem which has me stumped and I wonder if you guys have any suggestions. He uses Microsoft works word processor and is trying to print out a doc, his printer goes through the motions as if it is going to print and then just sends out a blank sheet. I told him to do a notepad doc and a word…
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Wordpress help
Hi there, i need help for my first online serious money making blog.(LOL).it is clear that you really can make money if you know what you doing.I have researched for last 1 month and come to a conclusion that i should give it a go again.Last time i made few bucks (300+) in 2 month and lost interest after that due to…
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Not getting local tv
I have noticed recently that my Sky digital box is no longer giving me my local tv channels , so im getting midlands news while living in tyne and wear which should be northeast news . This has happened on ITV and Bbc does anyone know a fix or why this is happening ?
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Freeview channel missing in new house
Hello I've just moved to a new house and have plugged in my Techwood freeview tv into the aerial socket, and despite retuning it twice I have only got about a 3rd of the channels available on Freeview. Any suggestions on what to do to get rest of them? I'm in Wales and only get digital channels. Thanks in advance
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Taking advantage of poor product labelling...
First time thread, long time lurker, never posted... So I just bought a new Creative 620headset from Argos because I had a £30 gift card lying around that was about to expire, and I had lost my mic for my Fatal1ty headset Now the item is described as a Creative 620 USB headset. The headset is however not USB at all. I…
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USB turntables - any advice?
Am thinking of acquiring one of these for a very specific purpose namely I need to produce some compilation CDs of tracks from my old vinyl LPs. I'm wondering whether anyone here has any experience of these and can offer any comments.
