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Needing a wireless printer
Hi, I'm looking to purchase a new printer. Currently I've got a Dell All-in-one 924 which is a pile of rubbish and ancient. The print is very jagged and no amount of head cleaning, alignment, etc can cure the problem. Add to that the high cost of replacement Dell cartridges (I've switched to refills - which seem to cause…
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Transferring music & contacts on to iphone 3gs
Hi, I have two main questions: 1) When I try to transfer music from my iTunes library including playlists to my iphone 3gs, a red diagnonal comes up and prevents me from transferring. 2) I have contact cards which appear as Outlook with contact names from my old Nokia E71. How can I import these contacts (about 200 or so)…
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How Do I Watch Movies On My Laptop on TV?
Hi all, I've not watched online films on tv or from laptop on tv before so I need some info please. I have a Sony Bravia KDL-32NX5 and will like to watch movies from my laptop Dell Inspiron 6000 as I've just subscribed to a love film one month trial. What cables do I need to get? I think on my laptop I have a VGA point and…
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Help Website Builder Programme For Beginners
Hello I am currently looking to build my own website for my dads small company. I did pay a guy £500 to do one but it really was awful. Anyway I am currently using 123 reg website builder but I am not finding it that easy, I have managed to upload one just now but I cant figure out how to add sub domains or a contact form…
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please help laptop won't work, lost uni work
hi can anyone help please. my daughters acer laptop will not work the on of button was sticking so not sure if that is anything to do with it but now when we turn it on we have the acer symbol up, and it says preparing to boot then it goes to a blank screen with a line at the top flashing, we can press f2 at the start and…
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McAfee - where to buy
Hi all Am afraid I'm only armed with half a story but here goes. Our annual subscription to McAfeee is up (it flags up every time we log on to the laptop). Hence we're 'keen' to renew. I intend to click on the renew button in the next few days but wondered is this the most efficient way of buiyng (i.e. are there third…
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Help please - VV slow getting onto MSE
hoping someone can help past few days when I click to come on MSE - it is soo slow compared to any other page - sometimes kicks me of internet for 30 secs or so did have same problem with a magazine page while ago anyone with idea what it could be and how do I fix it thanks
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Wifi to 3g 4g LTE dongles
Are these dongles slower than if you had the compatibility in the tablet computer?
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Recommend me an external hard drive
for storing my photos on please. I don't want to pay too much either (this is MSE after all :D )
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Best Wi-Fi for laptop
Is anyone aware of any decent deals for a few days Wi-Fi use for a laptop? When I travel up north, I usually walk to the Wetherspoons a mile away from were I stay which is rather inconvenient. The deal below from the main MSE site looked OK, but it is less than clear if O2 are still offering it when I click through from…
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Acer 5750
I have one of these laptops and find that the touch pad has a mind of its own when scrolling through web pages.I can be happily browsing and not touching the pad and another page will open up all on its own. I have had to send it back a couple of times for a problem with the keboard and both times told them about this but…
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laptop repair bill?
We have an Advent (I think its a Roma 2001), its DD's laptop, she's had it for 2 years. It overheats (more than likely fluff as I understand, so I'm going to get a can of air) but there are a couple of other problems with it. It doesn't charge its battery at all, so it has to have the mains charger in it all the time to…
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toolbars
can somebody help me please i'm not a very techie person. I have clicked something called menu toolbar and status toolbar and it has changed my page and my file edit etc have gone missing and my search bit for the internet has gone as well. I keep trying to get the menu toolbar and status toolbar to come back and I can't…
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Blocking channels on old sky digiboxes
I've got an old Pace digibox - BSKYB 2300 - and I want to block a few channels. I am not subscribing to sky but do have an old sky viewing card stuck in the machine. I know it probably is not needed but I have not got round to chucking it away yet. Anyway when I get to the parental control screen, a message comes up…
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Do I need a new windows..?? <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Hi folks......Having a problem starting the laptop. Its an Emachines E442 running windows 7. Really annoyed with Very.co.uk as this laptop is only 9 months old and the warranty states that I have to pay (£71.50 ) for software repairs..The following fault seems to me like 'software repair' is needed as it looks like its a…
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Best IPad Personal Finance App?
Hi all Trying to make the leap 100% to Apple away from winblows, but miss Excel for my personal finances. What is considered the best Ipad App for Personal finance, bills expenditure sums on a monthly roll? Cheers
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Epson Printer won't work with new compatible cartridges....please help!
Hello there - two months ago I bought an Epson SX430W printer, rigged it up and worked good as gold. Just changed all the cartridges to 'compatible' ones but printer now makes a weird clunking noise when 'charging' and does the most pathetic attempt at printing. What comes out looks like the dregs of a 10 year old…
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Buying new TV
Now that the price of big flat TVs has come down and our old CRT TV is showing its age we are thinking about buying a new TV. The choice is vast, plasma/LCD, HD/ HD ready and so on. Can anyone recommend a good website - somewhere to start my research explaining what means what. Looking for 40"-42" freeview a must,…
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Facebook account hacked. Is this common?
Hi, just got a pukka email from Facebook saying... "Your Facebook account was recently logged into from a computer, mobile device or other location you've never used before. For your protection, we've temporarily locked your account until you can review this activity and make sure no one is using your account without your…
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Linking lap top to home hub
Techie experts,wonder if you can help,i must state i no nothing about computers lol.My lap top had a new hard drive put in it but we can not link it back into the home hub all other computers and iphone working fine from the home hub !!Many thanks
