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Need to decide cd, DVD or memory stick
Following all my post re saving photos - Two parts are decided re saving my digital photos from our iphone4 & from our digital camers . thnx to u all. 1) I will buy us some external hard drives & 2) I wil set us up Internet storage on flickr & save on there. Then monthly we will copy new stuff that month from the harddrive…
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searchqu removal
Hi, I've tried to remove searchqu as it keeps changing my home page and there's lots of other things on the toolbar I don't like. I've done the standard 'tools' options - reset home page, but it doesn't reset and reverts back. I want to delete the whole searchqu program but I can't find it in my list of installed programs…
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computer novice - help needed please
ok, this is probably a stupid question, but as i dont know the answer please excuse my ignorance. when i leave my computer idle for a while the screen goes black. how do i set it so that this doesnt happen. its not a problem most of the time, but sometimes my little daughter likes to watch movies and it would be easier if…
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Dead PC ??
What is going to cause a PC to stop functioning - after 10 seconds of running ? It appears - not to kill the power - that stays on We lose video and power to HDD/DVD It can't be heat related - since the fans are running It can't be memory related - the PC boots up OK What else is there - that could cause a PC to die -…
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Google chrome instead of Internet Explorer
Hi - Wish to do pc clean up as in the 2nd sticky (how to speed up slow/infected pc) and malware/spyware removal as in the 3rd sticky. I use Google Chrome as my web browser - does it make any difference to the instructions?? Thanks alot - Urk
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AVG error message
Started yesterday when laptop turns on a box pops up saying "An unspecified error in AVG" then the option to send this to AVG, tick yes or no, Does anyone know what this is please? Ran both Malware and AVG last night both was ok. Thanks.
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Speaker problem with my laptop
My speakers wont play music out of them but when i plug in my earphones they play fine?
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Second-hand Apple computer / writing an app
Hey, I've been searching the internet for a while now and feel like I'm going round in circles, hopefully someone here can help me out :) I want to write an app for an iphone, no real reason, just thought it would be a challenge. The problem is that I don't have £1500 for a new apple computer and (as I understand it) the…
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Any Real Player buffs?
Just launched Real Player. In the library many of my clips will not open. " Real Player cannot locate the specified clip ". Tried bits and pieces but still not working. Call me mad if you will, I noticed a few days back that my hard drive was busy all the time. Any connection I wonder. Yep, I know it sounds barmy but who…
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Rechargeable batteries,which ones do you recommend?
Can anyone recommend a brand of rechargeable batteries I need them for my camera which takes 4 AA batteries its a Fuji Finepix s5700? I have tried vapex 2900 mah cells and I after reading how great they are supposed to be I feel a little disappointed after a full charge and having been left in their box for a couple of…
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Microsoft fishy sales woman...
Hi, folks have a new laptop and rang Microsoft today to help install their office software(thanks for the help on here they tried but it wasn't working for them), anyway it was installed fine and a few hours later a woman from Microsoft rang them back with urgent news of a trojan on their laptop. My Dad allowed them access…
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Arnova tablet not charging
I bought an Arnova 10 G2 tablet for dd just before Christmas from HMV. The charger has always been loose and wobbly but last few days its got worse and only charging if it's balanced at exactly the right angle! Tonight it feels like something has come loose from the charger and is stuck inside the tablet and now it's not…
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would like a new computer, help needed please
ok so my laptop has officialy died, im officialy broke well on maternity leave anyway so s good as. i have looked at some computers but dont understand all the different stuff and generral if theres one i like cause it looks good the its lots of money. i dont use it for much just shopping, emails , mse, facebook an…
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Virgin Media price hike letter today - who else got one?
I am on Phone + Broadband M and got an approx 12% price hike letter today. Are they targeting the lower spenders? [ edit - needs to go to the Broadband forum - but where did the delete button go? ]
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Problem with videos saving to pc and playing
I've just transferred Grandmas videos from her iphone to her pc. They won't play - the error message says - the file might be in a format that movie Maker doesn't understand or corrupted. Unfortunately you won't be able to publish your movie until you remove this file. Error 0x87160129. Can anyone help so that I can fix…
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Monitor help
Samsung Model No.2243SN. House 3pin plug circuit shorted out with computor on (not comp.& monitor plug) Circuit breaker re-set. comp working but not monitor. Checked plug fuse ok, Is there an internal fuse in the monitor that can be accessed or is the monitor had it.Can anyone help? Thanks No replies, looks like a new…
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Best way to get Microsoft Office 2007
I need to get 2007 Microsoft office as cheap as possible for my nephew. He is studying at college and he needs us to have the same software as college as we keep running into problems when he's saved work on old versions etc. So we need 2007 Microsoft office on his laptop and Grandmas pc as he can't always be sure where he…
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sd card will it work in my new camera
I have a new camera and will be using my sd card from my old camera,will I have to do anthing with my sd card to make my new camera accept it?
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XP - Service pack
Hi, I have a pc which is on XP and a laptop which runs Windows 7. Since having the laptop, I only really use the pc when I want to print something as my printer is only attached to that and I don't have a wi-fi printer. That's ok, not bothered about changing it, at least it keeps the pc working. Both of them have automatic…
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ITV Player
I'm having a strange problem with ITV Player, on the main PC, running Windows 7. No programmes will play, just adverts. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the broadband connection itself (Virgin Media cable broadband, using a D-Link DIR-615 wi-fi router), as there is no problem playing back programmes using a Windows 7…
