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Start up problem with laptop
My laptop sometimes hangs on start up. It gets as far as loading the desktop icons then sometimes hangs, the little light that shows its working flashes but not as bright as usual and the little round circle that shows it woring is going round on the screen but it doesn't go any further than that. I suspect its when its…
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Can anyone recomend an automatic form filler tool
Hi, I dont know what the name is for the product that I need, when I looked for password manager I got a tool that would generate random passwords. This is not what I need, I used to have an automatic form filling facility, but my husband has loaded avg security and this option seems to have dissappeared. I am not very…
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Can't get Dropbox to work; help please.
I have to review, select and edit some 250 'photos, taken by a friend. They have put these 'photos into a Dropbox folder. I joined Dropbox at my friend's invitation. There are no 'photos in my folder. When I use my friend's email address and password I can see the folder of 'photos but not do anything else. How do I get my…
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desktop help
my friends has a 8 yr old desktop, today she had NTLDR is compressed press control, alt delete which she has done and nothing. i have gone to see her and taken a windows xp recovery disk when it boots from cd it says 1 H:\MiniNT 2H:\I386 which windows instalation would you like to log onto. i have tried both but getting…
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The Best Place for Audiobooks?
Hello everyone. I very much enjoy reading but find it increasingly difficult with the M.E and brainfog and my husband suggested Audiobooks after seeing an advert on TV. The advert was for Audible. However, they only offer a one book a month membership which I'm not too happy with. I know there are alot of websites out…
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Repairing a wireless router?
Is there any way of checking and repairing a wireless router or is it one of those throw away items? The reason I ask is that we are on Virgin broadband with my PC and my daughters laptop, now every thing seems fine with the PC but with the laptop it seems to lose the internet every now and again but within the last few…
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New ipad woes
Help am reasonably technie cannot sort out brand new ipad. Somehow the language preference was German, managed to sort that out but the App store is still in German, does any one know how to reset to English?? Look forward to hearing from some one.
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iPod - hardly used - just over one year and hard drive is broke.
I having a frustrating experience. I bought and iPod in Jan 2011 did not really get round to using it till the back end of the year and a month after the warranty the hard drive packed in. This is despite it not leaving my property and only being used in a docking station. Amazon who I bought it from point to the year…
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re-babylon toolbar
Hi Guys, I have inadvertantly put babylon toolbar on my pc whilst trying to get updates of openoffice.org. As I couldn,t update the existing one, secunia psi said it was needing updating,I took it off and put new beta version on,that gave me the update, 100%,BUT, it also, gave me babylon toolbar for some reason. Spybot,…
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Pages in History not been visited??
I have noticed in my history that websites keep appearing which I have not visited they can vary from factmonster.com to oneindia.com. I have cleared my history for today and just gone back in and at the top its has open.fastlah.com at the top if I try and open the web page it tells me it cannot find it and if I click…
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Where have ALL my freeview digital channels vanished to?
Hi and thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I have a Toshiba TV with built-in Freeview. However, it has just converted itself to only accessing BBC 1 & 2, ITV, Ch 4 & Ch 5. No digital Freeview at all! I have always been able to access Freeview on it no problems at all, so am confused.... I have tried a full…
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IT Phone Scammer rings an IT department by accident!
We made a film about this yesterday. Basically we had an indian gentleman ring up our department, saying that one of the machines was reporting errors. Unknown to him, he was ringing the IT department. We basically got recording, had a bit of fun acting like a thick user and then confessed we knew he was on a scam all…
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WDTV or Apple tv?
I want to add some Internet connectivity to the tv in the bedroom so I was considering getting a cheap box like a WDTV live or apple tv. My requirements are that it should be able to stream movies from my NAS drive and I should be able to watch iplayer, 4od etc etc. I also require wireless connectivity as running a cable…
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Best tablet or ipod (for me).
Hi again folks, Friend of mine recently got an Apple ipod Touch. I have only had desktop computer's and a small laptop previously so I had no idea what this new technology was about. Suffice to say that I am very impressed with it and am planning to get an ipod or tablet, myself. It is all very confusing (to me). I have…
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Laptop or netbook for student? Advice please.
My son is 13 (yr 9) and we have just discovered that he may have disgraphia - problems with writing - he is therefore allowed to use a computer in class and for exams. I am just trying to work out the best solution for him. So far I have come to these conclusions but any advice would be appreciated. Netbook: Positives:…
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cat ran acr0ss ceyb0ard, w0rds have changed
what can 1 d0 t0 change then bac2. Its ok it was the number lock
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Sky broadband router
A friend has a Sky TV package which includes free broadband. Unfortunately he has lost the router and sky want around £43 for a replacement. I am wondering if it would be possible to buy a used or new from a supplier on the internet. Not sure which make and model to look for. Just need a simple product that is not too…
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virgin inernet problem
I am losing my internet access and its driving me mad. I turn the router and modem off wait 20 seconds ,switch back on and get back online.If I then leave the pc for any length of time I can`t get back online .The pc is showing as connected but with local access only so i have switch back off again.Can anyone help or will…
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Laptop won't load past the start up screen
Hello all, I've had a few technical problems kindly sorted out on here before. Hopefully this is a simple one. Basically I was on youtube and my son pulled the power lead out causing it to turn the laptop off. I tried re starting it and then the lead came out again. Stupid I know. Since then anytime I switch it back on it…
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Setting up an online shop
My dad owns a jewellery shop and wants to start selling on-line. He has asked me for his help. I stumbled across these 2 websites: https://www.volusion.co.uk http://www.ekmpowershop.com I know the basics of HTML & CSS but I am trialing volusion at the moment and it's very easy. The most basic is £15/pm and then he just…
