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SSD advice on decent make
I would be grateful for any recommendations on what would be the best make for a 128GB SSD. Kingston, Corsair or Crucial. Or any others. :)
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Have I killed my laptop?
Stupidly earlier, I slammed my laptop shut as the wi-fi was not working in the house and I was frustrated. It started clicking, so I turned it back on and it says I don't have a hard drive and wont go to any other screen. Have a crocked it? :(
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Linux Ubuntu and Spectrum Emulator (FBZX etc.)
Hello everyone, I need a bit of advice on something Ubuntu related... I've decide to embrace my inner child and get a Speccy emulator installed on my Linux box :D . I can't seem to get any of them to work properly though...:mad:...I'm not sure if I'm missing something obvious, so need a bit of help ;) . I managed to get…
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Virus?
My PC keeps turning it's firewall off and when I try and load certain programs they just flash up and disappear - including avast antivirus. I'm going to have to uninstall avast and re-install to be able to run a virus check but what can I do about firewall turning on and off? Not downloaded anything new. Also - Task…
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Has my PC been hacked?
Had a phone call recently on my home phone and saying that out pc has been sending malicious files to microsoft blah blah and they hung up when we pressed them for their company name and phone number. I posted about this on another thread a few minutes ago. then I had a call on my personal mobile from a number that said…
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XBox 360 "open tray" issue/not reading discs
Hi all, I'm feeling a bit sheepish after buying a 60GB XBox 360 at a car boot for £45 and having been assured by the seller it didn't have red ring of death found the CD drive was broke...(didn't think about that!). It came with Gears of War 1 & 2, wireless controller, all cables inc HDMI and works fine otherwise including…
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Computer is apparently sending files to microsoft
Just had an 'international' phone call to tell me that my computer is sending malicious files to microsoft. And that within the next 2 days my computer will stop working. They repeatedly told me that they could show me proof of this by sending something to my computer if I was sitting in front of it. Also going on about…
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Skype mic problem
Hi, Can anyone suggest what i could try to get my inbuilt microphone to start working again please. It was working fine one minute but now the other person cant hear me talking when im on Skype. I ve looked at audio settings and the mic part doesn t seem to move.Thanks
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Lost Windows Media Player
Shortly after I bought my Dell laptop last year I somehow "lost" Media Player. I'm not sure what happened. Now I would like to get it back. Is it still likely to be there somewhere waiting to be activated or do I need to install it again? I've got the disk for Windows 7 Home Premium but I don't want to reinstall everything…
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sky box
do anybody turn off sky box when it is not been used. ie at night
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Windows keeps losing Canon driver: why?
Virus free, malware free desktop PC running Vista OS has been happily teamed with Canon MP600 printer for three years. But every time the printer is switched on nowadays, Windows announces that it has to go look for the printer driver. I let it do so, it finds it, and that's it, away we go. When I've finished, I turn off…
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Netflix and broadband limit
I am on the basic monthly payment thing with Plusnet and can get upto 10GB per month and after that I have to pay more - currently averaging 7GM per month. OH wants to try Netflix on the free month's trial. Given that this will be a novelty and that he likes films :D - have you any idea how much this will add onto my 10GB…
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can't set up wireless router (VM broadband customer)
Hiya :-) Just got a TP-LINK WR1043NB wireless n gigabit router, but can't set it up. Am VM broadband only customer. When follow router's setup program, it verifies network adapter is enabled, but says network status check failed. Trying to follow the booklet's instructions, I went to the online address to try to manually…
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Help !! Excel for Idiots..................
Hi. I've got a job interview next week and I [STRIKE]lied[/STRIKE] sort of glossed over my lack of knowlede in regard to spread sheets & basically I know nowt about them and now need to learn the basics very quickly. I do know that there is going to be a test at the interview and I know that I can for fill the rest of the…
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Any free unicycle related ebook's?
As the title says. Anyone know of any free unicycle related ebooks. Need something to read at work. Cheers, Mark
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Help re putting pictures onto DVD please!
Hi Please can someone recommend a free, or cheap, program to put all my pictures (jpg) and videos (avi) onto DVD for safekeeping? Thanks! :D
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ASUS laptop battery
My friend is after an ASUS laptop battery no A32-F52. Have checked on Ebay, Amazon & others. The price range is £20 to £50 plus. Confused? Can any forum reader please advise where and what to look for as we have never ordered from ebay yet. Will pay via Paypal in case anything goes wrong.
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Humax going into standby ?
I have a Humax hdr-fox t2 and even though the settings are set to off for energy saving and auto power down it still seems to be putting it's self into standby anyway? The screen is blank and I have to press the on/off button on the remote to put it back on. Any idea why it would do this and how to stop it? Thanks
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Internet Explorer hijacked, history shows sites not visited
Hi, I would be very grateful if someone a bit more knowledgeable than me were able to assist, please! For the last 2-3 weeks I have noticed that Internet Explorer has been behaving strangely. The browser sometimes seems to be using a huge amount of memory, and on checking Processes in Windows Task Manager, there are…
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Mobile Network Storage to work with iPad
Hello! Have been looking at joining the iPad revolution and was originally looking at new iPad 32Gb wifi and tethering it to my mobile. All well and good, until i wasnt able to get it anywhere! As my main concern is storage size (16GB being not enough, and no room for expansion), i was told about Seagates Satellite Go Flex…
