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re-windows back up
Hi Guys. Just done a windowsback up, never used it before, assumed it would let me save to CD.but it has saved it to D drive? and it,s scheduled itself to repeat on a weekly basis. I have always backed to CD/DVD, but cannot remember what I used, freeware, What,s the difference of D drive, and is there a free back up to CD…
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getting maps onto android phone eg gpx
hi all i am planning to ride my bike from london to paris and have found gpx and other formats of file with the route. i have a htc wildfire phone and it has a maps app which i think is basically google maps for the android. what i want to do is download this route onto my phone so i can refer to it when i am riding and…
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cq71 screen issue
Hi night owl experts! I have a presario cq71 win 7/64. Today the screen has gone awary. Basically the black background shows as red, white as pale blue, the same in boot startup, in DOS, etc. Generally colours on screen are very washed out. No issues with external display. Updated Intel Series 4 drivers. Tried changing…
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still cant go wireless i used to though
hi my computor has always let me go wireless without any problems, just the other night it stopped, i am on the earthnet cable at the moment and not sure what to do i have no switch so can do that it says something about realtrek and it is disconnected ,, but how i never did nothing anyone know what to do,,, however…
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Firefox in windows7?
Hi just got my new desktop and am wondering if you can use firefox in windows 7 my pc is a 64bit, IE9 is driving me mad as ive used firefox for years and am used to it. Thanks
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Help Please with Headed Paper!!
Hello - I am hoping that you lovely people can give me a bit of a guiding hand. I am self employed and would now like to send out invoices/receipts via e-mail rather than through the post (now that the postage will be going up). I have scanned my headed paper onto my pc, but I don't know now how to put the word document…
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Some .rtf files have changed to files with no extension
Hi Techies I'm a bit perplexed!!!! I use Word Pad, which gives the .rtf file extension, a lot. Today when I was placing my latest Word Pad document in it's relevant My Documents folder, I noticed that some older .rtf files there were no longer showing their usual icons, and when I tried opening one, was asked what I wanted…
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DVD Recorder
I have a Panasonic DVD recorder with hard drive. Today it won't play discs, makes a funny noise when I put one in and then the display reads "no read". The problem I have is that the hard drive is working fine, but need to play discs. If i buy another Panasonic DVD player, can I still play the discs I have recorded on the…
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BSODs on new medion i5 desktop
Help! Bought a new Medion Akoya P5324E (i5 64 bit) desktop at the end of Feb 2012 on line. Have been getting repeated BSODs since installation, usually when on line but thrre seems to be no pattern. It once went to a BSOD 10 seconds after booting up before a command was given. When I restart it works fine until the next…
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PC problem - error 0xc00000e9 -"Hard disk failed"
Just wondering if anyone can help me out with this, have asked elsewhere but nothing suggested seems to work. I've been having problems with my netbook in that it just won't start up. I've tried booting to the last good configuration but nothing loads and it ends up back to an error screen which says "error 0xc00000e9". I…
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ipod- lost
:mad::mad: Last weekend my daughter mis laid within the distance of 10 yards. Can someone help me with the following: Is there anyway of finding out how we could trace it. my daughter stated it was turned off. It also had a security password on it. If somebody had picked it up ( so annoying ) could they get into it. We…
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New lens not seen by Sony DSLR-A230
I bought a telephoto lens from Amazon which came with an adapator to enable Alpha fitting. The new lens is a Walimex 500mm f/8.0 Lens for Minolta AF/Sony. It fits nicely, however when I try to take a picture an error flashes on-screen saying no lens attached. I emailed Amazon and was impressed with their reply and rapid…
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MS Office 2007 product key - best value?
Hi all. Some rather clueless questions coming up! I bought a new laptop about 18 months ago which came with a trial of MS Office Home and Student 2007. I used Word as many times as I could without entering a product key, and since then I've been using Open Office. However, I really need to be able to use Track Changes so I…
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anyone know what this means
every time l go to do a superantispyware scan this comes up the instruction at 0x5e5363 referenced memory at 0x00000007 the memory could not be written click on ok to terminate the program and it won't let me do a scan, any ideas?
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electrical voltage regulator energy saving thingamabob
Hi I was listening to radio 4 yesterday and on one of the shows they were talking about a voltage regulator that regulates a steady flow of energy in to the home. Aparently this saves money as it avoids too much energy being received ie. instead of anywhere between 210-250v it is regulated at 220v or whatever the standard…
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Connecting a Blackberry to a new BtHub
I am trying to follow these instructions from the Bt webpage but when I get to step 7 it looks different. My BB says: Provisioning Wi-Fi Profiles...Enter this PIN into your wireless router: xxxxxxxxxx. But I cannot work it out. Help please!!!!!
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Blogging- With or without advert?
Hi Folks, Need to form a blog for information and interaction purpose of a group of about 100. There are few issues i need to clarify. 1) I am not after advert but if it can be arranged neatly as a banner. Why NOT? Anyone has an idea on this? 2) I have a domain registered with one.com I have contacted them about launching…
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HTML emails
Does anyone know how you write html emails? You know, the sorts of thing that blogs send out and other companies, that look like a webpage but in an email? I would like to do this now I'm getting more subscribers on my blog but I'm just a hobbyist so I don't want to spend a fortune on expensive software!
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Laptop battery dies, need help
Afternoon all. For a while my battery was showing up that it needed replacing. I didn't want to buy a cheap battery and just never got round to finding out where to get a legit on, lazy i know. So I just kept it plugged in when using it and took the charger out when not. Today the laptop turned off and the charging lights…
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Hijackthis Log
Hi, my computer has got in to a pickle again, so please have a look at my log and let me know what I need to do. Many thanks in advance Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 12:29:56, on 03/04/2012 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal…
