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Data Recovery Problems
Hello :) I am trying to recover some lost/corrupted/deleted files, photos and videos from my USB stick. I am trying all the freebies such as Recuva, Restoration, Easeus, Diskdigger. They all only found 6 photos all the same ones. Now I downloaded MagicCute and viola! it found all the files, all 109 of various photos and…
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Trying to return a faulty laptop...
Hi there, in May 2011 I purchased a HP Pavilion dv7 from Comet for £664.99. Around November it started to become unnaturally hot - to the point that you simply could not touch it. I had this sent off to HP where I had no laptop for 3 weeks. It was then fixed! In February the problem reared it's head again and was again…
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Kingston DataTraveler write protection
Hi all, I have a Kingston data Traveler 8GB USB flash drive and was just clearing some files and it says the disk is write protected. Can anyone help? I've looked for a lock/switch/slider but there is nothing there, is it a fault that can be fixed? It won't let me format the drive as I thought that would be the quick…
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Dell Printer Keeps Changing IP Address
I’d appreciate a word of advice. I have a Dell 1600n laser printer which I use occasionally. However, when I go to use it the IP address seems to keep changing e.g. a few weeks back it was 192.168.0.2 and it changed to 192.168.0.3 and this morning when I went to print out a letter it had changed again to 192.168.0.6. Don’t…
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permanently delete 'Windows Mail & Live Mail Email Message'
Although I delete my unwanted messages from the above they still seem to be on my PC when I do a search, these go back to 2008 and I have tried all ways to permanently delete them without any success. I have even sought the help of my broadband provider again no success. This is taking up quite a bit of space on my PC and…
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NSLOOKUP showing two IP's for url?
Hi all, I have added a new A record in DNS manager to update where our home intranet to point to a new IP. Only problem is that under NSLOOKUP my URL homenetwork.smith.mental shows 2 ip addresses. How do I remove the old one?
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Copying Sim for Dongle
Would it be possible to copy the sim that is in my dongle? I could then get another dongle and run 2 pc's off the one internet bill. Just wondering if this is possible, i'd imagine there would be problems trying to use both at the same time?
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Connecting to Wireless Broadband Help ***Additional Query #4***
Hi I've just changed ISP and connecting up my wireless broadband; everythings fine and I'm online but unsure how I connect to the wireless from my phone, the phone asks for a pre-shared key code. Can anyone help me re what I should enter. On a card that came with my router it had these details: Wireless Network Name…
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Google Drive
Got my 'drive' tonight , and I have come to the conclusion that it would be easier / safer to create a new gmail account and then request a new drive for that account . 'Drive' would then have a separate identity. I would then use my 1st account/drive to store personal files and my second account/drive to 'share' Does this…
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Demonoid - Lost username and password
How do I retrive both my username and password on the above site? When I click on 'lost pass' it asks me for me username and email address. I cant remember the username. I have emailed them twice now and had no response. Please Help
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Have updates for XP ceased?
Ok,I know I'm probably completely out of touch but seems like ages since I had any installable updates from Microsoft for XP (my PC's OS) My PC is set to downloads automatically etc.. Has support now stopped for this OS? Just curious................. F
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Kindle clip on light
Hi guysngals First of all I apologise if this is in the wrong place. My lovely wife would like a clip on light for her kindle. Does anyone have any recommendations?? Thanks in advance :beer::beer::beer:
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Cannot access my router's HTML interface
I was viewing the pages of my US Robotics 9108 router earlier today. I refreshed the ADSL stats page and it came back with a part formed page. That is, it didn't have the USR corporate red at the top, no logo, no navigation bar. In fact it returned part of the stats table, but in Times New Roman rather than Arial which it…
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Extending VM via "seeing eye"
Hi. My sister just had a tivo box fitted and her V+ box was going to go up into her (bedroom) loft conversion on her bungalow. However, the VM man who brought the tivo box said that he couldn't run the cable upstairs as it would need to go into the roof and that tiles would need to be taken off to access the cable to then…
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Tacolneston TV transmitter
Does anybody know when the Tacolneston TV transmitter will be fixed? I can not find any contact details for them and iy seems nobody cares. Ever since last Friday when we had a severe thunderstorm over and near our property the TV with the set top box has been playing silly beggers. At first nothing worked then I retuned…
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Low Disc Space On Laptop
Hi everyone I have started to get the "Low Disc Space" warning on my laptop. The details are as follows; Partition C: 621 MB free of 51.1 GB Partition D: 47.9 GB free of 50.8 GB How do I go about moving data from C to D? Is it just drag & drop? After I have done this & freed up space on C, how do I get programs etc to save…
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Microsoft Money replacement?
Hello! I've got years of stuff stored in Money 2005 but it's always had some irritating features that didn't work the way I might expect them to. Has anyone successfully moved from Money to an alternative and preserved their prior data? If so, what, and was it worth the move for you? Thanks :)
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Windows Live Essentials update - all contacts disappeared
I use Windows Live Mail and I was sending an email today and tried to go to my contacts, only to find that there were no contacts showing. Also, when I clicked on the contacts button at the bottom left of the screen, although "contacts" was listed, it wasn't registering the click (ie, it remained on the "mail" selection),…
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Cookies. It's so embarrassing
This has happened before but I can't remember what I did to put it right. I am no longer recognised by a few sites I use regularly. I don't think Microsoft give a clear explation how to put things right when they go wrong. I have been in Control Panel again and read what to do but then I need to find if a site is HTTP,…
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Read images2 - moneysavingexpert
Hello Can anyone help? Every day when I access this site for the first time, my screen freezes for about a minute and bottom left there is a note that says readimages2 moneysavingexpert. All my adobe/java etc are up to date and this site is the only site that this screen freeze happens. Can anyone explain what is the cause…
