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Lost Laptop
I left my laptop on a train yesterday (my two month old laptop :( ) It was password protected, but was wondering how easy that is to bypass? There is nothing dodgy on it but all my passwords for various things are saved trying to rack my brains to think whats on there. But I guess my question is the admininstration…
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Photocopy ink cost, advice welcome
Hi, I have an Epsom Stylus. I have just bought it. I really resent the cost of the ink, its such a rip off.:eek: I bought some colour ink cartridges from Asda. All worked well for a few days and then up came the error, 'cannot be recognised' message. I tried all the usual things, including cleaning the little gold bit,…
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How to wipe clean my external harddrive?
Took the harddrive out of my dead laptop and put it in an enclosure. Connected it to my new laptop and copied any important files etc. Originally the harddrive had two partitions: a recovery and C drive. The C drive was further split into two drives. The harddrive now has 3 partitions. What i want to do now is to remove…
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Total Novice Camera Advice
Hello, I'm looking for a new digital camera and would greatly appreciate some recommendations. I don't particularly want to spend over £200. I am a complete novice - all the knowledge I've gained has been through compulsive researching over the past couple of days! However, I think I would like a camera that would give me…
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Duplicating a leaflet ... help please
HI I want to make about 40 duplicate copies of a double sided leaflet. The leaflet is black ink only. I would like thickish, good quality paper about 120 - 150 Now, this is the question.... Is it better to photocopy the leaflet or Have it printed? Would the print quality be very different? What is the thickest paper I can…
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Kindle web browsing over 3g
Was thinking of getting a kindle, was intrigued however by the 3g option. From what I read the Keyboard does web browsing over 3g, but the Touch does not. Any comments on this, thought it would be a good option for checking email, etc. when abroad?
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Kiss of life for a dead laptop?
I have a 4 year old sony vaio VGN BX51VN which has just completely died. I was mid email, and it made a clicking noise (bit like when a fuse goes) and the screen went black. No power light, no wifi light, nothing. Completely kaput, nothing happens when I press the on/off button. The power lead appears ok and still has the…
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HTML5 fears
Just been reading an article about how infected sites using HTML5 will be able to attack the PC as soon as you visit the site. Should we be overly worried about this, i went to a site discussing this but all a bit to technical for me. Site link html5security.org.
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Which Cable do I Order?
Hi, My son wants to connect his latptop to the TV so the TV screen displays whatever would normally be on his laptop screen. He has a Dell XPS 1330 - can you tell me the name of the cable to buy? Many thanks Terrysdelight
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Baffled by disc full message from external hard drive
I have come across an odd problem with a verbatim external hard drive connected to my WinXP PC via usb. I am moving some files over to the drive from my computer and have unexpectadly got a 'disc full' error message. The reason it is unexpected is that when I check the drive by right clicking on it it, it lists the…
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Redirected to other sites?
Hi guys I was hoping for some advice. Every time Im on my laptop lately and using the internet - when I type in specific sites im constantly getting redirected to other sites. This is quite annoying at times. I gave my laptop to a friend to check for infections and he says he removed them but it is still happening. The…
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Router Netgear question
I have a router netgear DG834Gv2. Recently I thought it would be good to get a spare as a back up. Its always good to have a spare I think. If I do this and I had to put in a new one, install it I mean, would I have to go into the netgear settings and change everything on there if it was a different router? If same router…
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would a sky digibox work without an access / topup card?
(hopefully like a freeview box..) found one being thrown out- Grundig Sky digbox, model GDS300.. I have normal tv (no sky/cable), and dont want to go wasting money getting remote leads etc if its not gonna work!
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Links in posts
Is it just me or are others getting one word hyperlinks to a competition to win a phone? and just viewing this post w i n is now a hyperlink
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Any 500px users here? Linking with Facebook question
I want to sign up with 500px and I want to be able to be able to post my 500px on my Facebook account. However looking at the 500px site, I get the option to log in with my Facebook account (which I don't want to do). Does anyone know if I sign up the old fashioned way (email address and password), it will still let me…
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How to check internet headers in emails
On previous version of Outlook 2003 I could right click on incoming email(without opening it) from a source I was not sure of and under "options" could reveal the source of that mail. This was very useful feature when concerned about validity of sender. Just upgraded to Outlook 2010 and cannot for the life of me find a way…
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cheapish laptop advice
Hi guys any ideas on good deals on new laptops around, looking at around £300 for a new one or £150 ish on 2nd hand/refurbed is ebuyer still the best site for this stuff? should I still avoid celeron processors, there is that many new ones used to me just pentium and amd ?? thanks
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Daughters sick laptop - no bootable device!
Hi all, My daughters laptop is not working and just after some quick advice as to whether it's an easy fix or whether I'll have to bite the bullet and pay a professional to fix it for me. When I boot the laptop up (bTW it's an Acer Aspire 5551 bought less than 18 months ago) the first screen that appears is:- Black screen…
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Photo for desktop
I received this cute photo by email and when I use it for my desktop it becomes blurred, the definition is not as good. I would like to have the photo the same size as it is when viewed from the email. A border around the photo, say yellow , where I can then have my shortcuts/links showing clearly around the photo with the…
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HD video & photo storage websites
Hi, Besides facebook and youtube, are there any other free websites where I can upload about 8gb of HD videos and photos, and have the ability to share with only family and friends (e.g. using passwords or private links). I want to upload the videos directly as 1080p .mts files (it's fine if the site downscales them to…
