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Losing wifi signal on lava tablet
The OH has a Lava tablet, it's driving him mad as everytime he goes online it drops signal and goes back to the start, I have a laptop and mobile phone (blackberry) which connects to wifi with no probs. Is there anything we can get to boost the signal on the tablet? We are on talktalk with a d link router. Thanks for any…
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Strange systray Icons Prob
Greetings one and All I have a PC running windows 7 and up until recently everything was running sweet but now i have a bit of a strange prob. When i right click/double click on some icons that have been minimized to the systray nothing happens this is a new phenomenon to me it happens on progs such as u torrent or Dragon…
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Headphone recommendations
my daughter has went through loads of cheap head phones for her blackberry and I want to buy her ones that last but are not too expensive. Can anyone recommend ?
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Laptop Recommendation?
I'm after a new laptop and am thinking of spending around £600 or less. It will be used primarily for database work (running SQL Server 2012) so performance and disk capacity are important. Not too fussed about games but would like a highish screen resolution so that I can get more windows in view. Never been a brand snob…
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Clearing out laptop
I have a rather old laptop that is on a go slow. I haven't used it for a while but a relative did borrow it to see if they wanted one. I'm trying to get the laptop to run a bit faster and have followed the sticky at the top up to a point - I don't know what things need to stay on the computer to make it keep working. I…
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Need to buy a tv - budget ~£250
Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place, but can anyone help me choose a new TV? My budget is around £250 pounds (possibly stretching to about £300 but ideally not). I have no idea what features I'm looking for etc. I want to use it for playing my playstation 3 and would like free view included if possible. I walked into a…
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Viruses or not?
I have always used AVG free alongside Malwarebytes and thought eveything was ok. I do scans regularly and it has picked up the odd thing and removed. I have just done a scan with a program called Anvi Smart Defender and it has picked up 3 issues: TROffend.kd PSW.onlinegames Worm/Palevo.acb Googling these they are pretty…
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Wii Skylanders - Where Best to Buy From?
Has anyone found a good place to buy Skylanders characters at a reasonable price, apart from Amazon?
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Samsung UE4000 tuning problem
Not sure if this is in the correct section but can anyone assist Our Samsung LED UE4000 Series tv has suddenly stopped receiving any signal and get a "weak or no signal" message The aerial connection is fine since hooked up another TV onto this and can get all channels including digital Also hooked up the Samsung to…
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Help with .jpg file needed please
Hi i have had a freind design a company logo for me, it is a simple logo mainly text and with a box border. I need to be able to add it to a document, alter its size, maybe rotate it, add text underneath it, make it smaller etc etc Can anybody tell me a program to do this with please? I tried it in paint but i cant see how…
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3D Printers - anyone got one?
I hear good things about them, but would consider it a curiosity to tinker with. So are there budget options out there worth trying? The cheapest one I've seen with good feedback from users is the MakerBot Thing-o-matic but they weigh-in at a quite hefty price!
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Mad Printing Problem :(
Guys, anyone help with this one, got me tearing my hair out.... printer connected to pc, 2 user accounts. On the main user acct, printing pictures from windows picture viewer has just stopped, just printing a black image. Other user account - fine, no probs. I spent hours on this call, and still couldn't figure it out. All…
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itunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration?
Evening, Anyone know what this error is "itunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration" seems to come up when i open itunes on my laptop running vista. Thanks
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Windows Server 2008 Internet Sharing
My setup is as follows - Internet Router <---> Server Nic1 <->(Server 2k8)<-> Server Nic2 <----> Switch <----> Clients Internet Router Ip = 192.168.1.1 Server NIC1 = Obtain IP Automaticlaly Server NIC 2 = 192.168.0.1, subnet = 255.255.255.0, Gateway= 192.168.1.1, DNS = 192.168.0.1 Client = Obtain IP automatically I am able…
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video
Hi, I have a Pentax I-10 digi camera, takes great pics and vids, but when i take sd card from camera and put into laptop the vid runs but staggers (not smooth) Lappie is Advent 6311, Any ideas? Smudger
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60% off Norton Antivirus/Internet Security
Was searching the web for vouchers and came across this one for 60% off Norton Antivirus, though it also works with Internet Security. I've just bought Norton Antivirus 12.0 for Mac Upgrade for only £10. :D Promo code: Norton60VK Enter the code at the checkout to get 60% off your purchase. Expires Sat 30th June 2012. Tip:…
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Help- pc died
One of my sons has all his children's pics in his computer. Today it "made a funny noise and the screen went weird, all covered in lines"- and now it's dead. He is wondering if he has lost all his pics? Says he has some in his ipod but doesn't know how to get them out into another computer. Is this making sense to anybody…
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DVD burner problems
Evening all. Our DVD burner seems to have a problem. We tried burning some video files to a disc, using DVDFlick software (as we have numerous times) and it keeps coming up with an error, something about the "program memory update error" and that the file is too big. We're trying to burn around 3 hours of video, 12 files…
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iTunes not downloading full song
Hi there I bought a few albums from iTunes. About a minute or two into a few songs it just skips straight onto the next track, is there anything that could cause this? Much thanks
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Recommended graphics card for Ubuntu 12.04?
Hi I just upgraded (clean install) to Ubuntu 12.04 and the UI seems a bit laggy. Resizing and dragging windows, switching workspaces, etc just isn't as sharp as 11.10 was. I think this is probably because I'm using an onboard ATI display adapter; lowish spec and ATI driver support for Linux isn't great. Unity would only…
