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Crucial scan...not running?
Evening all Mr B has got hold of a second-hand laptop, HP NC8000 and he wants to up the RAM. He has tried running a Crucial scan to find out what he needs but the scan won't run. He has previously run the software on this machine but today it is just not happening. Any ideas why? He has uninstalled and reinstalled Crucial,…
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SSD Fight!
OCZ slaps Sandisk with great anger and furious vengeance - KitGuru
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PC can't see CD drive
I've a PC that has decided to no longer recognise the internal CD drive. I've swapped the CD drive and its' cable with another PC, and it works fine, and the CD drive and cable which works in the other PC won't work in this PC. So it seems to be a problem within the PC rather than with the cable/drive. This has been the…
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LCD TV screen flashing blue/green/red
Hi. My son has a ONN HD TV (originally purchased from Tesco a couple of years ago) and when he switched it on today the screen flashes totally blue then totally green then red. Whatever he does with the remote control wont make any difference. There is no sound at all. Does this mean the TV is completely Kaput??!! He's not…
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Annoying gumtree associated 2 different email address
I have used gumtree with 2 different account and so 2 different email address. It annoying that it associate 2 email address i.e. if I post an ad with email1 it responds back to email2. I have tried to log in and disassociate the 2 email address but it just doesn't give such an option and this is very annoying.
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Burning CD's
Hi folks, need some help, need some CD's made up with my own playlist. I only have a netbook and no disc drive, need this for the weekend so is there such a company that offers this a service, give them a playlist, pay, then your cd comes in the post?? Thanks in advance, Shona.
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Can't find main BT phone socket
Hi, We have recently moved house, and the new house is quite old (1890's). The internet in the new house is very slow (about 2mb down), and I can only put this down to the fact that I cant locate my master phone socket. We are with Orange, and they have said I should be getting around 17mb. The layout of the phone wiring…
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Google chrome
If i install chrome can i safely uninstall IE?
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Intel rapid storage technology is trying to connect to the service
Hi Guys Just noticed this in my notifications box on my computer "intel rapid storage technology is trying to connect to the service" can anyone tell me how to fix this please as I have no idea whats going on? Have done a search and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks in advance Niki
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Microsoft Telephone Activation?
Why does Microsoft Telephone Activation allow me to activate a piece of software (MS Office XP Pro) when Online Activation denies it (saying that it has already been activated on another PC)? For the record (if Bill Gates is reading this), the program had already been activated on another PC, but had then been uninstalled…
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printer for new computer what to buy?
I have just purchased a new computer and im now looking for a printer to go with it,maybe one of those priter,scanner type ones,nothing too expensive but one thats good,has good reviews and works well and also wireless,Also one that does not cost a bomb to buy ink for any ideas guys was going to get some sort of epson but…
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Getting rid of computer,wipe hard drive,help
Just got myself a new computer,looking to get rid of my old one lets just say i have had it a good few years,one of them huge monitor ones,not even sure if worth anything these days,i think it has its problems,maybe just upgrade issue im not sure,but before i get rid or if i dump it,how do you get rid of the stuff on the…
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Repair or replace Acer AL19 monitor?
Hello again techie people! I am looking for good advice on wether it is worth repairing my 3 year old Acer AL19 monitor? It wasn't particularly expensive but I would rather avoid a big outlay for a new model, saying that I don't want to throw good money after bad either! I have rarely had any problems with this monitor,…
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Mega-slow laptop internet: any ideas why?
Hi all and thanks in advance for any help. My laptop has become incredibly slow with the Internet - like really "sticky" - I use Firefox and if I type things on a webpage nothing happens for ages then all the words appear in one go, it takes ages to close down pages, everything is running incredibly slowly and useless -…
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Connecting to wireless through thick walls
I want to connect the computer in our office to our wifi, and although it is only probably 10meters away there are 2 very thick stone walls in between, so guessing this is why a usb adapter wont connect. Is there anything I can do to connect without running cables? Or any better USB adapters I can use? The adapter I tried…
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iPad wifi slow after recent software update
Hi, my OH' s iPad 2 has suddenly started to go slow when online with our wifi at home. It's a wifi only iPad btw. It was fine before the latest software update. A quick google search revealed that there are others out there with the same problem. Sadly I have yet to find a solution. Just wondered if anyone had any ideas.…
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iPad files deleted - any way of recovery?
Hi All, I accidently deleted some camera footage (videos files) taken by the ipad 3 recently in order to make space for an update. Although I appreciate some of the video files would of been overwritten by the software update I did actually delete more space than required for the update. So my question is this; Assuming…
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Phones failing to pick up my wifi
About a month ago, I changed my router and password (via talktalk). For me, everything is fine, however both my daughter and son-in-law now say they are unable to connect to my wifi when they visit, despite them using the new password. They have to use their contract allowance, which is no problem, but it bugs as as to why…
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iPad Battery options
I've now had my first geenration iPad for a couple of years and been very pleased with it. Unfortunately the battery life isn't what it was. In general I used to go a couple of days without a charge, now I'm struggling to see a day out based on consistant usage. I've looked up battery replacement options and Apple charge…
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How to give a TV slide show from camera images
I am giving a talk soon and need to use photographs currently stored on my MacBook Pro iPhoto file. Ideally I would like to use the images and view them on my TV. I bought a lead to the TV (Sony) but am having trouble being able to get pictures on the TV this way even though I managed to get Netflix pictures without…
