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Faded laptop touchpad
Can a faded laptop touchpad be replaced? Just looks out of place on what is otherwise an immaculate laptop If so,degree of difficulty/DIY job etc? Cheers F
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Cloudflare
Hey guys. Has anyone had any experience with cloudflare, be it good or bad? I'm starting up a game server hosting company, and wondering if it's worth getting it (free version at the moment)? It looks pretty nice, and I'm really considering it. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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Keep getting Blue Screen
Says something abt checking the hard drive...... Started a while back doing it more often now, yesterday and today............ Can someone advise me what to do please.
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Logiq/Clevo M76T Vista Recovery Disk Image ???
Guys, can anyone help with this?? Usual issue of lost recovery disk, borked hdd, and worn-off product key on sticker :( I wish people would look after them better.... But anyhoo, I need to re-install, can anyone help with an ISO for this please ???
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Which external DVD-RW?
Hi I have a Dell Inspiron 1764 laptop, it’s quite a few years old and is certainly out of warranty. It has 4 GB Ram Anyway the dvd-rw drive recently went belly up and it has been suggested that I get a external drive to replace the broken one. I’m not tech minded and don’t fancy fiddling around with the guts of the…
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iPad
my lap top is dated and i'm getting a bit fed up of it. Was thinking of treating myself to a iPad, i've seen them but know little about them, and tbh i don't want to spend much. I've seen this http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/apple-refurbished-ipad-2-with-wifi-16gb-10801187-pdt.html and wondered if it was a good deal, i only…
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Solar/wind-up phone chargers.
Hello. My brother and i go fishing for the day and during the summer we sometimes go overnight and for 2 nights/weekend. We used to have normal mobiles that would last 4/5 days on a full charge but in the last 3 months both have got smartphones. A samsung galaxy y and htc wildfire. The last time we went overnight the…
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Urgent Help- How to record a bbc live stream (torch cam)
A good friend is running with the olympic torch today and I just wondered if there is any way i can record the live streaming of the torch cam. It is not available on the red button due to wimbledon (as was gonna record onto my dvd/hd recorder linked to tv) Im not very techy so if you can help can you put it in basic steps…
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Toshiba laptop screen permanent mark
As of tonight I've had a permanent mark at the bottom of the screen the shape of a plaster , is no colour just blends with the colour of whatever is on screen but you can see the shape I did spill my drink earlier and some went onto the underneath of the laptop but wasn't much, I wiped it off immediately and everything…
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Natwest crash - what happened
Apparently a junior technician in India caused the RBS meltdown The bloke was carrying out an upgrade to the CA-7 software the bank used to run the transaction processing. As he checked the update, he accidentally cleared the entire job queue, ie he erased all the scheduling. The deleted rescheduling data had to be…
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I hate Facebook
Sorry if this is the wrong area. I am totally against Facebook and everything it stands for. But...... I reluctantly signed up some time ago to view photos posted by my daughter. It unfortunately succeeded in working. Since then I have tried again and through probably miskeying my login details it has now disabled my…
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Save As on Right click not available for saving images in Windows 7?
I have quite a lot of photos on my hard disk (taken by me) and I need to copy some into a separate folder for my partner who is working on designing a document for me which contains them. I used to do this by right clicking on the image. This generated a save as option and I just inserted the name of the folder I wanted it…
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My HijackThis log
Hi guys, just got a new Lenovo laptop and like any new machine it's loaded with rubbish! I'm slowly working my way through it removing the stuff I can, but can anyone take a look at my HijackThis log and give me any tips: R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page =…
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Picasa
My photos used to be separated by Year - under the folder heading it would show 2011etc followed by a feint grey double line. There is a separator for every year since i installed Picasa - except 2012. I had assumed this was when i started taking more photos with my phone and less with my camera ( which needed anew…
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Forgotten password
Hi. I've gotten a netbook of someone and it's passworded, but the password is unknown:mad:. Is there anything I can do?
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Cannot switch LAN to on position
Hello techies, My Lan has switched it self off! It will not go to the ON position, I have followed all the trouble shooting suggestion and still no luck. Can anyone please help? Carmen x
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Google Search
I have a new laptop running Windows 7. When i am on a webpage and highlight a section of text i then have an option to search with google - however when the seach page appears the text is not pre printed as in vista instead all I see is a blanc box to complete. How do I solve this?
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Companies for cheap laptops?
Which site/store is the cheapest for Laptops? I would want an Acer, are they the dearest?
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PayPal and Ebay woes
Hello all, Yesterday i purchased an IPhone from ebay for £320 quid. Instead of getting the nice blue pound sign in my purchased summery i instead got the picture of an hourglass (or eggtimer). The seller has been really good and contacted me about it a few times, but he told me that PayPal has informed him that my account…
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Printer help, pulled all paper through!!
Hi, I'm scanning a letter for my Dad and went to print the first page out and the printer has pulled all the paper through at once :mad: I reckon theres about 15 sheets (ish) but now they are half in, half out the printer and well and truly stuck :o I did try to gently pull them back but they wont budge. When I went to…