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Wireless versus cable internet.
My supplier is sending me a free wireless hub thing as they say they are upgrading and given me an extra 30 something, think it was MB but could have got that wrong. Anyway, I've been quite happy with the cable connection I've got and I'm a bit nervous of this wireless thing. Can anyone tell me if they are as secure? I do…
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Printer not printing correctly
Have an Epson Stylus SX215 printer. It has been months since it was last used mainly due to the blank ink running out. Got a new set of Epson ink cartridges from Staples and fitted them into the printer. When printing the colours come out fine. It is the blank ink that is not printing correctly. It misses some lines/texts…
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Matching the right hosting with vBulletin
Hey all, I'm currently in the process of trying to get a forum off the ground for the company I work for; and have settled on vBulletin, who's minimum specs are:- PHP version 5.2.0 or greater MySQL version 4.1.0 or greater A pre-registered domain name 200 Megabytes of hard drive space I'm not too savy with servers (more of…
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DVD writer drivers?
My PC, running XP, won't let me upgrade to SP3, and without being able to do that I can't update drivers for my DVD writer drive. I'm trying to use hubby's machine which itself generally runs better, and is already on SP3. But it has a out of date DVD RW drive, Ricoh DVD +RW MP5125A. I can't seem to get any DVDs to be…
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Kindle/Ipad question
I'm not very technical, so I don't know if this is possible. I have a Kindle and receive a daily email from the Kindle User's Forum. Today there are a number of free Kindle books for children - a series featuring animals. Obviously the pictures won't show up very well on a Kindle, so I wondered if there is any way to…
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3 state I've used over 2GB in 48 hours
This is about 10 times my normal usage. I didn't even have that much free space on the whole of my HDD! Within this there is over 100MB uploaded. How could I have uploaded that much when I don't use a webcam or upload videos?
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Internet Explorer 8 error messages
I don't know why, but over the past few weeks I've been getting more and more 'Internet Explorer cannot display the web page' error messages using IE8 (Win XP). This usually occurs when using a link from a website that takes you through to another part of the same website or linking to another website, e.g. linking from…
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Cartridges for a Lexmark Plus 2690
My father's friend has telephoned him to ask him to price cartridges for a Lexmark Plus 2690 but I cannot find this printer online never mind cartridges for it. Does a Lexmark Plus 2690 exist or is it a Lexmark X2690 which is the nearest thing I can find to it? If it is a Lexmark X2690, which uses 4, 4XL, 5 and 5XL…
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Spotify reliability
Hi Everyone I have to decide if the six month Premium Spotify trial I have generally much enjoyed, is worth paying ten quid a month for. To that end, can I ask how frequently other users have found that a song, or possibly the service itself has failed? I reckon maybe 10% in my experience. Thanks for any info.
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P.C. deceased?
I suspect my old Windows XP desktop machine has died, but would like confirmation that I'm probably correct. Recently, if it has been knocked, or the desk it's on has been knocked, with a knee, foot etc., it shut down then restart immediately. It even restarted the other day when I commenced a print job, lowering the paper…
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Deleting Hotmail Account
I've been trying to close down my hotmail account now for about a week and it always says "there's a temporary problem" and you can't do it!!
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Price of a 5 page website ?? What price ranges should I expect?(approximate £ranges )
Price of a 5 page website ?? What price ranges should I expect? What approximate price ranges would I be expected to pay, for a web designer to create me a basic 5 page website? basic pages, 2-3 pictures per page. I know this is a rough question, but i just am looking for vague prices thanks. If you are a webdeveloper-…
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Using Public Wifi - Home VPN?
I'm going on holiday on Friday to a quiet place but will need to do a few hours work while there (in the UK) via my laptop. My work is.. sensitive in nature and wouldn't want anyone knowing my log in details or seeing what I was doing while working. Could this happen? Could they see what I'm actually doing/get my log in…
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Piggy Back Spam ?
Thats what i have to call it ! Have noticed in my spam email box , which i check to make sure no legit emails have been sent to , several spam mails with my email address preceding the post , which i do not open , as an example my email address is joebloggs @ myemail .uk which is what people see when i email them , in my…
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New Nokia battery wanted?
Where can I get a BP-5M battery, that is new, genuine, not £30 and will not show somes signs of testing ( or do they mean well used). By the way the existing one is slowly bulging out it must be 2mm fatter than by design.
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Is Zamzar down
I wanted to convert a couple of old word files i have and tried Zamzar as i have used this occasionally but it seems to be down. Could someone give it a try for me thanks.
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New laptop/ultrabook advice please?
Hi, I've been operating on an ASUS 1005HA eeepc for a year now (didn't want to buy a new laptop before my year abroad and sold my desktop on to a family member rather than leave it mouldering for 9 months), but now I'm back and would like to get a laptop. (Sidenote: apart from anything else this netbook's now being really…
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Adobe Flash Player keeps freezing
I don't have a telly, so i watch a lot of programmes online. Demand5 has become very 'glitchy' and freezes every few seconds. It takes quite a few refreshes for the programme to come out okay. If the comments sections under the programme screen is anything to go by, it's a common problem. Now itv.com has gone the same way.…
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Ultrabook prices
Hi all, Im on the market for an Ultrabook for the other half. I have spotted the hp Folio 13 which gets great reviews for the price. However, I've seen in a number of places that it was on sale in early June for £630 from PCWorld / Dixons (Home Retail Group). However, I cant find it now for that price. Can anyone point me…
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best price PS3 + 2 controllers + 2 games best price?
My nephew wants a ps3 with 2 controlls and the following games in order of prefereance. Modern warfare 2 fifa 2012 gran turismo 5 There's a website that has a good deal for £270 for 2 of these games, and I'd need to buy modern warfare 2 second hand. The web address is…
