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Toshiba Laptop - blue screen
Appologies if this has been covered before. Over the past few days my Toshiba L300-19Y has been encountering problems. Initially this was just slow startup, but this soon worsened to windows (Vista) not loading. I have tried loading in safe mode, tried going back to last working point (it claimed not to have one) and have…
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Copy of windows 7 is not genuine
Hi, I have had my computer for a few years now; have had to reinstall windows 7 a few times as I like messing with software and eventually had to reinstall. I have two copies of windows 7 on my computer, one on C drive and one on D drive. Bought from a well known UK pc maker, came complete with windows 7 install disk and…
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Any free software for backing up Win 7?
Hi. After my system has been reformatted, I'm looking for free software to backup Win 7 onto disc. Can anyone recommend one? Thanks!
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Good tech podcasts to listen to ?
hi there , i currently listen to a quite few of the podcasts on twit.tv and the pc pro podcast , is there any other goods ?
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A Dongle for Occasional use?
Hi A few times a year, I do a bit of work away from home and I don't have internet access apart for my blackberry. I find surfing on my bb painfully slow and then of course it's a small screen. I was thinking of getting an IPAd until I discovered their prices and was 'shocked' :eek: ! I've got a small laptop I can use and…
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How many GBs
how many GBs on average would you use in a month, emailing, sometimes watch sky go on the laptop, don't download films general surfing that's all, would 10 cover it? Regards Stanehyve
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Canon EOS 500D accessories
My hubby has a Canon EOS500 D camera which he loves to bits. Last Christmas I bought him another lens (55-250?) for it which he was thrilled with. I'm wondering what else I could buy him to use with it. He likes taking landscape and wildlife shots mostly however I don't know much about what would be suitable. I did wonder…
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Router replacement/superfast broadband
We need to replace our 6 year old netgear router which is playing up. However we're due an upgrade to superfast broadband in our area next year. Will we need to change to something other than a router or upgrade to a different router to get superfast broadband? Are we as well to buy the cheapest thing to get us up and…
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Yahoo and TalkTalk E-mail; problems today ??
Anyone else ????
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Laptop (again!)
Hi, I bought a laptop from a supermarket online in January, and by April, it was acting very strangely - I had lots of trouble with the manufacture as well as the supermarket giving me false information (and admitting this) and it ended up with the motherboard and the the hard drive being replaced. Now about a month ago,…
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TSST corp CDDVDW TS-L633J windows 8 driver
Hi does anyone know where I can get a windows 8 64 bit driver for a Toshiba DVD model TSST corp CDDVDW TS-L633J, without having to download a lot of rubbish beforehand? I did try the Toshiba site but it says there is no driver.
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Printer broke
Think I have broke my printer,first time putting in new cartridges removed the yellow strip put cartridges in slot only didn't see the red lug I should have removed as well,printer says it does not recognise the black ink ,I removed them all again and was about to replace cartridges when I saw a gold piece of foil on…
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Laptop help please
Another laptop thread. It's difficult to find one as there are so many conflicting views but here's what I need: A laptop, screensize doesn't matter. I have a 15.6" one and if it's a little smaller I don't have a problem. Same if it is bigger. I don't use it for gaming or anything, but I do a lot of multi tasking. Should…
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Google Nexus 7
I've got the wifi Google Nexus 7. Is there any way i can use 3g , for example with a dongle?
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is this a virus? unwanted ad program?
My comp has recently started showing certain random words on all sorts of websites highlighted and underlined like links - when I hover my mouse over them a pop up appears for iphones. I have ran all my antivirus programs - avira, miscrosoft security essentials and malwarebites and its still happening - is this a virus, or…
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Upgrading to sky+ (I know im well behind!!!)
I want to upgrade to sky +, i know im well behind the times!!! We currently have a normal sky box and dish. For sky + do we need to have another lead run up to the dish (seem to think i read somewhere you do). Problem is the tv is in the middle of two two main rooms downstairs and the wire comes in from the external wall,…
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I can't moved xp files on external drive to new windows 7 computer
Hi, please can someone help. When I plug in my external drive and view on new windows 7 comp, I can only see my pictures, can't see .doc or .pst, etc or anything else. I need to copy these over, can someone advise......thanks
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Quick release monitor ideas?
I want to replace our laptop as it is 5 years old and starting to go wrong so I want to replace it with a desktop computer. Now as I have a laptop table I want to permanently attach the monitor to it and just connect it to the base as and when I need it without too much fiddling about and also use a wireless mouse and…
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Outlook Mailing List Woes...
At work we use outlook for emails and mailing lists. I spent several hours creating a new mailing list in a folder in the Outlook address book, printed it, saved and closed it, and when I opened it back up 2 days later to edit it several of the entries had vanished! I re-entered 3 of the missing names & email addresses,…
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Which laptop/software would you buy for animation films?
Hi Our son is 13 and likes to make lego animation films. He has acer intel laptop but complains it is too slow. So xmas around the corner - what would you recommend laptop animation software hope someone out there can help a non tech mum!