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best netbook for £300 - £400
Hi, i have been looking around at netbooks, most i see seem to come with 1gb ram which i find a bit dissapointing, especially in the price range i am looking. i seen this SONY VAIO SVE1112M1EW 11.6" windows 8 Laptop for £399 which looked great apart from when i read reviews on it, the processor in it is on par with a…
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MSE clock time
Is it me/my computer or are the times on all the posts at the moment pre-clockback? I make it 6.58pm, is MSE wrong?
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windows live mail .eml files to mbox (mac mail)
Is there a free way to convert windows eml email files to apple mac mbox format in order to import them into mac mail? WilliamO
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Hard Drive not being read but picked up?
Hey all, was wondering if someone could please help me with an issue I'm having with a HDD. I have an external hard drive, it's a 2.5" SATA 40GB and I've bought a few enclosures for it since I kept thinking they were all broken. When being connected to a Laptop or PC, the HDD is picked up by windows and shows up on the…
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how do i get out of sleep mode
my sons computer as gone in to sleep mode, how does he start it up again. He' s tried powering it back up and putting it into safe mode but nothing comes on to the screen. He as also tried plugging is monitor into another computer it works ok, the processor is making the right noises but all he as got is a black screen.
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bbc iplayer downloads
I read somewhere a while ago that you could now download programmes on the iplayer app. I've got it on my phone but i cant see any download option. anybody know?
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Should I upgrade to IE9?
When I log in to my email account on Virgin I get a message saying I'm using a version of IE that will soon become unsupported. It gives the option and a link to upgrade but when I used the link today it took me to Windown website which said I was using the latest version of IE for Windows XP. So, should I upgrade to IE9…
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Identifying OS from an unlabelled product key
Hey, Quick one - I have aquired a laptop that has a valid COA on the bottom. However, the writing for which OS it is for, has rubbed off. The actual 25 character key is still fine though. Is there an easy way to ID what OS this product key is for? Without installing xp/vista/7/home/business/pro/ultimate and testing each…
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Cheap blu-ray playback software
I've had a look around but there doesn't seem to be much in the choice of blu-ray software and certainly not cheap so I'm wondering if I'm missing any suitable options. Windvd Pro seems to get a lot of praise but £43 is a lot of money given some entire players are less than that and ideally I'd like the software for three…
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HMV iSwap; is it 4th or 5th gen?
Hi, Has anyone done the iSwap with hmv? The itouch you can get, is it 4th or 5th gen, and can you get bigger than 8GB? The only thing I can read is that the advertised price of £99, is based on trading in an itouch, and buying a 16GB 4th gen itouch. Says nothing more about whether it's limited to old 4th gen stock, or all…
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panasonic veira
Got a Panasonic with BBC i-player built in, The i-player works after the TV was bought ITV player channel was introduced, but the TV says not set up for this channel, it doesn't have the right software? Can the ITV software be flash uploaded to the TV? thanks
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New Laptop - What to install? help please
Bear with me as it might seem obvious to some of you but just want to check and advice. Just bought a SAMSUNG NP350V5c ...and all seems good. It has the Microsoft 2012 starter pack and Norton security trial month. So could you please advise on what I should download before using it: I have AVIVA antivirus and COMODO…
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Google nexus 7
i am going to get one for my son for xmas...pc world are selling them for £169.00 for the 16gb model....i know a 32gb model will be on sale before xmas but would it make much differance as all my 9 year old will want to do is play games and go on you tube....should we buy now or wait ?
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Showing off my photo's
I would like to do a slideshow type of thing to show my photo's to a group of friends.. I cant find powerpoint on my laptop. It has MS Office, but when I tried to put the Product Key in from under the machine it says its invalid. Any idea's please :D
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MS Security Essentials
Am currently using MS Security on my lap top but still seem to have picked up a few Trojans and viruses,i ran a full scan and that seemed to detect and clean them up but i see today a trojan still remaining so will do another full scan. Would I be better installing the free version of AVG for my security and if so would i…
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Having trouble triple booting WinXP & Win7. Please help.
"but you only listed 2 OS" you say. I know :) I know this can be done as i've ran it for years. In the past 3 years i've had to format 2-3 times & each time i've had problems doing this, but managed to stumble through. I can't seem to do it any more. Basically, i want 1x WinXP installed & 2x Win7 installed (please let's…
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Will I Need Security On iPad Mini?
Hello, I am hoping to get if I can get my hands on one a iPad Mini. I have never had anything made by Apple before. Do I need security on there?. And if I do what free security can I use? Thank You LuckyOne xxx
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Very slow broadband
Can anyone help me brainstorm some ideas as to why my broadband speed may be so slow. At the beginning of September hubby and I were able to watch an hour iplayer documentary from beginning to end with no buffering. Fast foward to today and we can't watch more than 10 seconds at a time without buffering. I should add we…
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Non booting Acer Aspire 5732 Z
Colleague has had some issues with her own laptop in thelast few weeks, first it was running slowly, which I fixed by installing &running Malware bytes, Norton 2012 & tune-up utilities. It then started resetting if the keys were pressed hard(this was at the login stage). Now screen will not display anything or make…
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Lovefilm and ipad problem
i have a Lovefilm account and went to watch something on my ipad and a box with a message saying Security Check it appears you have deactivated your ipad via lovefilm.com but i have not done this and i have checked online and my ipad is still showing. so what could be the problem? i have deleted the App on ipad and…
