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How to make sure I receive all emails?
Hi folks I have a Yahoo email account and it seems that I am not receiving some of the emails sent by my friends/colleagues etc. Can you be kind enough to advice what I need to do in order to make sure I receive all emails? Thanks in advance for your response.
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help home cinema system
hi, having trouble with my new home cinema system i have a umc tv a tivo box an lg bh7420p home cinema system tried lg as much use as a chocolate teapot! currently have tivo to blu-ray by hdmi blu-ray to tv hdmi tivo sounds fine through the surround sound but cant get home screen of cinema system on screen to set up wi-fi…
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Samsung Issues
Hopefully posted in the right place.....if not, please be gentle with me! I decided to buy a Tablet for home use and spent a lot of time looking into it, my final choice was a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, and it is an excellent tablet. Before I bought it I realised it was running Honeycomb so I phoned up Samsung Sales and was…
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Upgrading XP to Windows 8 with an SSD
My wife has a Dell Mini 10 netbook which is about 3 years old and quite slow, despite me having cleaned it up and having upgraded her RAM to 2GB. I was thinking of installing Windows XP on a new SSD to speed things up for her (I built my own desktop PC with W7 on an SSD), but then I discovered it is not recommended to run…
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Urgent help needed with PC password - practical joke gone wrong?
DS2's dad has just dug out a PC he hasn't used for some time only to discover that someone (not him) has applied a password. There is no guest a/c, just the single option and the password hint is "hiccup". Is there any way at all around this? He has an urgent job to complete (first one for over a year) and needs access to…
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Dell XPS L501X - Speakers
My 2 year old Dell XPS laptop has started making a crackling sound when the speakers are switched on. It doesn't appear to be there when the laptop comes out of sleep or is switched on but starts to get louder after a while. It completely disappears when I put in headphones. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this?
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A favour from Google Chrome users
Hi all, I need someone or someones to check something for me please if you are using Google Chrome. When you log into a secure site so you get the green padlock, if you click on the padlock do you get something that looks like this below? It seems to have changed as i am used to something more like this. Just wanted to…
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Building a new PC
My old PC is getting pretty slow (it's about 4 years old) so it's time to build up a new one but I'm not really up with current technology. I'm thinking of a base of an SSD and an i5 or an i7 but what's the best "bang for your buck"? The SSD is only going to be used for the OS, etc. I already have SATA drives I'll be…
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HDMI cable length
What is the longest HDMI cable allowable ? I want to run a cable from one bedroom to another - the TV is in one bedroom - the PC set up is in another....
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Best Alternative to Adsense Ads For Adult Sites?
Google doesn't allow its Adsense ads to be put on "adult" sites: can anyone suggest a good ad network that allow their ads to be put on adult sites? My site is nothing heavy - just a few naughty stories. Best Ad network for adult sites I've found so far is Dynamic Oxygen which is easy to sign up to, allows adult sites,…
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Computer memory
Is any info stored in RAM or the processor of my old desktop. I'm thinking about passwords and bank account info.
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Advice needed for Solar Powered Indoor Lighting
Hello I was hoping to get some advice on the following idea I have. I would like to put together a solar powered LED lighting system for my bungalow. The idea for the system is to give enough ambient lighting to stop the mains electricity lights from being used quite so much. For example, we have a gloomy kitchen, even in…
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best freeby for video screen capture?
I want to record some learning videos from my PC desktop and microphone ideally upload videos to my web space so they can be streamed straight from the web only software I can find is Camtasia its OK but was abandoned in 2010 so I'm wondering if there's better free by out there for this job p.s. 'techy' is too big a…
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Simple Sky HD question
I've inherited a Sky HD box. I have a Full HD TV. Presuming I get all the right cables, I can swap my existing Sky box (that I'm using to watch Freesat) for the Sky HD box and watch BBC HD channel and any other free HD channels in HD? Just spent 45 mins searching MSE and t'internet and can't find a clear yes/no answer to…
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No picture when Wii switched on
Haven't used Wii for several months - switched on and no picture - sound is ok though checked all cables and manual etc but still no picture is my system kaput!?
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Solar Charger Recommendations
OH often goes for walks in the wilds and on those occasions when he's gone for a couple of days, he's had to be careful as he hasn't been able to charge his phone etc. So, for Christmas I was thinking of getting him a solar charger....but can anyone give me any recommendations. (gadgets that usually accompany him include…
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What is the best way to store old photos (hard copies)
I've got a bunch of old B&W and colour photos (some are around 60 years old). I would like to store them in the safest way possible to prevent any further damage and disintegration. Can anyone recommend, from their personal experience, the best way of storing old photos? Thanks!
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What does this mean
I used Sony vaio laptop and I now keep getting a log in message with password that I know nothing about it. At the top it says http://cxpfy.com. I do not know what to do to get rid of it. Any ideas....:T
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WLDcore.dll missing?
Hi there, just installed Windows Essentials for Windows 8. When I click on the live mail I get the message WLDcore.dll missing from your computer. How can I fix this so I can get my mail box open to check my emails, using live mail
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problem opening attachments
since i upgraded my hotmail to outlook i have been unable to open attachments sent to me in emails. i have to go through the hassle of forwarding the email to a yahoo email and then opening it there. in outlook i click on it and get the box asking if i want to open, save or save as. i click to open and nothing happens. it…
