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After a Good 13.3" Laptop for under £400
Hi Guys, I purchased a Fujitsu AH512 15.6" Intel Pentium 2.2GHz Sandybridge Windows 8 Laptop the other day but am finding it big, heavy and slow. Can anyone recommend a well made laptop with a 13.3" screen for under £400. I have always had Sony in the past but would prefer to keep costs down. I would be grateful for any…
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Recommendations for web design software
I maintain the website for our micro-car club Micro Maniacs and have been using Microsoft FrontPage as the website design software. Although rather old, FrontPage has served me well over the years. I’m comfortable using FrontPage to upload text, photographs, internal and external links and the odd bit of HTML code…
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pop ups
i have an 8gb windows 7 toshiba satelite , i am getting frequent pop ups , CONGRATULATIONS YOU MAY HAVE WON AN IPHONE , on xp you could remove from taskbar ... but not in windows 7 , im running avg antivirus and zonealarm , how do i remove them when flashing? very annoying ....... ta very muchly
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Booting computer from USB
Hi Techies Have a Asrock Fata1ity P67 motherboard. Everything worked fine for a few days, but then it crashed and as the Win7 install disks are in Thailand, I cannot repair from CD. Have used the microsoft usb/Dvd download tool and burnt a copy to USB. (Laptop DVD drive has given up, so reason for USB ) Problem is, that I…
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Transfer Outlook emails to outlook.com
Can anyone help me with a quick how-to on copying archived emails from an outlook account to outlook.com (Hotmail)? I have lots of emails archived in folders. Ideally I'd like to transfer whole folders (i.e. so I can still see who they were from on what date, rather than having to forward them each to the other account).
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lenovo idea tap
same page comes up all the time can not remove page
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How To Add to Address Book In Thunderbird?
I've just set up an email account for someone in Thunderbird (on Windows 7) She wants to add some addresses to the address book from her Inbox emails. (eg. Fred Bloggs emailed her, so how does she add his address without entering it manually)? I assumed that there would be a right click option on an address, but no. I then…
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Film to DVD
Hi i have films on my pc that i can put on to my phone no problem but with i try and put them on to dvd so i can watch on TV the dvd player says Disc empty. What am i doing wrong? The films are from "filmous.com" Every thing plays fine on the pc too. Thanks
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Zipped files
Can someone explain how I can open a zipped file that was originally made on a Windows XP computer and emailed to a Windows 7 computer. I have downloaded the file and can read the list of contents but when I click "open" on one of them, the computer is unable to read it.
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New sky router
Hi guys i have recently had a router upgrade (sagecom) from sky after my old netgear gave up the ghost.I can connect to the internet via my htc wildfire s and also my laptop. I am unable to recieve emais onto my phone yet i can access my email (yahoo) account from the lappy. Does anyone have any ideas as how to resolve…
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Baffled by 'no internet access' yet here I am
I was online today when after about 10 mins I had 'no internet access' with the little yellow triangle over the icon in the bottom right of the task bar. I thought I had lost internet connection due to the snow. But no I haven't. So what is happening? In network and sharing center, the full map has a red cross inbetween…
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Broadband connection logger
Hi All, Ive just switched BB provider from Sky to Tesco and im looking t o see if i can monitor the service by simply sending a ping to the Beeb website and log it to see if it times out. id like to try and set up something that will test every fewmi nutes. ive found a bit of code that ive saved as a bat file that will run…
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Conference call help needed
Calling anyone who is used to conference calls, please! :) I'm supposed to be having an important conference call later today with 5 other people from another company. I assumed I would host the call via Skype, which is how I usually do them. However, when I emailed to ask if the other participants were all using one line,…
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homeplug and virgin media
HI all I am on virginmedia, and as my PC is upstairs all my electrics are using wireless (netbook, TV, PS3, Phones), however I brought a bluray player at christmas that need a dongle thats £45 and the no name alternative will not work Would i be better off getting 200mbps homeplug set up and then putting that into my new…
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Need to by extension phone lead for Router.. RJ11? RJ12? RJ45
Hi all We have a Sky Broadband Router (D-Link) working perfectly well. However, we want to move it to the other side of the room (away from the phone socket). Therefore we need to buy a extended cable. At present, the 3 cables in the back of the router are labeled: Power, Ethernet & ADSL. I know what the Ethernet is. Power…
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Wi-fi advice needed
Im totally lost when it comes to wi-fi, Ive resisted the urge to use it for many a year and now need to start using it for my PC and my smartphone in the house. I have no idea how it all works, encryption etc, what to buy or what not to buy. I currently have a connection running straight from my aerial (I have wireless…
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Instagram Notifications Query
New user of instagram here. I have gone edit your profile, manage settings - push notifications, and set the settings there to off there for like, comment & contact notifications. But I still keep getting other notifcations from instagram - links to its photos. I want to stop these. How do I do that ? I can't see what…
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Thunderbird back to server?
I opened a Thunderbird account only because I wanted to back up my mails. However, I did not un-tick the default box (14 days) and when I tried to use my server from another terminal I discovered it was nearly empty. Any way I can reload my mail from TB back to my server? Not forwarding to myself because it will become a…
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keyboard isn't working
please help . im having to use onscreen keyboard with the mouse as actual keyboard isn't working, anybody kmow what ive done? edit to add I have hp pavilion g6
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Shop fixed laptop last week, now broken again!
Hi Guys, Just wondered if anyone can offer advice... I took my laptop into an independent shop as my laptop would not power on - anyway they wiped and reloaded it, costing me £70 I have had it back just one week, using it a few times, no issues, then I try and turn it on and the same problem occurs. I take it back, and…
