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Buy Kindle Fire from Amazon or Argos?
Hi I'm going to buy a Kindle Fire, given up hope of the price coming back down to £99 but I can stretch to £129. I was wondering if it's better to buy from Amazon or Argos? I have a £10 voucher for Argos, but was wondering if the customer service etc will be better if it breaks if i buy it from Amazon? Are there any other…
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Extending wifi at home - help required
Hi people, can anyone help me? I'm looking to extend my wifi range at home. I currently have two netgear wifi routers (the ones given free with Sky Broadband) and a pair of Ethernet Homeplugs (not wifi enabled). It’s not practical to hardwire Cat5 cable from one router to the other due to the distance/layout of my home.…
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PC Specialist - any good?
Hey all, I've seen them mentioned on here a couple of times, and their pre-sales support have been good at answering emails. Has anyone on here bought a system from them? Any good? Thanks in advance.
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How can I access an old email account?
Ages ago I had a Compuserve email account designated [EMAIL="NAME@compuserve.com"]NAME@compuserve.com[/EMAIL]. I have since migrated to an own domain name email account. Is there any way I can check my old Compuserve email account to see what has accumulated in it, and could anybody give me an idiot's guide as to how I…
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Sky mail problem
Can anyone please advise. Whenever I try to sign into sky Email with the correct passwords etc which I have done for many years, it reverts me back to the sky homepage. Sky say it is a problem with my laptop and not their equipment. I can access all mmy bank and personal accounts, in fact everything exceptt my sky mail.…
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McAfee updates
Hi all. I have McAfee Internet security. Can anyone tell me if it is normal every time i turn on my lap top there is a or some McAfee updates to be installed. I would say i use the lap top once every other day. I used it yesterday and had updates and today 24 hrs later i have a message saying i have updates again. I do…
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HDMI on Laptops
Hi, Probably a silly question, but I have to ask.... most laptops these days have an HDMI port - can someone please tell me what you would use this for? The only thing I can think of is connecting a blueray, but why would you do this when presumably, you can play it directly on the laptop's dvd drive?
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Tablet App Removal
Is it possible to completely un-install an App? I have an App form a local newspaper, that lets you read their paper for free for the first month. After the first month, you have to subscribe to be able to read it. Is there a way to un-install and re-install so the app resets itself? On a PC, I would do this by completely…
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Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Free
CS2 Suite free! Anyone wanting it can download CS2 free of charge from Adobe. Obviously an older version as they are on CS6 but still has loads of functionality http://www.itworld.com/consumerization-it/334097/free-download-adobe-creative-suite-cs2-photoshop-or-other-adobe-software-n
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Quick HP Laptop spec question
Hi all, hoping someone could clear something up for me. Just looking to buy a laptop - not for me personally. The models they are interested in are the current HP deals in PC World. They are: HP Pavilion g6-2210sa Processor : Intel® Core? i5-3210M processor (2.5 GHz, 3.1 GHz with Turboboost, 3 MB L3 cache) RAM : 6 GB…
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Recording Sky To PC
Hi guys, could anyone advise as to the best way to record from a Sky HD box to PC. I don't subscribe and they have turned the internal recording feature off. I have been doing some research and have tried a couple of things. 1 - running RF cable into TV card in PC (no channel found) 2 - running a red/black/yellow composite…
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Vista home 32 sp2 bsod 21a
Your vote please! I recently had to use malwarebytes to remove the Vista Defender virus. Each day the system fails on start-up with bsod 21a; repair option just shuts down. Usually within a restart or two it will start normally and work all day without issues, even if restarted. Yesterday I also got a 7f and 4f before it…
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Unexplained ISP usage
Sony Laptop Vaio Windows 7 Explorer 8 So I suddenly get a huge amount of data downloaded according to my ISP. This has happened a few times, so this time I queried it, and they sent me an hour by hour breakdown of up/downloads. 0.0xxMB each hour till 15.00 (2.72MB download) and 16.00(199.70MB). Now I know I switched on the…
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Virginmedia modem bin it or Ebay it?
A few months ago my old Virginmedia modem decided to stop working so I contacted Virginmedia and got a new Netgear VMDG280 wireless modem. My internet is supposed to have been upgraded from 10 mbs to 20 mbs in December so I finally decided to contact Virginmedia as to why I was still only getting 10 mbs. Their answer, I…
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major problems with itunes - will not uninstall ???
need some help folks please I'm going stir crazy trying to get my iphone to connect/synce to itunes on my main laptop I have tried a number of things off various forums (mostly off apple) none have worked (and far to many to list, beleive me) anyway I have tried the iphone on a notebook and and another laptop, both appear…
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Wi-fi connectivity issues
Hi, We have a lot of wireless devices across our house - TV's, IPOD's, Android and IoS units, laptops, both work and home. They all connect into a decent, year old TP link router, with a good signal around the house. I've started getting intermittent disconnections on a acer Laptop (yeah, I know they're not great, but as a…
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Help With Making Roster In Excel
Hello I would like some help with information on how to work out a roster in excel as I am not sure the best place to start tbh. Ok here goes I work in a shop with 21 employees all working different hours eg part time, full time, with a mix of some people who do set shifts like the students who only work nights/weekends,…
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Using Open office on Windows 8?
Bought my dd a laptop for christmas with Windows 8 and we are really struggling with it.....eventually we found Notepad (what a palavaer!! - thank god for youtube!) but she wants to write essays on it. Can I download Open Office onto it and where is the best site to download it from? cheers
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iSyncr not syncing play counts
For some reason my Isyncr has stopped syncing play counts between my Samsung S3 and Itunes. I've checked and the play count box has a tick in it on the phone and I've tried syncing with both USB and WiFi but it still doesn't transfer the play count. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I need to do. It's worked for a few…
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Old Garmin
Hi Everyone I have a 2007 Garmin Nuvi 200 that needs the maps updating, went to the Garmin site and they want £75 for a lifetime update. Am i better off just buying a new model,
