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The value of old electronics ?
Recently, an original Apple 1 computer sold for stupid money, even though it was just a motherboard. The news stated that it was from 1976, but transisterised items were not made public until 1978, in computers. So question. A recent TV program about 'Now that's that we call Music', having reached a milestone, says ye olde…
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Browser selection
Dear all, I had Mozilla firefox running my pc when something went wrong and I was getting weird sites come up. I then deleted the Firefox and installed Internet explorer which is also giving me a lot of problem. I now want to go back to Firefox but don't know how, can any one suggest some easy steps please. sebastian
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MS word docs saving as internet explorer
For some reason, many of my MS word documents in my folders are listed as Internet Explorer files..so when i click to open one up, Internet explorer launches (although I have firefox as my default browser). This is also the case when i download word documents from my email..again, IE launches..it's so annoying and i can't…
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The White Pages from UK to USA
I am trying to search some one in america and I am in uk, the problem is in the box on their site it has zip code of course it wont accept my postal code. so is there a site where I can search some one in America from uk. What I mean is, it wont let me join the site, as when put in address it ask for zip code to do a…
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Changing Broadband providers Is speed the same
I am looking at changing my broadband provider. Am I right in assuming that similarly to electric in gas, no matter who you are with the quality, line speed and reliability should remain the same? I am with MAAF and looking at changing to either EE or O2
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Excel: Highlighting the highest and lowest values
Hi I need some help using conditional formatting please (or another way to automatically highlight the highest and lowest values in a number of cells within a row.) For example, if I have the cell values: C1=1, C3=3, C5=5, C7=7 D1=2, D3=1, D5=11, D7=2 E1=2, E3=2, E5=4, E7=2 I need C1, D3 and E1, E3, E7 to be highlighted in…
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Cheap student laptop
Any ideas for a cheap but reliable laptop for a uni student? Around the sub 150/200 mark?
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PDF editor - free
I have the results of a year of family tree work as a PDF to edit - I need to add a few pages of "graphics/photos etc" I use OpenOffice - so can convert DOC to PDF easily But to edit the PDF - I can either convert to DOC (Not as straightforward as you may think - problems with some of the graphics when I try the on-line…
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Anyone here claiming to be a Messiah then?
I am waiting to be rescued from the evils of Microsoft, Google, Apple.......
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Blue Screen
Hope some kind person can help. Over the last couple of days my 7 year old Dell PC on XP (SP3) has been crashing with Blue Screen. Error message Invalid_Process_Attach_Attempt STOP: 0x00000005 then other numbers which differ each time. Last night I rebooted in Safe mode and did a system restore back to 19 May (an…
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Can you save a Twitter picture?
As title really. Someone has tweeted during their holiday and shown pics. Is it possible to save or print the pic? I can only seem to save the whole web page.
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Which Lumix?
I'm looking to buy a new compact digital camera and I have narrowed it down to 2 different models of the Panasonic Lumix: DMC-FS45EB-K (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-DMC-FS45EB-K-Megapixal-Camera-Optical/dp/B006U98JXK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1369983969&sr=8-2&keywords=lumix+fs45) DMC-FS50EB-K…
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What's the best security for my hp notebook please?
Hi I have just got a hp pavilion dm1 4401sa from John Lewis and I'm unsure whether to stick with Norton which we had on our now dead laptop or if it is worth relying on the McAfee that comes free with Plusnet. Perhaps something else is better for netbook with slower processors. We found that once installed Norton 360 was…
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How does a tablet connect to the internet?
Thinking about getting a tablet well more like winning one :D Just wondering how it connects to the internet I know dongle works on them but how to get internet without one.
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Why do idiots put viruses out?
Why do idiots put viruses out? Two days ago I reformatted OH's computer because some prat sent a virus now it's happened again! Why don't the courts treat these f-ing prats as terrorists and send them to be shot and instead hand out suspended sentences for the the prats to go again! Complete wasters!
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Windows 8/Libre Office/
I downloaded Libre Office and it works fine except I cannot change the end of the file to .doc or .docx. The option is there but it tells me the format is wrong and won't change it. Is it possible to change it? I am using Windows 8.
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Anything suspect in this log?
Laptop has been slow running and IE takes ages to load. Ran Hijackthis and hope I'm posting the right stuff below. Appreciate if anyone in the know can have a look and advise if there are any suspect files. Seems very long! Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 19:59:17, on 30/05/2013 Platform:…
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A couple of hopefully small PC problems...
Something has happened to my desktop PC overnight it would seem. I'm hoping the two issues i've found are related. Sound - I can hear things through the speakers as normal, but if I hit a key by mistake, rather than make a noise through the speakers, it now makes it through the machine's base unit. This is a minor, if…
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Administrator access to PC
My daughter has an old Dell laptop running Widows XP. It was supplied from her work but when the staff got newer laptops they were allowed to buy the old laptop for a nominal fee. It has not been used for a couple of years. She can log on using her password(as a non-administrator) She thought she had the password as an…
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sony vaio i5 opinions?
think my HP G72 laptop is coming to the end of its days. seems to be taking ages to turn on and shut down. its working okay for browsing the internet, e-mails etc. but if i want to watch videos, you tube, or on-line games it overheats within minutes i have ran cc cleaner,malwarebytes,full system scan, blasted the vents…
