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Intel Celeron 1005M processor - any good?
I found this laptop on eBay's Daily Deals section: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-TM-15-6-Intel-Dual-Core-8GB-RAM-750GB-HDD-Laptop-/360784837705 My sister is after a new laptop for web browsing, word processing, Skype, etc. I'm a little concerned about the processor. Is it a good processor? It's one of Intel's new…
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Preserving photos for ever
Looks like I have a hard drive crash, a drive which had all my photos on won't wake-up, luckly its all backed-up. With hard drives only lasting about 10 years and thumbs drives about the same, how can I preserve over 15 years of photos? The only whay I can think of is printing them but that would take 1000's of pounds.
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Cheap android tablet/phone with bluetooth
Hi Can anyone recommend a cheap android phone/tablet that has bluetooth? I only want it for using a single app that I can't get on my blackberry so that's why I am looking for cheap and used. I was thinking around £30-£40 for a used budget model, but I don't know if that's realistic! Thanks
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Problems viewing mse on Android (dolphin browser)
When viewing the forums on dolphin browser on S4 I'm having to scro ll down for ages before getting to the posts, i have page upon pageof mse si te info. Just wondered if anyone has this? It's really annoying.
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Samsung Galaxy Note tablet - not working
Hi, I bought Samsung galaxy note 16GB 10.1 inch from Tesco direct for last christmas. this always used to work fine. but since last week, the battery is not charging. Even after I left it charging for almost half a day, battery doesn't get charged. additionally I have difficulty even turning the tablet on. After much…
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Installing kaspersky 2009
Have tried to install this but having problems would be grateful for any advice. I run window 7 64 bit. After installation it came up driver incompatible. File & memory task cannot be started. Not implemented. Databases out of date. Some components cannot be enabled, i have tried running programme compatibility using xp.…
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Automating updates
Hi all I usually get roped in to sort out peoples laptops (with the usual help from people on here) after they've installed something random and it's !!!!!!ed something up so I'm after a bit of advice. I usually set most people up with User access (and no password, they can add one if they feel like it) and myself up with…
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scam phonecalls re poor internet connection
just a heads up that they are doing the rounds yet again (if they ever stopped!) just had a call from India from a guy claiming to work for a company that does techie stuff for virgin ,BT talk talk and sky something like ces soloutions and they have detected issues with my comp being slow and they can sort it out if i turn…
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advice on camcorder
my son is getting married and I want a camcorder that will work well in good light & low light but also have decent battery life, a memory card and able to download to computer & dvd etc. Having said all that I know nothing at all about camcorders but my son has picked out 2 in his price range and I would be really…
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Windows clock issue.
My windows XP computer is around 9 years old and just lately the clock has started losing an hour or so overnight when it is switched off. I have to synchronize it again in the morning - after which it is fine for the rest of the day. Can't find any malware or virus after scanning both in normal and safe mode so possibly…
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Virgin Media;no dolby digital on ITVHD?
I was at a friends house yesterday and watching itvhd channel on VM Cable appears not to have dolby digital sound!?!? On VM Cable the soundstream is just normal DVB MPEG stereo, and I adjusted the box settings to decode and reproduce DD sound (still makes no difference though). But if itvhd on satellite carries a dolby…
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windows 8 loosing internet conection? windows 7 fine?
as above we have 2 laptops in our house mine (windows 7 ) works fine, but my sons who is windows 8 constantly looses the connection , usually after 10-20 mins of use, its very frustrating and causing all sorts of problems when he is trying to do his homework can anyone advise not sure if its the laptop or windows 8 problem…
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Tesco Hudl - can you download from BBC iPlayer?
I have an iPad and one of the main things I use it for is downloading BBC programmes to watch when not connected to the Internet. I want to get a smaller tablet but know that you only only watch and not download with some of them. According to the BBC website you can download on the Hudl. I wanted anyone who actually uses…
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Security Camera to to stop Thieving
My house got hit last night. The burglar cleaned my wife out of all her jewelry, no less than $10,000!:mad: Looking for a security camera we can install on the building. Where I can remotely view, and support night vision. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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iPhone 4 Flickering
My mum's iPhone 4 has started flickering madly. I've taken a (not very good!) video of it happening. As you can see it calms down with touch, and restarts again straight away. It hasn't been dropped, or anything that may account for it. I've tried searching - the only fix I've seen suggested is turning off auto-brightness…
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Changing back to IE7 from IE 10
Hi can anyone tell me how I can revert back to ie 7 from ie 10 please also how can I keep the menu bar . Thank you
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Drop Box and samsung galaxy s3 question
Hello, I have a DB account and DB is also installed onto my new S3. When I take photos they auto sync to my DB account which is good. In my DB account it has one folder called Mobile uploaded photos. The thing is I take lots of photos and I want them into folders. The samsung s3 is really easy to put them into folders. The…
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Facebook upload photos via email
Hi all I currently upload my photos to facebook via email. I have a unique facebook email I send my photos to - photos then appear on my fb page. I have accidently forwarded a photo with my fb photo upload email address to my friend. Does anyone know how I can change this email address? I have looked on google but cant…
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photo dvd
i am about to put arrange some 300+ photo's onto a DVD to pass to people what do i need to do before burning to disk i.e do i need to save in any format or can i just arrange them in order then burn straight to disk
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blue screen - dell PC
Hi I noticed a few threads with similar problems. I have downloaded the NirSoft blue screen thing but dont know what to do with it. This is the info on the blue screen: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3 Locale ID: 2057 Additional information about the problem:…
