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google play store
My OH has an Acer iconia tablet. I'm unsure how long the tablet has been like this but he is unable to access the Google play store from the icon on the home screen. When he taps the icon it says 'no connection retry' and he does have a connection. Any ideas why this is?
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to enable us to use iplayer etc on the tv......
How do you decide or rather what is the criteria you look for when considering buying homeplug adapters ?
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Fiddling with my dongle....
... for over an hour and still can't open the flippiing thing! :mad: It's a 3 Huawei 3231 and (allegedly) the back cover slides off according to the paperwork though the 3 site says it's the front. Three broken nails later, can someone help avert the massive tanty that's brewing, please???
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Can anyone please help me with my Hoover Optima Washing machine ?
Hi, I have had my Hoover Optima Washing machine for over 7 years now. Over the last few months, it has been getting steadily worse ! Whatever wash cycle I now select, it will complete the 1st full wash and then empty the drum over several minutes. I then get an 'E03' error message and the wash then stops. I then turn the…
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Hidden facebook other inbox
Hi guys. Does anyone know how to turn off the Other inbox in facebook? I just found a pile of ancient unread messages there. Apparently if someone isn't your friend and they message you, it goes to the Other inbox, but facebook doesn't notify you and it's not something I ever check. Could we have something in the weekly…
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movie maker on win 8 doesnt recognise camcorder
i have just got a new laptop with windows 8 and i have discovered that the mpeg files from my camcorder are not recognised in movie maker. i dont want to lose video quality by converting to mp4 files so wondered if there was a way of being able to make a simple movie either by using another program or minimal quality loss…
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Dell W8 disc with other laptops
Hi all, I have a Dell W8 disc (not the recovery discs you can make) that when I have used, has installed a clean no bloatware (no Dell apps or drivers) install of W8. Can this be used (both technically and legally) to do a clean install on another W8 laptop (from another manufacturer)? I am assuming that as it picks up my…
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Connecting Sony Bluray player to Monitor via VGA
I just bought a Sony BDP-S3100 Blu ray player and want to connect it to my fairly old computer monitor via VGA. I have got a HDMI to VGA converter and I've changed the output of the Bluray player to 720p so my monitor can play it. Now all is good until it comes to playing DVDs or Blurays. Every time I try to play a disc it…
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Convert Iplayer to DVD
I'd like to convert a couple of programmes from iplayer format and record them onto DVD. I have found a couple of free downloads that can do this, but they put a watermark on the DVD. Are there any free ways of doing it without a watermark?
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Wireless home cinema?
Hi all, Another quick techie question. Do these exist and are they any good? Thanks
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Suggestions for new printer?
Ok, Epson have fixed it so that my D92 no longer accepts generic cartridges and, to me, this renders it useless so it will be heading for the dump. I've held off buying a replacement till now as I thought there might be some offers in the sales. Can anyone point to any offer on a fairly simple, straightforward…
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PC / Desktop for HD Camcorder editing
Hi everyone, Technophobe here. I am after a cheap desktop that is capable of dealing with HD film and photo editing. I bought a Panasonic HX-WA20 16.4 MP Camcorder about a year ago and now need to start editing the recordings on there. My current desktop is well well out of date and needs replacing. I am after some advice…
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Anybody bought a new iPhone 4S with iOS7?
Can anybody tell me their experience of the battery performance of a new 4S running iOS7? I have a 2 year old iPhone 4S which I upgraded to iOS7. The battery was fine with iOS6. With iOS7 it is having battery problems such as rebooting and showing the charge warning at 47%. I have adjusted the settings to use as little…
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Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered
Three year old Acer 8935g running Windows7. In recent weeks my laptop screen has started blanking for a fraction of a second and coming back on with the following message. It is happening a few times every day. The laptop was built just before the Windows7 launch when Vista was current. I bought it with Vista installed on…
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What is the danger of ?
When using pc cleaners such as C Cleaner,Glary utilities etc the free versions, you can often find on the web free codes which will give you the full paid for version.What is the danger of using these if they work.I tried a couple on an old laptop i have and the codes worked.The codes are on youtube etc so i am not…
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Keyboard Problems . with double leters
I have a Labtec wireless mouse and keyboard, which for some reason always gives problems when the batteries are changed. It always seems to take several attempts, then a couple of reboots to the computer before the keyboard works again. Now every time I type a double leter . only one shows if I type t and t, everything is…
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Rechargeable batteries
I love my digital radio, I have one for the bathroom and one for the garage and use rechargeable size AA batteries for them, and a few other items in the house. I replaced them all about 3 years ago, but over recent months they will not hold a charge well and run down in a few days. I have bought some replacements but have…
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Which HP laptop - your thoughts
I am after getting a new laptop to use for emails, surfing, Microsoft Office and Photo shop applications etc. I was thinking about getting the HP Pavillion 15 here None Touch Web Exclusive Price £399.00 Price in store £449.99 Intel® Core™ i5-4200U processor Windows 8 Memory: 8 GB Hard drive: 1 TB Then I found out about a…
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Generic host process for win32 error???
every time I boot up my laptop I get this error message and it tries to shut down. I can no longer connect to network as ip conflict error when I run ip config it tells me that it has disabled system until it gets a new ip but my tablet work fine so the connection is okay what shall I do???? is it terminal? Claire
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Memory full samsung galaxy ace
Dd has this message appearing. I have searched and it suggest putting contacts on to sd card etc but when I go into apps to move them the move to,sd card is greyed out so I can't Just managed to delete her contacts for her by mistake! Anyone help please
