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How secure is the tablet for purchasing items?
Have a Samsung tablet. It is either the note or tab. It is the cheaper of the two. Kids use it to download free games etc. Have AVG antivirus free installed. How secure is the tablet for purchasing items using credit card?
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How to connect Android tablet to tv
Hi I've bought a cheap iRulu tablet for my OH's birthday (SS has one and loves it). How do I connect this to our tv? The tablet has either a mini or micro USB port (manual not clear), and I got a USB on the go cable with it. I know I need an HDMI cable but can anyone help please? Not had a chance to investigate it properly…
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Computer Problems, what to do?!
Hello everyone, Bearing in mind I'm not computer literate at all, can someone help me with my dilemma?! I've got a windows vista computer I've had for a couple of years now. I haven't used it for about four months so I decided to go on it again. It kept freezing, getting stuck on the welcome page, loading then freezing…
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Fighting spam in outlook
RE outlook webmail (ex hotmail).. Does anyone know of a way of blocking by senders ip address? There is no point in blocking by domain as most seem to be autogenerated/fake domains ta
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Is it worth repairing?
I have a Lenovo T61 had it for about 7 years and I've had certainly my money's worth out if it and now I'm thinking it's now at the end of it's life. Is it worth repairing? It's an Intel Dual Core T7300 2.0Ghz processor with 3GB memory with the Intel 965 chipset. HDD is only 175GB but plenty big enough for my needs (it's…
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Fibre broadband - silly question time
Have signed up with EE Fibre broadband, apparently they do not send an engineer to setup anything. When I asked them how will the fibre broadband actually work then as I have never fibre broadband before and so far I have only had the 'normal' broadband where you plug into your phone line. They answered by saying that they…
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Are all in one PC's any good?
As I have a 1GHz 12 year old PC running windows xp, I thought it would be a good time for an upgrade. So looking through the different towers I came across several touch screen all in ones. Now I don't want to spend too much as I only use it for web browsing e-mails etc so effectively a light user as my daughter has a…
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Dual Monitor on TV
Hi guys Just a issue im having. Im using windows 7 with GA-G41MT-S2P motherboard. I wanted to use my tv as a second monitor ie extended monitor. Ive bought pci graphics card (geforce gt 210) to use for the second monitor (TV). When i try and connect the tv via vga connection to the graphics card , it doesnt seem to respond…
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windows 8 updates
is there a way to stop automatic updates ? Twice in 2 days windows has updated and my internet connection has been lost. . I am yet again having to do a system restore.
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Intel sub mini PC's
Have any of you tried one of these ? http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/nuc/overview.html They are extremely small (about 4 inches by 4 inches by 2 inches) They have a 4th gen i5 processor, upto 16Gb RAM , SSD, All the ports that you could ever need, Bluetooth / Wireless, HDMI.... Novatech have given us one to try at…
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printer
what would you recommend for a home printer
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facebook privacy
Using a desktop and IE browser, timeline Facebook was set so that personal info was not public. How come when using iPad or Apple Mac and safari browser these settings were over-ridden and personal data was public? Is it due to the device or browser or what? Facebook has not bothered to answer and Apple store people don't…
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Factory Settings?
I'm selling my Acer PC and want to restore it back to Factory Settings but there aren't any partitions or eRecovery Management. I've tried pressing various F keys at Start Up but nothing seems to work. I'm only able to restore it to an earlier time and not back to factory settings. Is there a way to restore it back to…
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google earth freezing pc when on streetview
pc specs dx2420 intel 2.5 ghz dual core 4gb dr2 ram ati radeon hd 5450 512mb graphics card standard 300w hp psu the problem is with Google earth om streetview. as i move along the street after about 10-15 seconds the screen freezes and the computer stops responding, restarting is the only option. the temp of the card is…
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New Laptop recommendations please sub £400
Hi my Samsung RV510 laptop has cracked at hinge and now screen has split and it's innards are hanging out! Laptop is just over 3 years old and 'works fine' but is clearly on way out, is it worth repairing? I'm thinking its probably not, can someone please recommend me a cheapish Laptop. All i need to do is browse internet,…
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selling red samsung galaxy 2 7" how much to ask
I haven't a clue what to ask. still have box and its been hardly used. any suggestions? thank you
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Firefox browser troubles
Every time (since 6 wks ago) I click onto my Mozilla Firefox desk top icon I get a message asking if I want to "allow the following program to make changes to this computer". I have to click "Yes" or I can't get further. Also the time the PC takes to 'fire up' is now very long - 2 mins. Can anyone give me some idea as to…
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Is this genuine?
Hi folks, would be grateful if someone could tell me if this is genuine, please. Reported Web Forgery! This web page at cdn.bestware.org has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Web forgeries are designed to trick you into revealing personal or financial information by…
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Windows Live Mail Out of Office
My apologies if this has been asked before. The original Live Mail did not support a Out of Office tool - does the 2011 version ?
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WD External Hard Wont Show up on Dell Laptop
Am I in trouble? I have an old 500 WD External Hard which powers up okay but when I plug it into my Laptop running Windows 7 it won't show up. Has been fine up till now, I have been using it for quite a few years on the same machine. Is there a way I can re install the drivers maybe?
