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free office suite required.
Can anyone recommend a small office suite please. I only need it for producing letters. Clearly spelling errors being identified is of importance.
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Music Playlist
Morning all, Not sure f this is the best place to post this so apologies in advance. I am looking at creating a play list to burn on to CD for a wedding playlist. (the venue only has a CD player). Now my issue is that all my CDs are locked away in a garage and I can't find the keys so I can't burn get the tracks I want…
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random reboots; fan noises
Hiya :-) Haven't been able to afford a new pc yet, so the weird fan noises have gone on for quite a few months. Cleaned inside a couple of times. Just done a format, and a couple of random reboots have happened. Hoping this pc lasts 5 more months, until the finances are there, and am unsure if it might just need an extra…
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Wireless Drives
I need to source a wireless hard drive, must have its own battery and be connectible via IOS and a laptop, anyone got any recommendations? Price isn't the first concern connectivity is.
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Extra back up advice please.
So we use a six year old Macbook and back up on an external hard drive with Time machine. I have deleted lots of pics and stuff that was on the Macbook so they now only exist on the external hard drive. I feel I should now back these up on something else but icloud is not available on 10.6.3 and when I tried to update to…
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Best PDF Reader for Windows
I have used Adobe and then Foxit. Foxit seems a bit bloated now and it appears I have now got to get an additional plugin for PDF's to display in Opera although Chrome displays PDF's without adding a plugin. Are there any free lightweight readers that just work?
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Laptop connection
Just been given an old lap top. Windows xp. Now for some reason I cannot get on the net. It connects to linux easily but will not to windows, yet I am seing that a connection has been made via ethernet but no packets received. Any thought s please?
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Alienware Hard Drive Failing
Hello 25 months ago I bought my son an Alienware computer 5i. Son has had problems with it. Called Dell at the weekend and they said they could not help as it was out of its Statutory Warranty period of two years. They suggested paying £89 collect and return and then they would diagnose fault and quote prices. Took it to…
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Keeps asking for update. Why?
Windows 7 os. Every time on switch on, I get a update message saying the following wants to change your computer. The message is: "A tool to aid developing services for windows NT" by windows update. I select no. I am suspicious of this. Does anyone know what this is, and how to get rid off it. Thanks.
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new hard drive and mother board installed
hi I have had the above installed on my pc but before i did this i saved all my email s windows mail 5 on a usb but now when i have tried to open it does not show my folder at all is there a way to get my folders back from the usb stick file
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over ride for yo u tube region coding?
keepvid. just saying!
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CTRL and F
I'm hoping someone can help. On windows and google chrome - I often use CTRL and F to find items/words on websites. Now suddenly the search box is not appearing on my screen, although it still highlights the words after I've typed them in. How do I fix it so I can see the box again please?
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Option to download XML version of credit report - how do I use it?
Hi all, Got an option on Noddle to download my credit report in XML format but no idea how to use the code generated to display the report and save it as an easily readable copy. Any ideas how to do this? The XML code is shown in a new browser window when I click the 'XML version' button but no idea of how to do the next…
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samsung N130
Hi. since my last post some weeks ago , i was asking the question of why after wiping my pc clean & removeing all the microsoft xp drivers etc , why was i unable to put sky go on to my TV screen. Well i had to go to my sons in Ireland & i took the i pad with me , i had no trouble getting the sky go to work on the tv for…
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Putting CD's onto ITunes/iphone
Hi looking for an idiots guide as to how to get Cd's into my new IPhone using ITunes. I have tried a couple of demos on Youtube with no joy as I think they had different iTunes versions than I have. Any complete novice guides out there pkease?
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Samsung Tablet
I've got a samsung tablet which turns the screen off when it thinks it has been put down, which includes being full places in the case, I have to hold it with the back of the case away from the tablet. Is there a way of turning this function off, i've looked through settings but can't work it out. Thanks
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Android alternative to Bing Finance
Hello, Just switched from a Windows Phone to Android. Can't seem to find an app that will just show me what the FTSE 100 is doing straight upon opening it. And let me keep track of certain shares. Can't seem to do any settings in Google Finance, Bloomberg's app has too much info, and Yahoo Finance apparently isn't…
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help on buying the right binoculars please
Not sure if this is the right thread but its kind of techie orientated I have no idea good brands/makes extras I need t be looking out for. Basically im after a pair of Binoculars for a present for someone who has 8 acres of land. So the purpose of them would be to watch wildlife in the garden - Doves, deers, heron ..... A…
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Avast SafeZone removal
Does anyone know how to remove Avast SafeZone browser that has just appeared on my laptop. I've done a quick google seach and others want to remove it, but how? I'm using vista
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Charge ipad on plane?
Is it possible on long haul flight?
