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Samsung laptop - mousepad problems
My Samsung laptop, about a couple of years old, running on Win 8.1 but with Classic Shell/Win 7, and experiencing mousepad problems with it. If the cursor is about half or two-thirds of the way to the right- hand side of the screen, when I then move it to the left the Charms bar and that stupud clock thing appear. Other…
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Thinking of installing an SSD mainly to speed things up on windows?
Hi folks, I am thinking of installing an SSD as they seem to have come down in price a lot now, looking at the 250gb ones (any reccomendations) wanting to speed up boot time on my windows 7 32 bit desktop and maybe speed of launching applications. 1 I don't think I have a spare bay as I already have a few standard drives…
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Rename link
How can I change a link like this http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Garden-Tap-With-Double-Check-Valve-12mm/p/420055?CAWELAID=120135120000008369&CAGPSPN=pla&utm _source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_campai gn=Google+Shopping+-+Heating+%26+Plumbing&tmcampid=104&tmad=c&tmplacer…
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Infrequent computer hangs and live chat
Since installing Windows 8 (fresh install), my PC tends to freeze every couple of days. Usually there's no apparent reason for it, and WhoCrashed doesn't identify any problems. I have realised now that using Live Chat seems to cause the computer to hang on most occasions in the same way. I don't use them often but after…
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Will they try to force Windows 10 on people?
At the moment I am avoiding update downloads for the installation of Windows 10 on my laptop. The fact that, on the last bunch of updates, I did untick one update related to windows 10, to see it installed anyway, do not fill me with confidence. My gripe with window 10 is that I apparently will not be able to chose or…
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HELP PLEASE! : pixilated dots on black screen...is there anything I can do?
Really worried about this because I can't afford a computer MOT or any help that costs money. I am up to my eye balls in bills and can't take out any credit. I turned on my computer to find what I recognise to be a diagnostic screen. No idea why, I usually get a log in screen. I tried to exit the screen, the mouse and…
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Normalisation of AAC audio files...?
I have some AAC audio files that I want to put on an old iPod. The only problem is that they play at different volumes. Is there any software I can use to normalise the files... And can this be done losslessly (without decoding the AAC and transcoding again)? Cheers in advance for any suggestions :)
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Idiot Proof Laptop for MIL?
Does anyone have some ideas for cheap (sub £200) laptop/notebook for my MIL (think she would be more impressed the closer I got it to £100). She doesn't want a tablet. Criteria:- EMail Photos Web browsing I think that will cover it, it needs to run ok for those minor tasks and easy to clean out all of the crap she seems to…
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Network & BT Homehub 4
I have a Win7 Laptop wired into my BT Homehub 4 - I also have a Win 8 Laptop that connects wirelessly to the internet but the Win 8 laptop can not access the printer attached to the Win 7 laptop or it's files. An someone please tell me how to do this?
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kindle not playing through hdmi cable
I have a kindle hd fire and been watching showbox through hdmi cable to tv for past few months, not a problem, then all of a sudden it stops working and eveery time we try to play something this comes up on screen:- "unsupported signal adjust your pc output" Can anyone help, have no idea on what it means
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all of a sudden i cant attach documents in my emails urgent
Up until now I have had no problem attaching invoice documents with my emails, but yesterday I click the attach file icon, and its doing nothing, its very urgent I try and find out whats wrong, as I need to send an invoice today, so we can get paid.. any ideas whats wrong??
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Slow PC start - even to Bios
I have built myself a media server based on FreeNAS. It has been working very well for a few months but I discovered that I had made a mistake by using non-ECC ram. Some say it is not a big mistake but the more I looked into it I decided it was too much of a potential problem so I decided to rebuild it with another OS.…
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Sub £500 pc?
Hello. I'm looking for a good pc for my son to do his gaming on. The one recommended to me by pc world is the Lenovo H50 at £449.99 http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/lenovo-h50-desktop-pc-10109070-pdt.html Having very little knowledge of what all the fancy words mean I would be grateful if…
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Can you use bluetooth headphones on this sound board?
My friend's OH is starting a new job - though its overnights. They have this http://www.richersounds.com/product/soundbars-sound-base/denon/dhtt110/deno-dht110-blk as their soundboard, which is bluetooth enabled. Now, if my friend wants to watch tv when OH is asleep, she wants to listen via some wireless headphones. Now in…
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21CN query
Hi my village is due to go 21cn in the next two month, when we are moved to 21cn is this a change of the d-side.? The reason i ask is that the local BT OR engineers have been saying for a few years there a no good d-sides in the exchange left. Quite a few people including myself are on the best of a bad lot regarding the…
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BT Broadband issues and failed follow up!
I moved to BT broadband a few months ago from Sky. I never had issues with sky broadband but have had nothing but problems since going to BT, experiencing dead modems which they tried insisting on sending an engineer to check until I refused. Eventually they sent a new modem of which the cable was all that seemed to be…
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sound system ideas wanted
I use a "sum micro" media player , this will stream Vids and sound from either a attached hard drive / pen drive or media from my network (nas drive) , at present it is connected to my TV via a HDMI cable. I wish to alter the setup , use a 9 in monitor , etc , the thing is menu driven by a remote. it also has a audio jack.…
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Playing songs bought from a now-closed web store with WMP 12
I bought a digital copy of an album from either the MSN Music UK or HMV web stores back in around 2007/2008, which I then saved onto my computer that was running Windows XP SP3 and Windows Media Player (WMP) 11. I backed up my licences and kept a spare copy safe in case I needed it later. Fast forward to now, where my PC…
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Where can I buy GENUINE Samsung batteries? (s3 mini)
Hi, I have bought 4 replacement batteries for my s3 mini and although they all look official, none of them hold a charge any better than the old original battery. But since looking at two videos on YouTube, and removing the sticky cover of the batteries, two are definitely fakes, and the other two I can't tell. But they do…
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Watching region 1 DVDs on a laptop–advice needed please
I have an HP PROBOOK laptop and want to watch American region 1 DVDs ages ago I remember getting a warning message on screen about a limited number of times I am able to watch region 1 DVDs . Does anyone know if and how I can change the settings to allow me to watch them? I no longer have the manual that came with the lap…
