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New laptop screen blank
Bought a HP laptop on black Friday, and its been fine. Was using it yesterday, put it down as i usually do for an hour and it usually goes into a screensave mode (no dancing animations though, just a blank screen). When i pressed the space bar to activate the page where i have to log back in, nothing, it was still…
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Nokia lumia 610 - photos stored in memory
Hi, Can anyone tell me if it's possible to salvage photos and music stored in memory of Nokia Lumia 610. No longer use the phone and would like to pass it onto my husband but would like to save photos & music if possible. Unfortunately, I'm not very techie minded so if too complicated will have to admit defeat:(. Thanks in…
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Gaming PC - "Steam" Question?
I have ordered a gaming PC for my grandson's Christmas present. The PC is installed with two hard drives a 240Gb SSD which runs the operating system and an ordinary drive 1TB for storage. My next problem which I know nothing about is that he wants "Steam" installed, which I believe is a paid download site for games, so how…
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BootMGR is compressed :-(
Hi. I've had (and read) some pretty good computer advice here in the past - so it's always my first port of call these days :p Basically to cut to the chase, my computer is stuck in a loop and won't boot up. It just goes to a black screen with white writing at the top which says "BOOTMGR is compressed" Press Ctrl+Alt+Del…
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No plug in on Google Nexus 7
Just bought. It DOES play vidoes/U tube, etc, but when I go to free film site (Putlocker), the 'main video' will not play as there is no 'plug in' (apparently Nexus does not support). The secondary video (different format) plays OK…
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How does Chromecast Work?
If I want to watch a DVD on my TV, which is rarely, I just run a lead from my computer to the TV. My DVD player is broken and I usually watch DVDs on my computer, but when a few of us want to watch, the room where my computer is is not big enough, plus the sound is better on my TV Someone suggested getting a Chromecast but…
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PayPal email
Hi I've received an email (and regularly do) from PayPal@e.paypal.co.uk addressed to me by my first and last name. I've spoken to PayPal and they stated that did the email address come from service@paypal.co.uk? I said, no, but as above. I was told to forward the email onto their spoof email address, and they would…
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Raspberry Pi 2 - can you program individual cores?
Can you program the individual cores? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00T2U7R7I?!!!!!hotukdealsev-21 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Desktop (Quad Core CPU). I was just wondering if it's possible? and is there a language that'll let me do it? I used to do a bit of parallel programming and wouldn't mind trying out a few…
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Firefox 64-bit for Windows
is now available via the Firefox download page
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Thunderbird & Win10
I have just upgraded a Win7 desktop to Win10 and cannot send or receive emails from three different accounts in Thunderbird Do not know what happened but it's working now!
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Can anyone help Santa?
Santa has received a letter from an eager young Minecrafter who has wished for '(if possible) more YouTube subscribers' to his Minecraft Let's Play channel. As Santa isn't too knowledgeable about such matters, can anyone suggest how I could possibly go about granting this wish? Santa has created a twitter account but again…
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Google Earth problem
Google Earth has stopped working on my PC. It’s been in use on a fairly regular basis for several years and I’ve tried everything I can think of to get it working again without any success, so I decided to uninstall and then reinstall it (several times) but after each successful install it continues to fail to open. That…
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Smart phone - keyboard gone missing
I have an HTC smartphone from which the screen keyboard has gone missing. Given that the keyboard is simply a function of the processor, could someone explain what has gone wrong to create such a problem ?
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Recomend me a desktop
Right, as a few of you know I want to run a twin monitor set-up and am after some recommendations for a desktop please. Requirements are the following: able to run 2 monitors (I'm guessing HDMI, or displayport?) Core i5 or faster 4GB RAM or more to be physically smaller if possible 3 or 4 USB ports Windows OS Can anyone…
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Hudl 2 not charging
Does this sound like the charging port is broken. When I plug the charger in the led goes red then I get a red battery icon with a red exclamation mark.
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Where can I get an OS with IE8 installed?
Most of our NHS customers are still using Internet Explorer 8 (could be worse, our Govt contracts are on Internet Explorer 6 - no wonder their systems are so easy to hack!) Trouble is, I need to do some debugging on native IE8 (compatibility mode with IE8 doesn't cut it) I have MSDN but the win server 2008 R2, windows 7…
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Netflix on Freesat?
Any chance that this will ever happen?
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Now TV
Hi, Just wondered which option provides the best picture quality for watching Sky Sports - watching via chromecast or via the now tv box? (now tv box would be connected to internet via wifi, not ethernet). thanks
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BSoD (kernal_data_inpage_error) since last windows update of Win7
I have a modern (i5 Processor) PC running windows 7 Pro (my choice.) It is not modified in any way and has no special software. I do not play games except modest ones. It has an NVIDIA graphics card. Generally I use the Chrome interface with Google as my front end/search engine. It is cabled into the Virgin media router on…
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What's up with the forums? (techie issue!)
Has anyone else had any issues with the forum (from a technical position)? I can't see any of my replies to threads when I submit them, but they then appear on the forum page when I click to leave a thread and if I go back into a thread after having clicked out. It means I can't edit any of what I type- if I try to edit…
