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Laptop around the £200 - £250
Hi it is not for myself but a friend and the problem is they only have "love to shop" vouchers so limited on where to shop I think. The Laptop is for college work and they have software such as office already so that's not a problem Any ideas or advice would be nice Thanks
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Medion laptops - any good?
We are now having to bite the bullet, sell stuff and try to get our business off the ground, and we need a laptop. I don't want to run Windows 10, and I do want a 17" screen. I have come across this Medion laptop and it looks ideal. http://www.medion.com/gb/shop/multimedia-laptops-medion-akoya-p7631-md9-30019050a1.html Has…
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Save £10 off your Amazon Order!
Only available until Midnight tonight! Evening Times (dot co dot uk) have this available until Midnight tonight!
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Eurosport
Best malware free site for wife to watch Andy Murray in Australian tennis open.tomorrow please. It's on Eurosport only I believe.
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Acrobat reader cd
For the last week or so Secunia has been flagging up the above as being out of date and I have tried everything I know within my limited computer knowledge to rectify this,why is this please
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PC Freeze ?
Screen keeps freezing for up to 3 minutes at a time ! done the "clean up " thingy but still happens ): Running Windows 7 Home Premium with all updates installed , suggestions ?
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Web hosting, changing from Mr Site, total novice
Hi, I am looking for recommendations to swap hosts for my low key website (info only) with Mr Site. I set it up with help from my local Business gateway years ago. I have literally no idea how to do any of this. Mr Site charges me £50/year, which I believe is not MSE at all. Are there any hosts that are easy to transfer to…
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Using Bluetooth Headphones on Modern TVs
My beloved Panasonic RF Wireless Headphones are giving up the ghost. Crackling and keep dropping signal, so time to upgrade. I assume with the USB ports on TVs. I can just plug in a USB bluetooth dongle and pair the headphones and I a up and running. Any issues with privacy with Bluetooth (others listening in what I am…
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why is internet so slow ?
laptop spec .. or broadband ..... what is it that determines how fast website pages load ?? Running a HP 255 laptop .. windows 7 professional.. 4gb ram .. amd-a4 proc 1.5gh it has aol 9.7 software ... and IE 11 Broadband is Virgin fibre running at 30-50mb .. Yet using internet it seems sooo slow on websites waiting for…
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2016 security suites
I have recieved a pop up saying my subscription to norton 360 is due to expire at the end of this month been to look on nortons website and they want £40 for a years protection :mad:…
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Online Security. OK or too far?
I have been using online financial services for a good few years & never had a problem. However, I am seriously increasing my usage with multiple current accounts, online brokers for pensions & ISAs & using sites like Ebay etc for purchases. At the moment I am using the same PC as I use for all my other stuff, work,…
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Good second hand/ refurb laptop ? around £300 budget
Any recommendations for which specifications I should look for when buying a laptop from Currys? I'm thinking a refurbished one I had a ACER ASPIRE E1-570 which sadly is too expensive to repair , faulty motherboard (this is my previous "repair" thread if it makes any difference…
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Enabled to access Yahoo mail on tablet
I have a Toshiba AT300 tablet, currently, I'm outside the UK, but cannot access my Yahoo emails, error message: secure connection could not be established, anyway I can overcome this?
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Need to transfur all my data from a Vista Pc to a New Windows 10 Pc
Hi I have a old pc running vista and I need to move all my data and settings to my new windows 10 pc. Thought at 1st i could use Windows easy transfur but looks like 1 cant use this with windows 10. Is there a easy way to do it?
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Word 2013 Problem
Hi, for some reason my Word 2013 (and Excel/Powerpoint in Microsoft Office) have stopped working on my Lenovo laptop. The message I see when I try to open a document/file is: winword.exe application error, Oxc0000142. I have trawled around various helpdesks and forums but I can't find a definitive answer. The advice that…
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google chrome cast
Just had a new TV and I was going to treat myself to a chrome cast dongle so I can sync my tablet to the TV. But I have just looked on google and I cant find it. Have they stopped making it or is there something similar on the market I could get instead?
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printer offline
Hi I got a new printer Samsung wifi, which was working when I tested it a couple of times. bit now I need to use it, I get a box saying your printer is in error state, so when I look it says off line? so I went into see whats printing, but the box that says use printer off line is greyed out ? I tried tuning on and off…
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There was a problem resetting your PC
I'm wanting to do a reset of my Windows 10 computer, as I have one or two little issues, and I'd like a clean(ish) install anyhow. But when I go to reset in the recovery dialogue, I get the message 'there was a problem resetting your pc' 'no changes were made'. What could be causing this, and is there a workaround? I'm not…
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Can't get PC to boot from USB to instal Linux
Well two questions really. I'd like to instal Linux alongside my old XP system just go see what it's like. I have downloaded Cinnamon to a USB stick, but despite setting my BIOS options to do so my PC just won't boot from USB. Any ideas what I would be doing wrong? Also, can anyone advise me with partitioning the hard…
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Sky go wont work
just bought a new Acer Aspire ES1-131 ON WINDOWS 10, but no matter what I try, it won't work, Internet explorer just crashes and mozilla is having none of it and sahying silverlight not working. Can anyone help please?
