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Can my UK xbox360 play US bought games?
Hi folks, I was just looking at the US amazon site and looked through the US xbox 360 titles. Some of them were around 50 dollars thats 30quid plus say a few pounds for postage. Seems a little cheaper but (a) will they work and (b) how much customs tax will I have to pay??? May not be worth my while, I dunno ... I just…
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Clean PC (nothing on but OS) but with 100% CPU usage, hardware problem?
Argh… after getting rid of a virus of my computer I was happy. I uninstalled Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet security and the virus went along with them, but not long after that my computer started perform really badly, like I could tell that it wasn’t 100% how it should be. It would be okay if I wasn't doing…
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Microsoft Office - legal way to keep costs down?
A friend is planning to buy an Apple Mac and has been told by a (wholly legitimate) supplier of Mac software that if they buy a full copy of Entourage (the email program) and an upgrade for Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) Entourage can be installed onto the computer BEFORE installing Office and that Office is an…
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best mp3 player under £50
baisically, what it says on the tin, i am after the best mp3 player i can find for under £50, i would like it to have an lcd screen, but other than that i don't care. Any recomendations please, oh and if i can get it through rpoints that would be even better. Thanks
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Does DVI monitor input make alot of difference?
Folks :- I would like a nice 17" or even 19" LCD monitor and reclaim my desk. I have got £100 worth of capital bonds vouchers (https://www.capitalbonds.co.uk) that are earmarked to partly pay for this. These are redemmable in assorted high street shops including Comet, Argos and Miller Brothers. Unfortunately the selection…
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How to register on a search engine?
Hi, i was just wondering, if i was to make a website, how would i register on a search engine so that people can find it in google or whatever. Thanks very much for your help!
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what does adptif55.exe mean??
Hi, i have a few problems with my pc, im runing a p4 with windows xp pro, every time i start the computer i have an error message saying it can not open adptiff55.exe and it will close, also when i shut down the computer i have internet sweeper can not close, end now?, which i do, drives me mad, any ideas?? cheers mike
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PC problems
This PC is very old(5 yo) I am in safe mode at the mo don't know what that is but the only way I can get on the Net to ask you about this. everytime I try to connect I get server can't be found. I rang ntl she put me in safe mode and said It could be a firewall problem, I have pervx, ewido and AVG. should I uninstall them…
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Will XBox360 bought in Germany work in Canada?
My employer is using them as prizes for a giveaway and has ordered 3 today from ebay, but the seller is in Germany, will the XBoxes work in Canada or will we need to get some kind of adaptor? Thanks!
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Do mac computers get less viruses than
pcs? my dad is thinking of getting a mac as he says that they dont get any viruses. is this definitely the case? how easy is it to use a mac? thanking you in advance.
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Help with wedding film discs (file formats)
Hello....a friend filmed our wedding semi-recently and gave us 5 mini dvd discs which play on pc or dvd player. I want to put the contents of each disc on the pc hard drive so they are easily watchable on the pc but I'm struggling.. If I explore a disk it contains a folder in which there are around 7 files all with strange…
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Scanners
Can anyone help me to get a driver for my friend who is not online.It is for a driver for a HP Scanjet 2100c scanner.If possible i would like to download to a floppy disk so it can be installed on her computer which has Windows ME . Thank You
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PC for Under 700.00 - any ideas?
Hi All :confused: This is my first post, so please don't get to upset if I have posted this in the wrong place! I have just had news that I will be getting a bit of a bonus this year and would like to put half of it towards a new computer! (and the other half into my savings account!) I have about 700.00 pounds to spend -…
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Help with this forum
Hi, don't know if I am imagining this, but when I used to open the chat forum, the posts I hadn't looked at before were in bold. Now some are in bold, but others I havn't looked at are normal. I'm sure it used to take to the page I was last looking at as well but it doesn't do that now. eg the pigsback post has 58 pages on…
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Web Cam
If using a voice activated web cam to speak to relatives in Australia will this cost anymore than my usual monthly subscription to AOL. :beer:
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Spellchecker for this Forum?
How can I spellcheck my postings on the MSE Forum - my typing is so awful, and I am slightly dyslexic, too...drives me crazy when I only notice the errors after submitting :mad:
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Can't right Click & paste?!?!?!
help please!!! I can right click on mouse and copy .... but it will not give me an option to paste!?!? Can anyone explain it please?
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Trustworthy websites
This forum is great for listing free software that can be trusted. A gap is a list of trustworthy websites - either for free downloads or for recommendations. A list of suggested trustworthy sites can be found here: http://www.help2go.com/article244.html Summary of suggested sites from below: www.download.com…
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Wireless Networking
Hi, How safe is wireless networking? I have 2 pcs wireless. One laptop one a pc. I have disabled the SSID, I have mac filtering in place, I have a hardware firewall built into the Router, I have up to date anti virus, and software firewall. Am Using WPA-PSK encryption 63 charaters; SPybot; Adaware, spywareblaster, etc etc.…
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itunes - please can u help - can't get into itunes program
Can't seem to be able to get into the itunes program from on my desktop. Just keep getting a message that says : "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Then it offers me the option to send or not send an error report to Microsoft. So far, I have sent the report & not sent…