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  • dawsey2k9
    dawsey2k9 Posts: 6 Forumite
    Pc Means 'personal Computer' :t
  • Phlip_corter
    Phlip_corter Posts: 57 Forumite
    maninblack wrote: »
    MP4 is a video compression technology.
    Divx is based around it.

    maninblack
    I am too agree with your statments MP4 is a video compression technology.it's new virgin of MP3 audio compression techies.
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  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    Phlip_corter wrote: »
    I am too agree with your statments MP4 is a video compression technology.it's new virgin of MP3 audio compression techies.

    I think it may help if you made yourself clearer. I didn't understand your grammar at all.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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  • Dustykitten
    Dustykitten Posts: 16,507 Forumite
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    Please can somebody tell me what a registry key with reference to infected file is - I guess it is not good news - thanks
    The birds of sadness may fly overhead but don't let them nest in your hair
  • bearing
    bearing Posts: 73 Forumite
    Dustykitten wrote: »
    Please can somebody tell me what a registry key with reference to infected file is - I guess it is not good news - thanks

    A bit technical to explain but you may want to have a look here
  • GooWorld
    GooWorld Posts: 14 Forumite
    thanks seems highly expensive to me, but guess its all new techno stuff hopefully I can find another cheaper way
  • helnel
    helnel Posts: 17 Forumite
    I need to buy a new internal hard drive for my laptop, and I keep seeing things like IDE, ATA, SATA, PATA. Can someone tell me what these mean and what the difference is - and is there anything else to look out for?
  • tomsutton529
    tomsutton529 Posts: 210 Forumite
    helnel wrote: »
    I need to buy a new internal hard drive for my laptop, and I keep seeing things like IDE, ATA, SATA, PATA. Can someone tell me what these mean and what the difference is - and is there anything else to look out for?

    the differnce is the interface for the conector betweent he drive and the motherboard. a SATA drive will not work on and IDE motherboard etc.

    IDE and ATA PATA are the same sort of thing.

    SATA is a newer faster type of interface.

    to tell the differnce (in general) open the PC and if there is a wide grey cable from the Hard drive to the Motherboard then its going to be IDE, thin round cable means SATA.

    IDE:

    p-IDE.jpg


    SATA

    SATA-Signal-Cable-1.jpg
  • *Vikki*
    *Vikki* Posts: 1,303 Forumite
    How do I change my username? I need to change it.
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    *Vikki* wrote: »
    How do I change my username? I need to change it.
    Which username?
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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