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Hi I am unable to complete an installation of an Officejet 6000 inkjet printer on a home network Dell 690 workstation running . Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit workstation. The printer had been previously connected to a Windows XP Pro 32 bit OS Dell PC. The HP CD wouldn't install …

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DEll PC Windows 10 Outlook 2007 One user has no items listed in the Sent folder. This incident happened after the local eletric supply blacked us out three times a couple of days ago. The user was in Outlook 2007 and was about to send an email. The email is …

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Hi I would like to display photos on my website so that they are regularly changed. For example every day, or once a week a different photo is displayed. when each photo has been displayed the sequence is repeated. Geoff

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Hi I thought this was easy. I want to copy a spreadsheet in a workbook to a new spreadsheet in the same workbook preserving links. So as the source worksheet received new entries the copied spreadsheet would be updated. My reason being that I would introduce some variation in the …

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**MPT BIOS fault** Hi I Cannot boot my Dell 690. The message I get is: "Unable to load LSI Logic Corp MPT BIOS MPT BIOS fault 03h encountered at adapter PCI (05h, 0Bh, 00h). No boot device available. Stike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. I get a …

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Hi I am trying to salvage user data from a hard drive that was installed in a Dell laptop. I have plugged it in to a Dell 490 workstation running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit using a USB connection kit - leads and power supply. First I used Chkdsk, it …

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I suppose one important reason why XP refuses to die is that users only upgrade when they buy a new PC. There are a lot of users in the World, if not the USA, that are grateful to have a PC.

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Hi I have decided to update my PC to Windows 7 64 bit. My existing PC has a lot of programs and data that needs to be preserved. I have read that with Vista Business an inplace install can be made but wonder if that is correct. If not I'll …

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Hi I am trying to provide access to a folder of photos. The website is Unix based so I can change permissions. I am using WISE-FTP 8 as my FTP program. I created a directory on the server and intend to upload about 40 photos to it. I uploaded one …

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Hi I am not getting any response from the Cutenews forum. So perhaps Daniweb experts can help me. I have a couple of websites that have a Cutenews version 1.4.6 search form working. For my latest website I decided to use cutenews 2.0.2. As far as possible I have made …

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Hi I have a Raid 1 setup which had two drives a 250GB and a 500GB. I have replaced the 250GB drive (which had not failed) with a 500GB drive. The Raid now shows just a 250GB. What do I have to do to make use of the 500GB? The …

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Hi I have been trying to get a google map on one of my websites. In the past I had no trouble. But now having forgotten what I did I googled the topic and found an explanation that required adding javascript to the head section and a div with map-canvas …

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Hi I have an Epson R2400 A3 printer new but not connected as I am still reorgansing my cottage. I have a gigbit network connected by an 8 port switch on the ground floor. I have a CAT 6 connection to a PC on the 1st floor and want to …

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Hi My website works OK in IE9, Safari, Opera and Chrome but Firefox objects to my Contacts page. The contact form position is wrong and the navigation does not work for the Contacts page. The other pages work ok. Both HTML and CSS validate ok[Click Here](http://www.pcwebsite.org.uk)

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Just replying to item 3. The Dell disk can be used in any make of PC. That's what sellers say on eBay. You could buy a used Optiplex with XP for not much more than buying XP on its own or a Dell workstation a 490 for about 120GBP.

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Hi for some reason I am not receiving notifications of new posts to watched items. What do I need to check? Geoff

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Hi It seems that my video files are not working or are distorted (loss of aspect ratio or width) when viewed in Firefox and also Safari (who want to charge for a plugin). Chrome under XP Pro only shows about a quarter of the video but the right scale and …

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Hi, I am trying to get Outlook 2007 to work on one account. At present three users have email accounts. Two are working properly. One is not. The not working account opens and then goes into a Not Responding state. It worked earlier in the day. The computer is a …

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Hi I am trying to resolve an issue with Word 2007 not opening a document. I get this message: "There was a problem sending the command to the program". The OS is Windows 7 Pro running on a Dell 490. I have tried running in safe mode and deleting the …

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Hi My daughter is stuck trying to set up a POP3 email on a Macbook Air. It just wants to link to an Exchange account, which of course it doesn't find.

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Hi I have a Dell 690 workstation fitted with two quad core E5320 processors. I have had trouble with this PC possibly due it being damaged in delivery - it weighs 30 or so Kg. Perhaps I should have returned it :( Too late now. After using it and updating …

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Hi I have a home network of three computers running Windows 7. One is running Windows 7 Professional and the other two Windows 7 Ultimate. I also have two more desktops running XP Pro :) and a laptop running XP Pro. The network is wired, laptop wireless. I am trying …

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Hi I would like to make more use of the browser developer tools. However, there is little documentation that I can find. I am sure that someone must have written a simple guide to error checking using these tools. I suppose there is no market for a book. Foyles bookshop …

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Hi After having a problem or two with CSS based web pages I have made I find that the problems are too be resolved when the absolute positioning is removed. Well that is what has been suggested. Since in some cases I have used code from other web sites. Web …

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Hi It seems I have tried everything to get this CSS styled web page to produce what I could have done easily using a simple table layout :( I have the footer occupying the bottom of the outer wrapper but the trouble is I cannot get the outer wrapper to …

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Hi I have a Frontpage 2002 website running since early 2008. There are over 60 pages. Some CSS has been used and PHP includes, for the page footer, for example. I am using Expression Web 2 as my editor. A lot of the code, although working, is highlighted as being …

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Hi There is hardly a problem with adding a new hard drive to a desktop computer but how should one update the hard drive on which the operating system is installed? Hard drives fail, I have experienced only one over a period of twenty years and that was replaced under …

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Hi I have a similar query in that one of my memory slots has a broken retaining clip (which is not repairable, I think). I have a Dell 690 with two banks of memory (8 slots). Bank 1 has two 2GB sticks and two 1GB sticks. Bank 2 has the …

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Hi I have an Antec Easy Sata hotswop hardrive caddy. I have been using it with two hard drives. It seems that I need to restart Windows (version 7 running on a Dell 490 workstation) to get a replaced drive to be recognized. What seems to happen is th name …

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Hi took ages to access the message field. Still my problem is my pictures are fine having full contrast and colour. My videos are aweful. They are washed out - lacking in both colour and contrast. I am running XP Pro and also have another PC running XP pro which …

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Hi I have, almost in a panic, realised that I have some hard drives that need to be replaced as they are 6 years old. Although I have had no issues with them I thought replace them before they fail. It still seems a shame that a working hard drive …

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Hi I have set up a RAID 1 and want to move my data to the RAID and leave applications and the operating system on the non raid drive. I just copied My Documents to the RAID and did a backup before deleting My Documents from the non raid disk. …

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Hi Although my PC detects my disc drives and can play from them when I try to write to the RW drive I get a message "No disc detected". I am using Roxio Creator LE Dell Edition. I have cleaned the laser carefully using methylated spirits and a surgically clean …

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Hi I am designing my first musicians website and need to find out what media player or players I can install on the website so that visitors can hear the musician's music and also vidoes. Long Tail video's JW payers seem like a solution but I don't anything about these. …

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Hi I do not know whether Outook, in this case 2007 running under Vista Home Premium, is the cause of this message. Email has worked, but now displays a Enter Network Password pop up. I would like to know whether this is a Microsoft Windows issue or one due to …

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Hi I have two desktops one has Office 2003 and the other my "graphics and video PC" has Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. Both use XP Pro. I can't use Adobe Acrobat as MS Word is installed on my other PC. There are a few other issues, that lead …

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Hi I am using Lytebox v3.22 and I am trying to find a way to add a link on the popup. At present the link only appears on the thumbs page and is only dimly visible when a popup image is selected. I am using document.write. Although clicking on any …

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Hi I have been trying to remove what appeared to be a bottom border on an image. I am using Lytebox. Adding a bottom border resulted in the existing "border" being pushed down below the new border. So then I looked for a bottom margin. I didn't find one that …

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Hi Most people want to disable bullets! I can't see mine. If I disable my CSS external stylesheet I see the bullets, and as a consequence disable my horizontal list used to create navigation for my website! I thought that assigning a class to the real list that is part …

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Hi Whilst I have checked both the HTML and CSS for errors and have found none I have an issue with rendering using IE8 and IE7. IE9 is fine as are the other browsers. When I click on the navbar, the display loses all styling and displays for a second …

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Hi I want to style a horizontal navigation bar so that the current tab, in this case linking to a different webpage is selected, highlighted. I thought that Focus would work but that only works for keyboard navigation. Update: [I] found this, but not during my intial search but in …

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[QUOTE=cscgal;1642911]Hi cscgal, Do we really get a significant number of bumped threads considering how many pageviews and new posts & threads we get daily as a whole? Is the ratio really much more than on other forums?[/QUOTE] Well how do you know that would be posters are deterred? The site …

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I received an email that complained about Google's response based on a change in evaluating websites. Daniweb is a very large site and in my opinion is not easy to negotiate. I tend to burn the midnight oil tackling problems that I have rather than seek help on a forum …

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Hi I have a number of problems trying to sort out a home network of two desktops one running Vista Home Premium another running XP Pro. There are also three laptops: two running XP Pro and one running Windows 7 64bit. All five PCs can access the Internet this is …

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Hi I am using the PHP include statement to enable publication of a piece of news. The news is filed as "news.txt" and the user has access to a directory to upload the file or delete old news but no access to the code. If the file does not exist …

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Hi I have a Dell Precision workstation 490 and increased the initial one GB ram (two 512MB sticks) to five by adding two 2GB sticks after I upgraded the op system to Windows 7 Pro 64bit and I have installed the most recent BIOS. There was no problem, the system …

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Hi I have a client who wants to provide me with Microsoft Publisher documents to add to his website. The material will be added via a content management system. I can't just select all and paste into the CMS so I have saved a copy of the Publisher document as …

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Hi I have several PCs and want to connect them on a home network. It makes sense to upgrade to a gigbit system. The trouble is how far may I locate a pc from the keyboard, mouse, and display?

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Hi I have managed to establish that my Dell laptop 6400 does not have a problem with generating display data. Connecting an external monitor provides a perfect picture. There is data going to the LCD screen but it is very dark. A web search suggests that I replace the inverter. …

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