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I have a friend who recently bought a new Dell PC (unsure of the exact spec) but it has windows 7 with 4gb Ram and as it is a new machine runs quite well. however Recently she has had issues with the machine randomly freezing. I have witnessed this and …

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Ive been given a friends laptop to look at and suspect it has a virus on it as it is incredibly slow and some applications dont load, google chrome wont launch, windows live mail launches but when you try to send an email the program crashes.. and the laptop itself …

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Hi, My Friend has asked me to build him a PC and given me £500-550 max to spend on it. I have limited experience building PC's having built my own one last year - which touch wood seems to be working just fine. He is mainly looking for speed (wants …

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I have a BT home hub (v.2) which is wireless n, I understand that is faster than b/g standards. however im unsure if it is dual band and if so how to set this up so to get the most out of the connection. Im quite aware that the network …

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Hi friend has just given me his PC to look at as its broken and i mentioned that i had an interest in fixing dead machines. The machine is a fairly new packard bell machine with a 3.06ghz P4 processor. It will not load past the packard bell bios splash …

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Hi ive been given a friends hard drive to recover some data from as his machine recently died! i said id have a look but it seems as though the drive is completely dead. Ive plugged it in as a slave on my machine and it powers up (loudly) and …

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I recently bought a play and charge kit for my xbox 360 control pad and was led to believe that now i could use the USB connection to connect the pad and use it to play games on my PC? however I cant figure out how to do this? im …

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you could always solve all your ie problems by using firefox! by by a superior browser.. not sure if they have a 32 and a 64 but version though!..

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I have a 250gb Mybook which ive had for ages and havent had any problems.. you may have just been unlucky with it? Not really too sure what to suggest as a replacement.. it really depends on whether you need it for portability? otherwise i would probably just put another …

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My pc is keeps playing random sound effects such as camera shutter sound or a drum beat etc etc. ive installed norton 2007 and it says im infected with w32.dss.trojan! i have no idea how to get rid of this.. but from what ive read this is a nasty one …

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I keep getting this annoying pop up box appear whenever am browsing the web.. its only been happening since i installed the software for my sony ericson phone.. it pops up and wont load any web pages until you click cancel... it defaults to o2 mobile web 3G. I am …

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recently noticed my pc running not quite as quickly as it should be and wondered if there is any nasties lurking which are impacting on system performance. below is a hijack this log .. would appreciate your thoughts.. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 18:00:53, on 09/06/2008 …

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ive recently been given a friends computer to "fix" because it is ridden with spyware and viruses to the point where windows wont even load. I have managaed to fix this (doing a repair install as there are several user accounts all of whom have data which they dont want …

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well im more of a console gamer but i do like: unreal tournament 3 the orange box: portal/team fortress Call of duty 4 Counter strike source Battefield/battelfield 2 loving my old school ROMS on PC at the moment too you cant beat the original mario games. for the console though …

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Hi I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent showing in BIOS... the wierd thing is their both present …

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you'll probably find that the open source programmes are better than the ones used commercially anyway.. i work in IT Support and the system we use (peregrine) has so many problems we need a separate support team to support it lol

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i must admit vista is slower tan i thought it would be... just built a new machine with a core duo 3ghz 2Gb Ram and a Gerforce 8800 gfx card... it runs fine with aero but its still not as quick as i was expecting havent had too many driver …

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Hi I wonder if any one can help me? my machine recently died. Basically when i power on the machine the fan starts (there is no post - but there doesn't appear to be any speaker or connection for it to do so - this is another issue which is …

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i had exactly the same problem.. also with really slow internet! and it drove me crazy, but i changed the wireless channel on the router and for some reason it just started working.

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well ive had a similar problem see thread([url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread90225.html)-[/url] from what ive been advised.. swap testing all the components is the best way.. i.e taking something out trying it until you can narrow it down to one particular piece of hardware or you ahve stripped it down to the barebones (motherboard …

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Hi I am failry enw to web deisgn and want to build an online portfolio, kinda like an online C.V for my self to show prospectiove employers. Im looking for some tutorials to help get me started in using CSS/ HTML if possible in Macromedia 8 Suite and wondered if …

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Hi guys... I'm not sure if I'm just being stupid here.. but i'm looking to buy some RAM, i have found the one i want but it appears to be different on two different websites... the first one i found was [url]http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR2/DDR2+800+%28PC6400%29/Corsair+2GB+PC2-6400+C4+XMS2+%282x1GB%29+?productId=27958[/url] - Go to Aria.co.uk and its quickcode #27958 …

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indeed.. i take it your PC died as a result of this then? i must admit it is something I've done in the past without thinking but never caused any fireballs so far lol ill take your advice though in future. dust is just so annoying!

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you actually dont need the Http:// - you can just put [url]www.google.co.uk[/url] or even just google.co.uk and it should work. Also i'd reccomend using mozilla firefox.. its a much better browser! you can get it [URL="http://www.mozilla.org/"]here[/URL]!

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