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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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I recently bought a new laptop with windows vista home edition (64bit). Ever since I have not been able to go online and check my work email (which is done by logging in to an employee portal site).When I do that Iexplorer crashes and I get the following message: [B]Microsoft …

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Hi, My 500 Giga WD MyBook HD is dead and I'm looking for a dependable replacement. Since this failure happened with a year use, I am prone to look for a more dependable option? Should I prefer an internal HD and an enclosure? If so, suggestions and warnings are highly …

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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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What are the most annoying things people around you do? One of my pet peeves: Some "know it all" old timer treats you like a little kid, just because you are young and he/she is not too bright.

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[B][COLOR="Green"]Do you play any games regularly? Tell us what games you like to play, or if you like a bit of everything, what types of games you like. What I Like: Genres: First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, Some RPG's. Particluar Games: ut2004, quakes (I, II, III, IIIA) (oo quake …

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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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I am, head of the IT department of a non-profit organization with around 75 employees. Our services are growing rapidly and we are in need of a helpdesk software which would not need customization to suit our needs. The reason being we don't wish to hire analysts or buy servers. …

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Hi I bought a new laptop back in febuary with the vista ultimate installed, i needed a good laptop to run programs such as cad as well as a few games when im home :), was asured this laptop was the best at the time would run everything i needed …

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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've seen some people have the similar problem with me.But mine is a little bit different from them. I have the "local access only"problem too.But that only happened after I download something larger than 30MB.Actually it happened after I received more than 30MB data from the internet. I've tried disabling …

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Last night my computer was working fine, and I shut it down properly. The next morning I hit the power button and get no response. So after checking connections and all the simple stuff, I open the computer up. I removed the powersupply, and tested it by only pluggin it …

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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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Hello all, I had an experience I'd like to share, I was checking by pc's temperature and found it very high, concluding I needed to do some clean up maintenance, I took out my trusty air duster and sprayed it on the components, when I sprayed my processor I caused …

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i read last night about someone having a problem with finding their home page after updating of msn. i had the same problem. i called talktalk and they told me to go into internet options. there you can change the home page, which was showing msn. they told me to …

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