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Malwarebytes

Can someone give me the link to install Malwarebytes please? I uninstalled it to put on microsoft essentials and would like to put it back but I keep getting Major Geeks??? Is this O.K, it looks a bit...

Mr-H

VHS to DVD

I have purchased Roxio easy (!) VHS to DVD transfer program in order to hopefully do just that. However, VHS player I have does not have phono connectors, just scart. I have scart/phono connectors,...

nomadandy

Windows 7

Can anyone recomend a book to help me navigate around windows 7 / office 7, have used books by Angelar Bassent (learning to pass ECDL and Clait) when using 2000 and XP, her books had exorcises and...

philg

Home Network Attached Storage

I'm looking to buy a NAS to simplify sharing of files between mine and my wifes pc Currently the Iomega Storecenter IX2 (http://go.iomega.com/en/products/network-sto...

Hettster

Does size matter?

Generally speaking which is physically smaller a netbook or a notebook? I have looked on wiki and other places via the interweb and I am no closer to finding an answer . . . . . can you help?

regulo

FAO: ChuckFickens, MarkRae.

Hi, Chaps, I posed a question here last Friday which you both answered (with OldGeezer) re: hard drive cloning. You will be delighted to hear that I successfully located, downloaded, and used...

jenniepaul

sound

just aquired a second hand PC. Windows XP. everything is fine regarding email and web browsing. but I cannot get any sound from the PC. When I try to play a CD I get message...windows media player...

alexanderd

help needed re e-mails

I can log on to the internet no problem but when I try to access e-mails it wont let me. Keeps saying "wrong e-mail adress or password" re-entered them still the same. Any help much...

mikey4444

Kindle ?

Can anybody give me an idiots guide to Kindle ? I am not sure how books appear on it. Am I right in thinking that you have to pay for all the books, and they only come from Amazon ? Or can you get...

funkylad20

Merging from Excel to Outlook - email Message

I am wanting to send an email to a list of people I have stored in Excel. I understand how to mail merge, but I cannot seem to enter a 'merge field' in the subject line of each email. To simplyfy and...

wickedtart

Hard Drive needs backing up

hi, i have recently had problems with fb and now when i restart my pc it is saying i need to back up my hard drive an it needs replacing, i have never had this happen before, and it is not an old...

moonraker558

VideoReDo

Does anyone use VidReDo, I have just purchased a version but when I tried to go onto the forum a pop up appeared saying I was banned and that the ban will never be lifted, which is fair enough except...

kia cat

browsing pics stored on pc

there's probably a simple answer to this, but I came across a series of folders [while looking for album info on iTunes]. Basically they're all the stuff I've looked at on the net. I've tried bringing...

chakka35

How am I misusing Clipboard?

In Microsoft Word I often use COPY/CUT and PASTE but only for one item at a a time. I've noticed that my Word manual says that Clipboard can hold up to 12 items. But whenever I COPY a second item it...

ruthie

Threats to laptop

I have had several threat attempts blocked by Norton today. The title of the threat was USER-TOSH. Has anyone any idea what this is? Apparently, according to Norton, it is a high risk one. Should I do...

scotman

Max RAM in Motherboard

Hi All Somewhere in here I saw a thread about putting adding more RAM than the nominal maximum. Is there any way to know if this is possible other than trying it? According to system analysis software...

Jemisa

Keyboards (PC)

I too was having a lot of trouble seeing my keyboard, the letters fading and being quite small too. I thought of those peel-off stickers to improve things, went on line and the real computer stick ons...

koiman

validating identity (wi fi status)

Folowing a freezing issue I have just done a recovery of my HP laptop, its all gone ok but it wont conect to my wifi, it finds the router but hangs with a message stating "validating...

vink

how to view laptop on TV

I want to view my laptop on the TV via a HDMI cable and as far as I can see all I need to do is join them together with the HDMI cable but when I do the laptop is not visable!!! is there something...