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I have a Toshiban Equium A80 laptop where the DVD burner has expired (not software problem) - not having much experience on laptops, is it practcal to try a drive replacement rather than lugging an external drive around (ie is it easy to remove and replace)? The drive in question is a mat****a...

Have purchased 2nd hand phone off ebay - was o2 but is unlocked. Tried to use my old orange card but it would not allow me to use photo messaging. Got new orange sim card but still having problem getting photo messaging to work, even after downloading orange's on-line help. Can anyone give...

just had to share this with you - down at loacl branch of PC world last night, bought a couple of bits & bobs then went to pay.... All the computers & electronic tills were down (dont know if it was national or wot) so they had to resort to the old way of taking credit card details (the old...

Not quite sure what is happening here. I have a large chunk of digital video that I have captured onto my desktop via Pinacle (v9) and every time I edit it and it looks good on the screen - whenever I try to burn it to DVD the video begins to lag behind the audio (and gets progresively worse)...

Daughter No.2 has managed to snap the centre pin in the dc jack-in plug on her lappie (using it in bed and too much tension on the power lead, methinks). I have no probs in stripping down desktops etc, but have steered clear of opening up lappies, but as the quote was £250 to fix it looks...

I have been using v9 for a wee while, editing digital video and also stills slideshows, but has anyone using this programme tried installing individual pictures into a video? Im sure you can but just wondered if anyone has tried it, and is it effective before I start a new project?

The laptop i purchased last year came with the standard 3 months Norton Internet Security cover - when it expired I just renewed for a year's cover on line. Problem is I may need to reformat due to some programe problems, and you've guessed it, I have lost the order numer details. I am...

The neighbours 'puter had to be reformatted due to ongoing problems - when I reinstalled everything I loaded the SP2 disc and then set it for auto updates. The problem is the followung 2 updates will not load, Malicious software removal (KB3890830) and GDI (KB873374). Have checked the...

My daughters 'puter has Norton 2006 installed, and it keeps comming up with the following message: Programme Alert High Risk jsbig.exe (c:\windows\) is attempting to access internet. It classes this as a high alert, and every time I block it, it comes up again in a few minutes trying to...

wife wanted me to take some tracks off her mp3 to put as backing music onto a video disc i made of her holidays to New Zealand. The pinnacle programme I usually use will not recognise the tracks when i download them. When I looked at the properties of each track, it is in WMA format - any...

My friend tried switching on his lappie last week and only got as far as this on his boot-up: F1 Bios set up F12 To choose temp boot device Whether he presses either buton or leaves it, it then comes up with: ERROR 0271 check date and time settings then opens up with an icon...

Went to a concert the other week, and bought a double DVD set. Decided to make a back-up, but after I inserted the original into my dual layer burner, it asked for a dual layer disc - which I did not have any. After purchasing a pack on Friday, I again tried to copy the disk, but it will now...

A PF trubute band, called Australian Pink Floyd are currently touring UK - any of you been to see them. I have heard they are VERY good, and want to take my daughter to see them to make up for me having to go to a 'System of a Down' concert coming up in Manchester (me poor ears !!!!)

On 7th Feb, all speeds will be doubled at no extra cost. Silver from 256 kbps up to 512 kbps Gold from 512 kbps up to 1 Mbps Platinum from 1 Mbps up to 2 Mbps Contrary to all the whinging, I'll be quite happy clocking along at 1 Mbps for £19.99 per month, advertising or no advertising. :)

Whilst no expert, I have built a few PC's for friend and family from scratch (with more than a little help from the guys on this forum). My problem is with my daughter's Toshiba Equium A60. As it only has 256 Mb memory loaded, and with all the Toshiba crap and stuff she has installed, it is...

Will be looking for a new headset for daughter No.2's 'puter shortly, is there any performance benefits to going for one of the new USB sets as opposed to the normal plug into soundcard type (bearing in mind once its plugged in, it stays put)? I know the benefits to ANY headset is that the...

My comany, quite rightly are a wee bit concerned that we don't get any viruses etc on our new Panasonic Toughbooks, but one of the things I would like to do is use it to send technical digital pics back to Head Office without having to use my own PC. Probably a silly question, but would it be...

My daughter's Toshiba P4 2.8GHz laptop (A60, I think) seems to be performing ok, but I noticed that if it has a number of programmes running it boots up to 100% CPU usage, then even after shutting down all progs it still runs at max usage (until reboot). Is there anyway to rectify this...

The wifes new MP3 player demands that I have to do some serious ripping to fill it. The concept of filling a playlist and downloading to MP3 is pretty straightforward, but I noticed an annoying habit with some 'double' CD's that she has. When inserting the 2nd Cd of a double album or box...

I have a 512 Mb flash drive which I have used to transfer some files between various computers that have no 3.5" floppie drives. There is one file (or at least the icon) which refuses to budge when I try to delete all files (even when I try it on the original computer that the file came from)...