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wireless upstairs in my bedroom (no Ethernet cable available ). ^Folks, I'd love your help if possible. atm my BT router is downstairs in my lounge but in my bedroom i have my wireless laptop but the connection is slower (compared to the machines downstairs) . My Q is : if I buy a wireless...

wireless upstairs in my bedroom (no Ethernet cable available ). ^Folks, I'd love your help if possible. atm my BT router is downstairs in my lounge but in my bedroom i have my wireless laptop but the connection is slower (compared to the machines downstairs) . My Q is : if I buy a wireless...

Hello, could u folks here please recommend a freeware VPN - something tried and trusted? I need it to work in the UK and with online banking etc for safety when using wi-fi from a public hotspot. Thank u everyone, as always.

Hi, can anyone suggest to me what would be the best and most reliable media for creating recovery discs for W7? This is assuming that I have a dual layer dvd writer installed, yes (which is quite common in new laptops?). What would be best? For example: CDR CDRW DVD-RAM DVD-R DVD-R As...

Hi, can someone tell me if the Apple TC is compatible with Windows 7? Anything I need to be aware of? Thanks.

Hi all. My friend has been given a Win XP laptop (which he will eventually have to pay for if it works) but when you press the keys, absolutely nothing happens. I am pretty certain that this would indeed be a hardware issue but does anyone know what to look for if I open the laptop up (unscrew)...

A colleague of mine is going to Dubai and wondered whether there would be any issues with using his wireless xp laptop abroad. Obviously, he would be given the wep key etc. - that is not the issue. But are there any potential (technical) problems here? Thanks. (And yes, I do mean a normal wi-fi...

I believe MS are officially saying 1GB minimum. But what would you folks here recommend. Also, what's the cut off point where any additional RAM becomes superfluous? 4GB?? Thanks as always [smile]

Hi, a friend's PC has been corrupted. He has no issues doing a reinstall of XP but he wishes not to lose his data. Can someone remind me of the correct option to choose before I go ahead and tell him. Is it: Boot from the xp cd and go past the recovery console to the install menu. Select repair...

Is this still possible using a laptop, as I do not have a dedicated numeric keyboard (as it's a laptop!). What am I doing wrong. I am holding down the Alt key and then punching in 0169 (as an example, copyright symbol) and then releasing the Alt key. But nothing happens.

Can someone just clear something up for me, once and for all. I am often told that you often pay a premium if you want a STATIC IP address. And yet when I have always used a site such as below to view my IP, it is always STATIC (the same), and that's with three separate ISPs over several yrs (I...

Hi folks, I read recently that MS has released Security Essentials as a replacement for OneCare, and that it's free (any caveats?). I just wanted people's opinions on the software. Does it do a decent job; is it fairly light on resources. Also, when I googled it, on Microsoft's site I get a...

Hi, need your help folks. I am using version 8.1. It always used to save (remember) my login name. I don't just mean in between sessions, but actually after a new session (a reboot of the laptop etc.). Not sure if it's a coincidence, but I think this happened after I used the excellent ccleaner...

Please bear with me on this one. It's good practice (maybe even Good English??) to emphasize and deemphasize uppercase/lowercase in titles. Does anyone know what this is called (where the unimportant words are lowercase)?? Examples: The Village of the Damned. (NOT The Village Of The Damned)...

As in: 'From hereonin I will not be attending your class...'. Is it 'hereonin' (as one word) OR 'here on in' as three separate words. Thanks.

Can someone please tell me what the memory (Ram) cap is for Vista. Is it 3 or 4 Gigs? I've been reading increasingly a couple of reviews of laptops/Pcs in which the author(s) say something akin to: 'Vista only sees 3GB Ram...but we feel the manufacturer could easily have added another Gig for...

Which is it and in what context? Is there indeed a difference between especially and specially? Thanks all :-)

Hi again. On most new desktops, two cd-rom drives are provided for disc-to-disc copying. However, ordinarily on a laptop you only get one cd-rom/rewriter. So therefore disc-to-disc is not possible. Yes, I know one can copy the entire contents of a cdrom onto the hardrive and then subsequently...

Folks, I really need your help. I have a Fujitsu HandyDrive and it has worked beautifully on my laptop without any problems. Last week I needed to install SP2 on my laptop (I only had SP1 installed prior to this). I have no idea if this is a coincidence but XP just keeps insisting on running the...

Hi, bear with me on this one. Can anyone tell me whether there is indeed a Service Pack 3 for XP? (I have Service Pack 2 installed). If there IS a SP3, in a nutshell what does it seek to resolve? The reason I ask is because SP2 sought to address some major issues, such as WPA wireless, Firewall...