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Hi, I use a dell laptop for work, and use a wired connection with dhcp at my desk, but I am a network support engineer and use my laptop when faultfinding network issues all over the sites that I look after. Which means I constantly am disconnecting from a wired connection, and automatically...

Hi, I had an upgrade forced onto me by windows 10, and after my pc wouldn't even boot. Lost all my desktop, all my files. Luckily my really important stuff was backed up on an external hard disk, but had to get help from Microsoft just to get a working pc back. None of the rollbacks would...

Hi, I have an old version of microsoft office, which was working fine until the 1st of december. Then windows decided to force an upgrade on me, and by the time it was too late, my outlook stopped working and reports an error. "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Outlook...

I have a Lenovo Laptop running windows 10, and I wanted to record a stream of music from the internet. However when I opened up a sound recorder program, it will only record from microphone. Having read several items on this, it seems it's not the software from the program, but the ability of...

hi, I wondered if any of your experts out there would be able to help me. I recently tried to download a workshop manual from what I thought was a legitimate site, only to find out it infected my PC. And now, although I know which files they are, I cant uninstall, or access them to delete or...

Hi, I have an early Samsung Galaxy, and have always had problems with memory and running apps. It's annoying because I have a huge 32gb sd card, but barely anything runs on it. I have looked into the application settings and only a handful of apps, like Fbook and ebay, are stored on the sd card...

Just bought a wi fi receiver with the intent of replacing an old hi fi, and replacing with an amp connected to a wi fi receiver the wirelessly play music from my tablet. I have followed he instructions but I cant get it to work. It is a 'Veetop' device. My amp and speakers play music from my...

Hi getting a little frustrated, when accessing the internet, using google chrome, my pc takes forever to load a web page. And if I move on to another page from m homepage, it just hangs altogether. I do notice that lots of things are happening in the status bar, and I suspect this is where the...

I have a desktop running xp, and have an edup wi fi dongle which was connecting fine, but now isn't. It sees my network as an available network, but when it tries to connect, there is no IP address from the router. I have been on the router and can see no connection attempt or request for IP...

Hi People, is there any way I can monitor or test why my laptop keeps crashing. It is quite old in today's ever advancing technology but still current in a lot of ways. specifics Windows Vista intel celeron C900 I have looked for administrative tools in control panel, loads of events but too...

hi, my wife's laptop is stuck in a loop after trying to stop rubbish updates slowing her pc down. Everything was ok and this was successful, everything was running smoothly, then wen the pc was switched on this morning it says, almost immediately after switching on, 'Failure configuring windows...

Tried several cd's.. want to load a game from a cd, but disk drive goes through a lot of clicking, as if it is reading, but after about a minute, ejects the cd and asks for a cd to be loaded. chrissib

hi this is the first and only laptop I have had with Windows Vista and although most things work ok, there are a few annoying aspects which I cant seem to resolve as I have with other versions of Windows... 1. it doesn't save any login details, even though I check the 'password remember' option...

hi, got a couple of problems which you experts may be able to help me with. 1. every hyperlink in IE tries to open with Microsoft Office, and instead of an expected web page, I get a page attempted formatted Word document 2. Outlook keeps asking for a my password, even though I set it to...

Hi, got a problem which I suspect is a virus or virus related. Started a few days ago, Avg kept detecting and protecting something, but then stopped protecting and just kept popping up at regular intervals. I ran a Avg scan, but it reported nothing. As Avg was playing up, tried to reload it...

Hi, I have a workshop manual downloaded, but its in Italian, and I want to translate it to English. I have tried Google, and several programs on general internet searches, and nothing seems to work. Google reports a size problem, but doesn't tell you what to do about it. There is a free online...

I have a 2TB external drive, which has stopped working. I think this is because my laptop PSU (19v) was plugged in to the drive. When I checked the voltage output of the drive PSU, it was only 12v. Could this have damaged the drive, and is there anything I can do to recover the data? Any...