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Windows

No experience

January 27, 2012
No experience

System: Dell Inspiron 531, Athlon 64 Dual Core, Windows 7 Home Premium Q: When I try to run the Windows 7 Experience Index I get the following message: ‘The Windows Experience Index for your system could not be completed. Could not measure storage performance. Error: [...]

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Wireless printing

January 23, 2012
Wireless printing

Q: My daughter who is disabled spends a lot of time in her bedroom and when able uses a desktop Vista PC, however the amount of disability paraphernalia has left no room for a printer. There is an HP 2575 printer downstairs connected to an [...]

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Missing icons

January 10, 2012
Missing icons

System: HP Pavilion t3200, Windows XP Home SP3 Q: I have recently encountered a Windows startup problem following my attempt to reduce the system’s start up time. In Msconfig having de-selected a program in the Startup list and clicked on Selective Startup in the General [...]

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Syncing feeling

December 27, 2011
Syncing feeling

System: Dell Precision T3500, Intel Xeon W3520, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Professional Q: I recently purchased a new Dell PC with Windows 7 Professional and once delivered I started putting my software from my old PC on to the new one. One application I tried [...]

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Sound advice

December 15, 2011
Sound advice

System: Compaq Presario SR1000, Windows XP Home Q: I can’t get any sound out of my computer. The following message comes up when trying to play music, “Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not [...]

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Tars, torrents and tunes

December 5, 2011
Tars, torrents and tunes

Q: I have three questions, firstly I have just downloaded a file entitled: perldoc.tar.gz and would like to know if 7-Zip can open this file. I know Windows 7 64-bit cannot. Second I have friend who downloads books in ePub format and needs uTorrent as well could [...]

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Missing tabs

November 30, 2011
Missing tabs

Q: I have a problem in that the Task Manager only comes up with all the programs that are running and not the other options menus. I suspect that the correction, is probably a registry fix but I don’t know where to look. Any help would [...]

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Always installing

November 25, 2011
Always installing

Q: My partner is running Vista and Home and Student. Every time she starts the laptop, Home and Student insists on configuring and installing the program from scratch. If you cancel the installation, other programs won’t work.  Please help as I’m sure this isn’t right. [...]

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Mon Ami

November 21, 2011
Mon Ami

Q: I have all my past word processor correspondence on CDs  – much originating from 5.25 inch floppies – I have important documents relating to wills, house purchases, etc, many written with WordPerfect and AmiPro, and not all can be found in hard copy. Whilst I can open [...]

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Web pages not loading

November 8, 2011
Web pages not loading

Q: I moved my computer from the floor to an elevated position on the desk. The move necessitated removing and reinstalling all of the connections. When I next attempted to go online, I could not load any pages. I am hooked up through a Linksys router and [...]

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