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Buying advice

June 22, 2012
Buying advice

Q: I don’t know whether you have had any queries about the purchasing of new laptops. I was asked by a friend last week to go with her to advise her on which laptop would be suitable for her. We went to Curry’s to see [...]

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Mail viewing

June 14, 2012
Mail viewing

Q: I recently upgraded to a Windows 7 machine and installed IE 9, which was unavailable to my old Windows XP OS. Although my emails are listed, I cannot access them with a click unless I turn on the Compatibility view. I get messages saying [...]

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Word sizes

April 16, 2012
Word sizes

System: Windows 7 64-bit Q: This is a general question pertaining to any PC. I often use registry tweaks as suggested in your wonderful magazine. My new laptop is running 64 bit Windows 7. Often your advice to make a tweak involves creating a new [...]

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Old install

March 29, 2012
Old install

Q: I have a PC that had XP Home on it. Because my hard drive got corrupted I had to replace the hard drive and re-install XP. I have installed XP from disc and added the motherboard drivers but for some reason I cannot download [...]

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Transferring iTunes

February 29, 2012
Transferring iTunes

System: Dell Inspiron 1525 Q: I want to purchase a new desktop computer, however I’m worried about my iTunes stored on my old laptop. Once before, I tried to transfer iTunes from one PC to another by copying it to an external drive then copying it to my [...]

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Linux rescue

February 15, 2012
Linux rescue

System: Dell Inspiron Mini 1011, Windows 7 Starter Edition Q: I installed Ubuntu 10.10 alongside Windows 7 through a download. Though it ran OK it wouldn’t enable the Wi-Fi network. Hence I could not browse the Net using Linux. I tried several people and searched [...]

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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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