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CPU cycle

February 7, 2012
CPU cycle

System: Acer Aspire M1640, Intel Core Duo E4700 2.6GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista Home Premium Q: I have noticed in Windows Task Manager that the CPU seems to regularly cycle from 100% down to about 50% and I wondered whether I might need to [...]

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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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No scan do

July 20, 2011
No scan do

System: AMD Athlon XP2400, Windows Vista Ultimate Q: I have an HP 2575 all-in-one printer that worked fine on an XP system. Since upgrading to Vista it would print but the software wouldn’t allow me to scan. HP has issued a software upgrade that is [...]

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Karma Chameleon

March 14, 2011
Karma Chameleon

System: ASUS X58L, Vista Home Premium, Vodafone Mobile Internet Q: I have a problem which I hope you can solve for me. I have had the above computer for just over a year and started getting a problem where I could not connect to the [...]

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Language barrier

February 2, 2010
Language barrier

Q: Last year you solved my problem regarding the keyboard language changing after reinstalling Windows XP. I have now come up with a similar issue after buying a laptop. However, when following your original instructions there is only a single option – English US. The [...]

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Boot load problems

January 14, 2010
Boot load problems

Q: I had Linux installed as a dual boot with Vista. I got rid of the Linux partition and thecomputer was fine and working until I restarted it the next day. I got a GRUB loader Error 22 message and computer wouldn’t do anything. My [...]

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Sound of silence

December 7, 2009
Sound of silence

Q: My problem is that I can play my music in my media player but when I go to web pages like YouTube or Cnet or any web pages that have videos I have no sound, I checked the device manager an the sound devices [...]

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Still updating. . .

October 9, 2009
Still updating. . .

System: Windows Vista Ultimate Q: I recently shut down my PC having downloaded some updates. The next time I rebooted it a message came up saying “Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 0% Do not turn off your PC”. This stayed on screen for about [...]

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Old Windows

September 21, 2009
Old Windows

B: I was having a problem with my laptop and took it to a local PC shop to be fixed. They sorted it out by reinstalling Windows but I’ve noticed now I’ve got it back that there’s a folder called Windows.old on the hard disk. [...]

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Missing space

September 15, 2009
Missing space

Q: In the beginning I made XP recovery discs as you do with a new computer, As it only had a 40GB hard disk. I formatted the partition when the recovery disc info was and used the space for other things, safe in the knowledge that [...]

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