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Copying CD's

Am I dim or what, How do you copy cd's or dvd's onto a portable hardrive? All of my media goes through windows and is saved there but I can't seem to move anything over to the external drive.

Jessi-9

Anti Virus HELP???

Hi there I bought a Dell laptop last year, along with NORTON Anti Virus. I have had no problems, so can only assume its done its job. Its now due for renewal but they want £70 for 12 months...

T&S

PC External Hard Drive and Mac

I have an external HDD with my PC with my Music/Photos etc backed up. Can I connect the HDD to my MAcBook and copy the files over? TIA...

DosAmigos

CD Burning Software that will run on Windows 95

I look after an ageing legacy system that will only run on Windows 95. I have installed an ageing CDRW Drive that Widows 95 recognises (hoorah!). Does anyone know where I can download some CD Burning...

alzheimer

OpenOffice pps presentations have no sound!

Why do SOME of the Open Office pps presentations that are sent to me have no sound - when the sender clearly tells me that they should have!!!! Many are just fine - but is there something I should be...

nohorn

Flashdrive

My daughter gave me a flashdrive to store or backup files/photos. It is a small black thing. I don't have the instructions that came with it. I was wondering, can I put it in my purce besides my cell...

spotit3

Laptop not starting up

My Dell Studio laptop is refusing to start up. It gets to where the words Microsoft Corporation appear on the screen with a rectangular box above it with the little green bar moving across it which...

TrudyTrudy

Faint horizontal lines (& top slice of icons repeated) at bottom of screen

For a period of time I have noticed faint horizontal lines across the bottom of my laptop screen. I now realise that what is flashing at the bottom of my screen is what I can see at the top 1/8 inch...

lindylou16

Copy and paste on one page?

Hello Can i copy different sections of a document and paste them into Word at one paste,, Or must i paste after each time i copy? Thnx...

ericthemini

Touch screen help

I have bought a secondhand touch screen to build a touchscreen jukebox with, and I was wondering rather than have a heavy and bulky PC power it, could I use a lap top and just plug the touch screen in...

daginge

Any comments on Homeplugs ABers?

Goos evening fellow ABers, any of you got experience of the "Homeplugs" that utilise your home's wiring system as an ethernet cable? As usual TIA, all answers / comments gratefully received!

karenmac60

NOISY LAPTOP

My laptop has just started making the most awful racket. I think it's the fan, but I've taken the keyboard off and cleaned a huge wad of fluff out from around it and it's not made a jot of difference....

carlton23

Avatar Querie

I have just Googled `Avatars` and have found an Avatar other than my own good looks,ahem, and would like to know, in very simple terms, (for other users less in the wonderful knowledge of computers...

askyourgran

My lap top keeps freezing.........

For the past two days it seems to be 'busy' I can only imagine it is updating while I'm trying to use it, the light is flickering on the edge of the keyboard as I type. Then the screen goes hazy and...

divegirl

Pc not keeping up!

Hi, in the last few days my keyboard and mouse seem out of sync with my monitor. As an example, I type a line of writing and there is a delay before it appears on the screen. Also if a spell check box...

Nottm_George

DVD RW

A friend of mine as a LITE-ON DVDRW Model -832S SOHW it says on the front of it that it should be able to write to dvdrw but when he tries it just comes up with error, he write to cd r ok and it will...

oscarina

Shoppers Reports . How Do I get rid of this

Shoppers Reports has appeared on the left side of computer, can't remember downloading this, how do I get rid of it. I have went to Control Panel to uninstall but it doesn't appear there. Thanks

snowyball

BLUE SCREEN

hiya hope someone can help, or explain this error report i keep rreceiving on my laptop. i get it after installing windows updates: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version:...

joddington

What does it mean?

Hi, I have Norton installed [have had it renewed each year for 4 years] I've never had this before, but a message keeps coming onto my screen now and then from Norton saying 'HIGH DISK USAGE BY...