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Swapped hard disk fails to work

One for the techys! I have two Dell Desktops and decided to cannibalise them to make one reasonably good spec machine. I took the large hard drive out of the lower spec machine and swapped it for the...
14:10 Sun 07th Feb 20104 answers, last by webdude 14:43 Sun 07th Feb 2010
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Ford Focus wheel bearings

I bought a 2004 used Focus LX TD DI last November and have been very pleased with my purchase. About 3 weeks ago I became aware of a regular speed related binding noise from the rear, and my local...
09:53 Sat 03rd Oct 20091 answer, last by webbo3 10:21 Sat 03rd Oct 2009
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Mobile phone problem

Hi AB'rs I have a Samsung C300 and when I save new contact numbers I am confused by the options! I know that the basic options are to save a number to the SIM card, or to the phone's internal memory,...
17:08 Sun 13th Sep 20091 answer, last by paintpowder1 12:44 Sun 20th Sep 2009
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Google Chrome and AB display problems

Is it just me, or is the AB website not displaying correctly in Google Chrome? The questions sprawl across the whole width of the page outside the bounding box....
17:19 Wed 09th Sep 20095 answers, last by ChuckFickens 18:58 Sat 12th Sep 2009
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Closing PayPal accounts

I have had a PayPal account for a number of years, and have two email identities to manage my account. Like most of us, I have changed email address and ISPs a few times, and I no longer have the...
14:11 Mon 31st Aug 20091 answer, last by Rollo 14:14 Mon 31st Aug 2009
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Signing up to Virgin non-cable broadband

Has anyone else had problems in switching to Virgin non-cable broadband? I have spent the last two evenings trying to transfer from Orange (who have just raised their prices) to Virgin. I've been on...
21:13 Thu 06th Aug 20095 answers, last by webdude 09:05 Sun 09th Aug 2009
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Avoiding LCD screen burn using ITV Player

Connecting my laptop to my LCD TV allows me to watch missed programmes. When using ITV Player, I am unable to get rid of the white elapsed time bar at the bottom of the screen. As LCD TV manuals warn...
10:05 Sat 25th Jul 2009
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Samsung C300 Speaker Phone feature

Can anyone please tell me how to enable the speaker phone / handsfree feature on this phone. I've seen reviews about this, and read the useless piece of paper which passes for a manual, but cannot...
08:44 Sat 27th Jun 20092 answers, last by webdude 12:17 Sat 27th Jun 2009
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Transfering a SIM card

My wife no longer wants her current mobile phone. Can I simply transfer the SIM card from my phone to her phone, we are both Orange PAYG customers? Presumably I need to contact Orange and ask then to...
11:45 Sun 17th May 20092 answers, last by webdude 12:04 Sun 17th May 2009
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Best free CD DVD burning software

Hi all, What in the opinion of fellow AB's is the best free software for burning CD / DVDs ?
16:01 Fri 27th Mar 20097 answers, last by smith134 11:22 Wed 08th Apr 2009
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Music downloads

Does anyone on AB use Lime Wire for music download, and if so can you tell me if it is safe to use i.e. from a virus point of view, and what are the other drawbacks of using P2P networks?
09:11 Sat 31st Jan 20095 answers, last by Ethel 10:01 Sat 31st Jan 2009
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How busy would this route be

I am going to Bromsgrove via Bridgnorth and Kidderminster on Tuesaday evening around 6:00pm - can anyone tell me what the traffic wiil be like at that time please?
14:52 Sun 09th Nov 20082 answers, last by webdude 18:11 Mon 10th Nov 2008
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Finalising video DVDs

I recently recorded the replays of Life on Mars to DVD, but when I came to finalise the disk it responded with a message saying there were errors on the disk and couldn't finalise. So - I've now got...
17:32 Sat 01st Nov 20084 answers, last by webdude 06:29 Mon 22nd Dec 2008
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Service pack 3

I see Microsoft were busy pushing down the updates for service pack 3 yesterday. We have a couple of desktop PCs, both of which took the update ok, but my Toshiba Portege Tablet machine absolutley...
10:22 Wed 01st Oct 20085 answers, last by joggerjayne 14:27 Wed 01st Oct 2008
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Life on Mars

Having missed the original screening, I saw that it was being repeated on BBC4 recently. I managed to record the first four epsiodes, but then last Monday, and again tonight - Nothing! I thought there...
19:21 Mon 22nd Sep 20087 answers, last by CSIambleside 14:18 Tue 30th Sep 2008
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Problems with PayPal

I recently bought an item off the net, and paid using my debit card. To cut a long story short, the goods arrived but were wholly unfit for purpose, and I therefore returned them to the supplier. The...
15:52 Wed 16th Jul 20083 answers, last by lajohn 18:21 Wed 16th Jul 2008
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Problems accessing archive CDs

If I bring home a CD containing archive copies of personal files from work, I always have problems in accessing the disk on my PC. After inserting the CD, the drive appears to be indexing files, and...
14:56 Sat 21st Jun 20086 answers, last by webdude 07:38 Mon 23rd Jun 2008
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Thunderbird not sending mail

For the past couple of days, some of my outgoing emails from Thunderbird fail to send. A warning message is displayed which says; error, content rejected and then a string of characters. Any fellow...
17:46 Thu 19th Jun 2008
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Restoring disk image to a larger partition

I have added a second hard drive to my PC, and have successfully transferred all my data files to the new D drive. I now want to amalgamate the two partitions on the original C drive into a single...
12:16 Sun 01st Jun 20085 answers, last by ACtheTROLL 13:29 Mon 02nd Jun 2008
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Broadband providers

I've been with Orange for almost 12 months and am looking to move to another provider. Looking at the various BB packages, Tiscali appears to be a good deal currently as they include the BT line...
18:01 Wed 16th Apr 200810 answers, last by webdude 10:27 Thu 24th Apr 2008

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