Computer Help Thread
| mc_blue |
 Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 2:58pm |
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I'm a member of a couple of computer forums and the people are useless, they never help with anything. Thought it might be a good idea to start a general computer help thread. If we've already got one please delete this thread. I'm having a problem with Outlook Express (I've lost many messages). On Outlook Express it prompted me to compact existing messages (I've done this before). The next time the PC loaded (it had frozen and I had to restart) I went into OE and found only some emails there. My whole Sent Items folder is empty. When I go to the Store Folder however the files seem to be there okay. I've tried copying my Store Folder to another location and using that but it still doesn't show my emails. Also I've downloaded OE-Mail Recovery and tried to extract emails from the files to no avail. Message of the story kids - backup any important shit often. |
| nick |
Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 3:05pm |
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Message of the story kids - backup any important shit often. This has been true since computers were invented. |
| mc_blue |
Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 3:25pm |
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And yet I still didn't do it. |
| nick |
Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 3:34pm |
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I have no sympathy for anyone with insufficient backups, especialy considering the price of hard disks these days. |
| Paolo G |
Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 11:48pm |
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I have no sympathy for anyone with insufficient backups, especialy considering the price of hard disks these days.
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| Brad |
Posted: Fri, 01/02/2008 - 12:15am |
 
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harsh techno-fascists |
| JB |
Posted: Fri, 01/02/2008 - 2:34am |
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ive got a pewter question running vista business on my laptop, and updates are set to run weekly i think, there is one particular update which when it trys to install it fails (update is cumulative security update for IE7 vista KB942615) and comes up woth error code 80070002 |
| Larry |
Posted: Fri, 01/02/2008 - 5:12am |
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Buy a mac.
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| stonefish |
Posted: Fri, 01/02/2008 - 9:47am |
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why does my pc keep crashing everytime i try and sync my big ipod (there are a fair few pics and songs coming over from my pc) it gets half way through the sync, and then the computer just reboots |
| JB |
Posted: Fri, 01/02/2008 - 11:27am |
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Buy a mac.
if i could afford one i prob would |
| Brian Damage |
Posted: Fri, 15/02/2008 - 8:28pm |
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Vista on my laptop installs windows updates automatically sometimes, I dont know what they are, but they stop me accessing any sites via explorer. I tried firefox and cant access any sites with that. So I did system restore and that wotrked yesterday, but today, more updates were installed, I dont know what, but I cant access any sites despite doing restore to various times. |
| AAA |
Posted: Fri, 15/02/2008 - 9:01pm |
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Buy a mac.
Where is best to buy a mac from, and how much would you be looking to pay for a standard one for internet/music etc |
| moog |
Posted: Sat, 16/02/2008 - 12:36am |
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Anyone know anything about wireless networks? and them randomly disconnecting then reconnecting? |
| Hello World |
Posted: Sat, 16/02/2008 - 12:45am |
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Anyone know anything about wireless networks? and them randomly disconnecting then reconnecting? co-channel interference on the 2.4GHz band or encryption key dropping. How many SSIDs can you see? any more than 10 your got problems, either move your channel to the top or bottom of the range or stick it on auto Switch off on air encryption and change your router to MAC filtering and put in all the MAC addresses of your wireless access points and computers. On air encryption is a pointless overhead when MAC filtering prevents any external computer not on the list from getting access to you WLAN. |
| Hello World |
Posted: Sat, 16/02/2008 - 12:48am |
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Buy a mac.
Where is best to buy a mac from, and how much would you be looking to pay for a standard one for internet/music etc Education discount from a UNI LAN for maximum discount, if all you need is basic entertainment just get the most basic macbook + external hard disc for extra storage. £700 - discount. Its not cheap. |
| Vazza |
Posted: Sat, 16/02/2008 - 12:50am |
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A Macbook should be sufficient for your needs. It's cheaper to buy from the Apple Higher Education store, plus you get a 3 tear warranty compared to just the standard 1 year if you buy from the Apple store: It's only meant for university students (which I am) but I've never been asked for any ID when I've needed to get my Macbook repaired in the past. |
| Hello World |
Posted: Sat, 16/02/2008 - 12:59am |
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A Macbook should be sufficient for your needs. It's cheaper to buy from the Apple Higher Education store, plus you get a 3 tear warranty compared to just the standard 1 year if you buy from the Apple store: It's only meant for university students (which I am) but I've never been asked for any ID when I've needed to get my Macbook repaired in the past. WIN |
| moog |
Posted: Sat, 16/02/2008 - 1:33am |
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Thanks HW will try the MAC business tomorrow. |
| india |
Posted: Mon, 25/02/2008 - 11:00pm |
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for some reason hardly any sites are working on internet explorer. or if they load up the pictures dont. thanks |
| Mr X |
Posted: Mon, 25/02/2008 - 11:06pm |
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Get mozilla firefox or some thing that's not IE, it has so many bugs in it |
| El Bongo |
Posted: Mon, 25/02/2008 - 11:12pm |
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for some reason hardly any sites are working on internet explorer. or if they load up the pictures dont. thanks |
