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Hi, Looking for some information on my Toshiba Z30 laptop, This was working fine till I replaced the screen now the screen flickers for a second at start-up but stays blank, The laptop works fine on the HDMI but only if the laptop screen is disconnected from the motherboard, The screen has been tested on my other z30 and works, Could I have maybe fused something on the motherboard? Thanks
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Hi all I operate windows 8.1 with Google Chrome on an HP Envy23 desktop i have had my Envy all in one for a few years and it's worked pretty well but lately after booting up it sometimes is unresponsive for several minutes then eventually comes back to life. When it is unresponsive I can hear some activity is happening in background. I wonder if there is something I can do to prevent what is becoming annoying?#Thanks for your help. Ray
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Can not figure out what's the problem. On my Mac, I can directly open Windows ISO image but can not open iso file for other kinds like Linux iso. How to fix this?
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Afternoon all, I am trying to do a favour for a relative in accessing some hard-drives of defunct laptops for them. They hope I can recover some old Word documents. There are three hard drives (photos attached) and I believe all are from laptops. Two appear to have the same type of connection, whereas one is slightly different. I am inexperienced with computer hardware issues, and all I am looking to find out is which (if any) of the cheap "SATA to USB adapter" devices available on Amazon will fit all three of these drives so I can access them via my own laptop and look for documents. I mean devices such as the following: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Ex…
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I bought a new laptop in Nov.19 and got free McAfee antivirus with it. I later found out that I needed a firewall provider to accompany it. After spending £180 for a 5 year subscription, I thought that was it. Oh no, I get a phone call 9 months later asking if they can remotely check my system. After 1.5 hours I find out I have 2 years subscription on firewall and 1 year on McKafee. I was charged £130 to install a Windows driver and support assistant. I do have a 45 refund policy according to the invoice. Can anyone tell me if this is common practise? Or am I just overreacting? HP laptop windows 10. Also. What is a driver and support assistant and is it really nec…
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After an update, microsoft solitaire collection is inundated with ads for in app purchases. I am lucky if I can play two consecutive games. How can I disable them??
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I have a Samsung P510 with 4GB Ram and a 2.2GHz processor. There is a 500GB hard disk which is less than half full. I've done everything I can to get the laptop working properly. Someimtes I can just left click everything and it all runs normally but most of the time it's really strugling. I've done all the usual thins like emprtying caches and just about everything else. Nothing seems to work. I have another laptop on order but I don't know when that will come as deliveries seem to be quite delayed at the moment. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have scanned for viruses and malware, restarted, emptied the Ram cache and reallocated some of the memory.
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can someone help me got 12 folders with pictures in and need to put on to cd what software do I need about a 1000 picture's in total
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New and updated install of Windows 10 Pro v2004. Attempts to record using Audacity, RecAll Pro or any other recording app gives an error. The error is mostly to the effect that it 'can't open Wave device for input. Close other programmes using Wave and try again' . Always something else is using Wave. I am not running any other audio devices that could be using the system. The error was there under Win 10 v1904, so it isn't due to a rogue update. External sounds are reaching the system via LineIn or StereoMix and can be heard on the speakers. Apps such as radio streaming players (e.g. Radio Sure), which make their own recording arrangement (presumably) r…
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Hello, I have a HP E272q monitor, and for a few months I've been noticing that there appears to be a central division in the display, with the left hand side showing a degree of transparency that is most noticeable on dark backgrounds. For example if using Autocad with a black background, I can see a "ghosting" of other windows behind (eg like a browser), but only on the left side of the monitor centreline. I'm not sure but this may have only started after upgrading to Win 10. It was originally Win 7. Is this something anyone else has experienced?
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I'm still using Windows 7, mostly because Photoshop won't run on Wine on Linux, and partly because I'm still deciding which new computer to buy. Yesterday I got Windows updates, today when I booted Windows is installing Edge :mad: I'm waiting for it to try to connect then I'll tell my firewall to block it. Can I uninstall Edge or will it keep coming back?
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Many salutations chaps - have not been here seeking your help for many moons - as the world has kept turning together with my electronicary stuff. Now though although all is still well with the Ereafower gizmo's I have a question which troubles me and it's to do with W10 - - well maybe not - but is in a round about sort of way. The story - - - - I first came to these boards seeking help for an ailing Acer and that very nice man KenB set me straight - once fixed it soldiered on for for many a year in wife's hands till finally it's Vista OS started to give up the ghost - and I came back and got it sorted again - it went in the cupboard when I inherited a Dell Inspiron…
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My monitor is about as old as this desk-top, approximately 5/6 years old. It has a mark like the burned edge of a page of paper. It is not overly large, about 1" long (25.4mm for metre chaps/chapesses) and a 1/4" high along the bottom edge of the screen. It is close to where I had an altercation with a mug of coffee earlier this week. It's not in the software (lunchbox) as it prints out the screen perfectly. I can live with it as it is but will it get worse? I have tried restore but it seens it is beyond that. A BTW is I get an 0x80070005 error when I tried restore - malware bytes indicated it was off as well. Jim
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Hi all, I while back I set up my house with one TP-Link TL-WPA4220 kit and an extra two AV600 Powerline range extender units and they were working well but in the last week I have noticed that my (and my wife's) mobile phones won't connect to the wi-fi! we get a message saying there is no network available (or something like that at least). Does anyone know what has happened and if so what I can do to correct it please? I believe that in the powerline utility icon on my desktop it is possible to create new passwords etc but I haven't got a clue how to do that. Actually, I have just opened this icon and there appears to be nothing stored on it regarding my powerli…
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I am trying to put Microsoft Office 16 (64bit) on to my laptop and although I have removed the Click - to -Run component from the file server as explained on Microsoft's support page, I still cannot load Office. I still keep getting the same message that there is a 32bit component on there that must be removed although it is not visible anywhere.
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