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Mouse back button.

I have a Lenovo Ideapad Laptop with Win 10 installed. I have a Genius Ergo 8800 wireless mouse connected. For some inexplicable reason the back button no longer returns to the previous browser screen,...

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Off site backup

Can any recommend any offsite backup software?We are running 4 x 3TB WD Red drives Raid 10 in HP MicroSever running Windows Storage Server.We are using http://www.altaro.com/ but downside of this is...

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Win10 Photos App

Today I turned on my PC and for some reason the photos app win10 is no longer default(all photos now open in paint) and its not shown in the "use a different app" menu. This is obviously a very...

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Connector problem

I had to change the hard drive because of storage problems, in order to get to it, I had to disconnect this, to my error, could of unscrewed the pcbIt is now causing me intermittent sound problemsHow...

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Computer Brands or Make/Model

HelloI need your help.I'm looking for this PC but I don't know the make and model of it.Will you someone be kind enough to tell me?The link is below. I just need to know the make and model of the white...

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Removing air cooler to re-apply thermal compound?

I inherited an older system & it generally performs pretty well.. after a friend visited recently and ran MSI Afterburner whilst I was gaming he said the cpu was running too hot in his opinion...

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Kilometres v Miles Issue in Google Earth

I'm not sure if this post is entirely relevant for PC Forums, but here goes. . .My query is this: I would like to have the scale of my free edition of Google Earth to include kilometres, as opposed to...

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Hard drive recovery

Just seen this on the good ole youtubePlenty of hard drives that I've trashed in the past, wonder if this is so true though, because I've got other hard drives that have failed as wellBeats putting it...

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Resizing menu bar issues in Windows 8.1

Hi - as the result of what appears to have been the PC equivalent of a 'stroke', all images on the second monitor connected to my laptop - including menu bars in MS Word, Google etc - are now in...

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DVD software

HiHaven't been on here for a while as I haven't had any difficulties until now.Someone at the computer clinic where I volunteer wants to make a slideshow of their photos that plays with music on a DVD,...

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Surround speakers for 4K TV

HiNot really a pc question but more of a sound and speakers question.A friend would like to get surround sound speakers to watch films and possibly play games, he has a 4K TV and a PS3.  I have said to...

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Medium Sized HD Screens?

Because of limited work space, I'm looking for a HD monitor that is under 20". Does such a monitor exist? Many thanks.

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Miracast

Am trying to project my pc onto my tv using miracast the tv is all sorted but my pc says it doesnt support miracast although in dxdiag it says it does!Any ideas?do you think its because i am going...

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problem logging in to email account with correct details

HiI am having a problem with logging into my hotmail account with Thunderbird.  A few days ago it would not log into my hotmail account, so I thought it must be a technical problem with hotmail/outlook...

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Replacement for magicdisk?

Since the last update of windows 10 magicdisk no longer works (use it to mount iso's) and trying to install it again winodws says its not compatible so anyone any suggestions for free software to use...

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RAID 1 question

Since I have a 2 bay NAS drive, both of the disks are not equal in size, I know that RAID 1 will only use 2Tb of the smaller disk (obviously), but if I were to put a 3Tb disk at a later date, and since...

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I supposedly got VDSL fibre yesterday...

Not got it to connect yet. Talktalk sent a router but I want to carry on using my new Netgear D7000. The error message is wrong username or password. Well, I let it use my old ADSL one, failed, then...

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Broken ext hard drive, help!

Hi all,Recently been faced with that most horrid moment of going to plug in my external 1tb hd to find it wont turn on and NO it isn't backed up :(((((( I know, I know, I deserve everything I get. But...

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Xerox 19" Monitor,shuts down within seconds of activating.

Coupled to my pC is my Xerox monitor model XM7-19w,as of this morning no sooner does it come on line then the screen goes black.If I activate on,  it again comes on the quickly goes black? Is there any...

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Keyboard replacement

One of my laptop keyboard is showing signs that it is basically fookedI was looking on amazon and found...

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RAM clock timings

Viewing this video made me find something about the memory I am usingThe BIOS is more or less the sameCPUID said that the current state of my memory is 8-8-8-24, but in the XMP profile it states that...

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ASUS RoG not booting properly

Hello, guys! I'd like to begin by apologising for any mistake I might be making. This is my first post on this forum and I have yet to find something similar with my problem.My laptop, an ASUS ROG...

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Scan and fix external usb harddrive

HiWhen I connected my external usb 3, 2tb harddrive to my computer earlier it came up with the option to scan and fix possible errors or continue.  I clicked continue as I wanted to do a backup as the...

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scart to hdmi cable

HiNot a computer question but still a technical question.A friend has a DVD player which only has a scart connection and they want to connect it to a flat screen TV that according to them has no scart...

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Buying a new harddrive for PS4

HiI am going to buy a new internal 2.5 inch 2tb harddrive for my original standard PS4 in a month or two and I was wondering if there is any features that I should look for in the new harddrive and if...

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corrupted external harddrive

Hey guys, here's the thing - for some reason, my external hard disk that I am using primarily with Mac got corrupted and is no longer readable... by Mac or by Windows.In Mac, I can still see ALL the...

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Page file

These days are there any compelling reasons to move my page file to another drive? I have my OS on an m.2 SATA drive and my data on a 1TB Samsung Evo SSD.

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Free anti-virus program for Vista laptop

HiSomeone at the computer clinic would like a free anti-virus software for their 32 bit vista laptop.  They will be getting a new laptop at some point but they want to keep using their current vista...

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PCIE to SATA III and eSATA CONTROLLER CARD not found

I have installed a new GFX card, and realised that this card is not being recognised by mobo or windows (obviously if it isn't being recognised by mobo uefi, it isn't going to be recognised by...

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PhysX cards

Is this just a secondary graphics card or am I missing something?

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