Forum: Net & Tech

Ok, so this isn't me btw! My mother has her laptop at home and today bought a game for it. Egames Galaxy of Games Family Silver Edition. She played one game, it was fine. Loaded a second game and heard a 'whistling' (I thought this might of been the start of the ingame sounds having frozen?) and computer turned off. She's got this message (worded as closely as I can to what she said very...

What is the best current freeware Virtual Driver software around ? Thanks

Hi all Just got a new, never been used k608i phone off my mate today. I've got it unlocked and I've put my old Virgin PAYG sim in it. It's not happening though, it always says there's no network access available, but if I put my SIM in my old phone then it works fine. Already manually changed the network preferences in the new phone, but it only ever shows the Virgin reception very rarely....

Anyone else having problems getting into Yahoo Mail or is it just me. Its so annoying, i really need the info from an email and it just wont work :banghead: :thumb:

I've found one for £169 from hmv with a promotional code..can anyone do any better?

Set up a router and network at my friends today , I need to open control panel > Administrative tools > local security policy Shows up on his pc but not the laptop secpol.msc in run command doesnt work either any ideas? EDIT:

Anyone got it ? I've got a tech problem with my copy :(

my computer is apprently riddled with all manner of manky spyware. and ive spent all frigging day trying to download something to get rid of it. but everything i seem to get scans your computer for free, then demands a payment/subscription to actually delete the buggers. which frankly aint happening. please recommend me a free and good program i can download that will protect my computer and...

Anyone know of a place that lets you create (ad) free surveys? I don't have any hosting at the moment so cannot host one myself.

I'm gonna buy a Laptop for work rather than build a PC, although the build option will still go a head but at a later date. Now, I have a lot of stuff on my SATA disk and need to transfer over to the laptop, any idea how I could do this?

I didn't use my laptop over the weekend and when i came back on it i'd got 2 emails from paypal only i doubt they were real. The addresses were kauffmann and shinobu@verison something. I've never used paypal and i've had a weird address that doesn't work in my history come up. Have i been hacked and what can i do?

Is it only me who cant access there email? I have really important emails to attend to!

Where can I get an 0845 number? I have been looking but I am not sure who are legit and who are not.

I was going to put this on earlier, but i was hoping for Jim to reply to my PM. But he aint So click Here

just a quick question I added my new account on thursday, and have been checking my online bank account for the 2 small deposits but so far no luck, this is a pain as there a few things I would like to bid on. So... does anyone have any idea generally how long they take to make the deposits?

I'm taking out contents insurance soon & want to include my computer on it but I'm not sure how much it's worth. My sister bought it brand new out of a catalogue & paid a whopping £900 for it! (Rip off, as it stated that it's a gaming computer but has a crappy graphics card). The specs are as follows: iQon S651MPR2 Intel Celeron 2.68 Ghz 224 Mb Ram 71.2 Gb

Hey I just found a security whole in firefox. I went to a website where it tried to download a .pif file (I already knew it was a virus as I was checking it out for a friend) and my download manager came up. Said no. Went back to the webpage and for some reason??? It downloaded the file automatically. Luckily my antivirus caught it. But firefox isn't as secure as we might like to think. It...

Stacey MADE me create a Live Journal. I have no friends. Sobb. If anyone wants to add me please do. My username is err_rachael. Not used to this LJ thing so hope that works!!!

http://wii.justlikeed.net/europe/ So... far... away! :D

Ok, I have a document in Microsoft Publisher format that I want to turn into a PDF file. What software do i need to do this and how do i do it? I have adobe on my PC but have no idea where to begin - I'm not very good with computers!

Because there are random twats who go round and crack your account. I'm an idiot. But why would someone do something like that? They said someone had put them up to it, so maybe someone hates me. Who knows. It's just a bit idiotic really, what's the need? change all my other passwords as they all email to that address. I can't even rememebr all of them.

Im getting this error when i check my Hotmail Through Windows Live Mail Beta

Hey, My housemate was recently having some problems with her computer which then told her that she needed to do some updates, which she accepted. One of these updates was to do with IE 7. The current programme doesn't look anything like the internet explorer that i'm used to, and when you open the IE link it takes you to this site: http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx and tells you to...