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Is it only me who finds it a bit weird that you want to make your friends pay for your help?! Do you make them pay if they want your help painting a room or moving house? Surely if it's amongst friends a box of beers or something would suffice?

It depends on what she wants to do with it. You need to give more detail to get useful, relevant responses. Browsing the net, occasional letter writing etc., more than good enough. Video editing and gaming, not good enough.

Thanks a lot Cracker, that guide will be really useful. Where do you think the cable will most likely be loose: on the motherboard connection or the connection to the webcam board? I imagined the latter, hence why I was thinking about removing the screen surround. Cheers, Doug.

Hi (and happy new year) all. I have an Acer Aspire One AO531h with Windows XP. The built-in webcam is not working. The problem seems to have developed from a previous issue, which was if the screen was opened too far it would stop working, with the sound of a USB device being disconnected...

Do you need 8GB of RAM? If you do nothing that requires that amount of RAM then use whichever you prefer, even if that means 'wasting' 4GB of RAM. Knowing what you do with your computer/programs do you use will help people give you advice.

The graphics card does not render in terms of producing images for publishing (i.e. exported tiffs etc.). The CPU does that. If your wife regularly creates high quality renderings then a multi-core CPU will be an advantage as the program can break the image down into quarters say and give each...

Why? Unless you are creating assemblies with 100,000's parts, no. Look at specs below. Why? CAD programs do not require a super powerful graphics card, as the link below clearly shows. By the very nature of the linear boolean operations the have to happen one after another, there for...

Have you tried using it on mains power but without the battery attached? I'm not sure if this will help narrow down the problem but it may be a work around for now.... Doug.

Amount: 300MB ish Provider: Three Signal: 3G / HSPA Cost: £20 a month for unlimited data and as good as unlimited texts / calls Phone: HTC Wildfire Damn! Thats expensive in the US! I would have thought it would be cheaper than in the UK....

Are you using a cordless keyboard? My Logitech keyboard does crazy stuff like that when the batteries are just about to die, random keys not working.... Try changing the batteries perhaps? Doug.

OK, I'll give Mint a shot. Is there any benefit in using the "lightweight LXDE desktop" over the GNOME version in terms of performance/battery life? Thanks, Doug.

I have tried XP and Ubuntu on my netbook. I like the look and feel of Ubuntu, but with XP I get a hour to hour and half more battery (5hrs compared with 3.5~4hrs). Whilst XP does everything I need, I find it looks/feels outdated now. Both operating systems run smoothly on my netbook, which is...

CAD packages do not need a high performance video card. When talking about commercial software there is a huge difference between what is 'supported' and what is required for use. I used to run (when I was at uni) Unigraphics NX7.5 and SolidWorks 2010 using my integrated graphics (HD4200)...

No, but I'm not sure what model it was I was using. I was just referring to various UltraSharp monitors around the office.

That will happen with PowerPoint too. I had this exact problem at an exhibition just last week, this is what I did: You will need to start your secondary monitor slideshow first, open it as normal and select "Presenter Mode" to have the show running on the second monitor. Then open the second...

I used an UltraSharp at work and the picture was amazing, noticeably different than other monitors. Having said that I have no experience with the HP. I do a lot of CAD work, and generally find that the bigger the screen the better/easier it is to work. Hope that helps, Doug.

What email services do you have? Hotmail, gmail etc. can all be set up to forward any emails coming into the inbox to another account. You have to remember though, to reply from the original address it was sent to you have to go to that email box! Try googling your mail provider and...

Amazon.co.uk as well. And they do Nectar points as well, so if your gonna be buying a systems worth of parts they'll add up! When I built my computer ebuyer was cheapest for everything (was about year and a half ago now though). Doug.

Think you got conned mate! I get a free HTC, 5000 texts, 3000 mins and unlimited internet for £20 for 18 months.

Hi. I recently purchased a second hand card and have just installed it in my computer. First I uninstalled the Catalyst Control Center from my integrated graphics, and installed the card (XFX HD5770). When I first booted it started up fine, the screen resolution was rubbish as I hadn't...