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    55" TV - £1k budget - Recommendations

    You can still find the Samsung KS7500 about, its the same as the 7000, but its curved. I also looked for a KS7000, but none are available, so I grabbed a KS7500, the curve does not bother me and the picture is unbelievable. Got he 55 inch for £900 the other weekend. This years MU range is not...
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    Found a really neat little windows 10 program

    Looks good, will give it a try Quite a few times the built in windows one will not allow you to "eject at this time" Thanks
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    Random Robocopy query

    I have had this before It happens because you are coping a folder on the root of a drive after your robocopy line in your script add attrib B:\Test -h -s This will will unhide the folder after the copy
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    Recent new build showing this in Memtest

    it is not normal to have any memtest errors Generally it will be the stick of RAM that is faulty Are you overclocking, or using non default RAM voltages? if so set all to stock and test again Try moving the RAM to another slot (if you have more than one stick, just have the one running...
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    CPU fan size question

    Fan sizes are total dimensions, so a 40mm is 40mm x 40mm side to side (of the entire fan casing) The big problem with fans is the smaller the fan, the faster it has to spin and will create a higher pitch sound, so swapping a 40 or 50mm for the same size will still be quite noisy Could you...
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    HDMI splitting

    another vote for the neet Neet® - 2 Way HDMI SPLITTER BOX 1x2 Port (1 input 2 output) I have one splitting for a TV (2m cable) and projector (12m cable), just plug it in and it works, it's about £25
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    good youtube downloader

    http://www.freemake.com just paste the youtube url into the app, and select the device that you want to play it back on, downloads and converts all in one go, can queue videos too also allows you to convert any video format to any video format, very easy to use oh, and it's free
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    Printing over netween between windows 7 64 bit and XP

    on the host pc, make a note of the full share path ie \\pc\printshare on the client pc, install the printer as a local printer. When it asks the port, select standard port and put in the UNC path from above ie \\pc\printshare. Then install the drivers if needed I find this way the client...
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    Disable https warnings

    for firefox, go to the self signed site, view the certificate and install it, that should stop any subsequent warnings
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    microsoft foundation edition server...?

    yeah, it works just like server 2008 R2, same interface. You can only use it for 15 clients though
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    Moving Pics and music from a PC to an Apple Mac

    Just had to do this for myself the first time this morning Just use a external hdd (formatted to fat32) and copy between them using that As mentioned it's just a different interface either side Only problem is fat32 will give you a 2Gb file limit though
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    Wanted: EASY ALL videoconverter

    Sorry to jump in, but I have just tried this myself after you recommended it, it's fantastic, was using handbrake before with some success, but this is so much better, Thanks
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    Virtual Communities Survey

    done
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    Outlook constantly asking for password

    I've had this problem many times with the exact software you are running you need to service pack exchange 2007 to SP2 but, as it's SBS, you need to use a special installer, download both, and run the installer, then point it to the SP2 installer Exchange 2007 SP2 SBS 2008 SP2 installer
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    Virgin Media new next generation TV service

    would love to be in a cabled area, I still have my original 10year old TiVo running with its own sky digibox next to a sky HD box. I would switch to the new virgin TiVo in a second if I could get the service No one understood Tivo 10 years ago, and it failed in the UK, the TiVo v1 is still...
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    Best method for bulk copying on multiple USB drives?

    This will work perfectly, but will only copy 1 drive at a time, if you have each line as a separate script you can copy to them all at once. Also the excellent ejectmedia (www.uwe-sieber.de) will allow you to script the removal of the devices at the end so each drive letter would have a...
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    PCI Wireless Card & Built in Wireless on Laptop

    first, have you checked on the routers status page, the speed that the router is synced at? second, trying both the laptop and the desktop using a cat5 cable directly to the router, this will eliminate any problems with your wifi cards (disable the wifi card in device manager while doing this...
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    Win7 , why is it so slooooooooow ?

    As the problem is not evident in safe mode use msconfig, unselect all startup items, then try that. If the problem is fixed, one of those items must be the culprit. Enable one item, reboot and test again until you find the problem
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    Printer cuts off bottom of text sometimes?

    try printing a page of black text from word. does the problem happen, next recolour the text so it's all blue/red, any colour you want, does that fix the problem, if it does it a problem with the black cartridge/head
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    £300 or £400 to spend on a few bits

    How much existing DDR2 mem has he got, if he has enough you could use a AM2+ board with the existing DDR2 mem and then stulid's 1st suggestion would be on budget
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