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I recently bought an internal door (factory primed) that I thought was solid pine but after taking 18ml off either side with a bench saw, it revealed a chipboard core. Although the raw chipboard is on the hinge side and not really noticeable it is not my way of doing DIY, but the man who was...

Recently, I installed Vista on a separate partition on a laptop, I didn't like it so I removed it. I have XP on another partition It is a genuine Microsoft product but I didn't want to register or activate it to my computer as I want to install it on my grand-sons laptop, and if I have it...

A neighbour of mine bought a Toshiba Satellite laptop approx 8 weeks ago. It was performing as it should but her two year old daughter pulled a couple of keys off, so she contacted the vendor and they said they would repair it. She sent it off and three weeks later it arrived back with a new...

I would be grateful if someone could give me advice regarding a Hoover washer/drier. The machine is two years old and hasn't been flogged to death, it washes and spins and goes through the cycle but there isn't any heat blowing into the drum to dry the clothes. There wasn't any warning or...

I have recently purchased a new PC and I would like to 'manifold' it up to my current machine with a single Flat screen monitor. I do have a KVM cable and I've used it in the past without problems, but the old monitor had a serial connection (no USB), whereas the LCD flat screen has a single...

A long story shortened. I belong to an association for retired Merchant Seafarers and during the years of travel we all made many friends who have been lost through migration and the dissolution of the British merchant fleet. For this reason I have been given the difficult task of creating a...

Just when you need something, it goes POP!! I have a flatbed scanner that up 'til today served me well, but the adapter for it has gone down so it leaves me without a working scanner. I've searched the house for one that will do as a temporary replacement but all I can find that comes near it...

Hi all, I'm thinking of changing my ISP from Wanadoo to Talk Talk. I'm sure many of you are saying "there's nothing to think about. Just do it"! Well I'm a little apprehensive. I don't want to lose contacts that I have built up e.g. eBay, inksuppliers, Bank acc. etc. with Wanadoo, because they...

Hi, I've hit a problem! The unmistakeable sound of something dripping certainly wakes you up from a deep slumber, well it did me! I have a Potterton Puma 80e and it's about 11 years old. I've had good uninterrupted service from it for the past twelve months, but today it has started leaking...

I've hit a problem trying to format a HDD and I hope someone can help me to overcome it. The PC is very old (so is its owner), It had a 1GB HDD, the OS was Windows 98. As expected the hard drive was full to the extent that an additional 3 lines of text would crash the system. I bought a 8.4 Gb...

Hello everyone, I've got a quite a few home VHS videos of family, places of interest etc. and I would like to transfer them to DVD, but I haven't a clue how to go about it. I'm imformed that I need a video capture card but I don't know if I have one installed in my machine (It's getting on for...

Hi, I don't know if there are any Refridgeration Engineers who are involved with this forum, or any Plumbers with enough savvy to give me a clue with a problematic Air Conditioning unit. The unit is a wall mounted cold /hot air blower (Mitsubishi SRK208HENF) When the system runs on cold...

I've just read a news report that Al Zarqawi (The Jordanian beheader) has been wounded in a shoot out with American soldiers. Did he stand and fight to the death like a warrior? No! he slithered into a hospital and begged to have his wounds attended to. The cowardly little snake.

Hi all, Recently, I bought a Gericom 250GB external HDD (the hard drive is a Seagate ST-3250823A Barracuda) from Aldi, and it is formatted in FAT32. My computer's specs are; Windows XP home ed. SP2...NTFS CPU...AMD Athlon 2000+ 768DDRAM 80GB HDD....75% free USB 2.0...4 port host...

How many times have we heard Blair and Brown talk about vast amounts of money being spent in our name. For; wars, white elephant structures, financing the Olympic Games, etc.... Figures with that many zeros that the average person can't decipher, (include me in that group). Well maybe this...

If, like me, you are disgusted with the obscene and vulgar profits of banks. Then you will enjoy reading this. http://www.man1bank0.com/home.cfm I thought I'd post this after reading all the crap about identity theft. ( before somene jumps too quick. Isolated cases, yes! widespread, no!)...

Hello I have a potterton puma 80e, its about 9yrs old and it is giving me problems. The Led (LSP) on the front panel, 3rd light up, was shows red and I cannot not get any hot water or heat. I have read past messages of other Pott owners and i think i've got a fault the same as others who have...