computers

I was given an iPad as a retirement present. One problem I have with it is I cannot connect a Samsung mobile phone to it via Bluetooth in order to transfer photos. Can anyone offer advice and assistance?

Whilst on this site I have received messages saying that a private message has been posted to me, I have managed to retrieve the message but how do I reply to it, please help.

Hi all, could anyone out there explain how you upload/download, whatever is the tech speak, a photograph, text or whatever on to the web. please keep it simple as I am a comparative novice with this Bill Gates's infernal machine, (also known as a computer I believe),:confused::confused: Many...

Microsoft officially end all support for XP from the end of April (some say from early April) I urge those who use XP to stop using it asap.XP will soon be a hackers playground. I know there are a few people that use it and dont know of this info so thought it would be worth sharing.

I'm having crap wi me e-mail as wynonie can verify, Whats happening is i am getting me usual rubbish e-mails daily,yet a lass is trying to send me n e-mail using the correct addy yet it won't come, its definitely correct, cos me mate wynonie tried to send me one this afternoon, n i know hes got...

i am writing this using a laptop because my desktop PC (Win 7) has developed a problem. I can't get beyond the windows password screen because it doesn't recognise it. I have checked that caps lock is off. I have used a spare keyboard - no success. I have explored 'Help' and know about...

Have just got an android 4.2 tablet and can't get skype to load. Have tried downloading from various apps including the android version from skype. Can't even get the echo test to work - it keeps going back to the contacts list. Attempts to video call the tablet from laptop just gives the skype...

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but, my desktop computer has been knocked from its shelf, height of about 1ft or so, and following the fall it went to the blue screen, message on it stated 'configuring setup', it was switched off after seeming 'stuck' on this screen. Now it isn't...

Does anyone use Plusnet (despite them being based in Yorkshire)? What's your opinion? I've just been through an online chat with them - I've been assured my neighbour can move from BT at his current house and keep his number (same exchange). Has anyone ever had problems with this? He asked...

Does anyone know if there's a computer shop in the area that sells these (they are "old tech")? PC World doesn't have them. Need to get an IRDa to USB adapter to connect an old phone to my computer - someone I know has some video they can't get off an old phone whose manufacturer is no...

I suspect that the graphics card in my LT has failed. Started to get occasional flickering of the display and now there is no display at all – completely dead screen. I can hear the HD run on start up and if I insert a disc I can hear that run and the indicator lights flash as usual. Can anyone...

I have recently bought a second-hand laptop off a friend of mine, 1st mistake I know!!! It worked properly for a few days but now it keeps coming up with the same message "Windows detected a hard disk problem" Anyone any ideas how to get this sorted out. The laptop is a HPG62 Notebook. Any...

Although the touchpad works initially when i'm logging onto my laptop it wont work when I'm logged in and I have to use the mouse

For the 3rd time this month I've gone out for a couple of hours and left this computer switched on, then when I get home & try to get on Accy Web, Face Book, Blackburn 247 or the Great War Forum, I cannot access the sites until I have signed in and entered my pass words again. It doesn't happen...

I have an ASUS netbook that I use for travelling light. When I power it up after a couple or so days the internal clock has lost exactly 5 hours? It puzzles me why exactly 5 hours something is obviously resetting the clock but I am at a loss as to what and why. Any suggestions and cure from the...

We have only got MS 2010 Office Starter on our laptops. I have used MS Office 2007 since then - only for Word, now I can't find my CD so cannot load it onto the LTs - no doubt got lost during our moves. Lots of historical documentation that I can't open without going through the trouble of...

Can any member of Accyweb recommend a good laptop repair centre in Accy. My laptop keeps updating bios on startup.

Why does mylaptop on stratup keep saying it is doing a bios update? What canI do about it?

BT rang me to say I can now go on Infinity. Is it worth the £6 a month extra? I have a Dell PC which was top of the range but that was in 2004- it must be totally obsolete by now but does what I need. However upload/download sometime seems to go on a go slow. Also they say I need 1GB of Ram-...

Hi ive got a Mikomi 1.3Mp Laptop Webcam picture of it here... and can not find the drivers for it anywhere. P.s im on windows VISTA. any help. ? http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/mi/mikomi-1-3mp-laptop-webcam.jpg