Recent content by steve_loir

I use RAR Frog but there are many others. http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Compression-Tools/Free-RAR-Extract-Frog.shtml

Buy a Blu-Ray drive to replace your DVD drive. Or buy a USB Blu-Ray player or writer. http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3703958/Lacie-d2-External-Blu-ray-Drive-USB-2-0-Firewire-/Product.html

What program do you use to play DVDs?

You need to have a DVD drive that can write to dual layer DVD discs. Find your DVD drive model and Google for its specifications.

How was the DVD recorded? If the disk was not finalised in the machine that burnt the disk you will not be able to view it.

It is possible that Amazon would honour the warranty, you could ask them. Samsung themselves will honour their warranty in any country. But it may be complicated getting repair or replacement done. Watch out for the mains voltage on the power supply. It is 110/120 in the US and 230/240 in the...

Either the DVD drive has died or there is a problem with the connection, as the other answer says. The eject button just means there is power to the motor that does the eject. It doesn't mean it can talk to the computer.

It depends on how you did the video burn. You probably set it to finalise the disk so you cannot burn any more onto it.

Use System Restore. You will find it in Help & Support. It will put your computer back to the state it was on the date you select.

On some routers you can put in times that Internet access is blocked. The other option is to unplug the router when he is meant to be asleep, assuming it isn't in his room.

You haven't said how you have connected the laptop and the desktop. You can connect both to a router either with cables or wirelessly. The router can supply both computers with an IP address. Or you can connect the two together with a cross-over Ethernet cable. But you will have to manually...

You haven't said how you have connected the laptop and the desktop. You can connect both to a router either with cables or wirelessly. The router can supply both computers with an IP address. Or you can connect the two together with a cross-over Ethernet cable. But you will have to manually...

Firefox is probably not set up properly. If IE works then Firefox should. Don't know why you can't download Flash. Any error message?

I am sorry but the most stuff on the Internet is porn. Fact or fiction? I wouldn't want to know!

Most VHS films have copy protection on them so you can't record onto DVD. You can buy special filters that take out the copy protection but all the ones I have tried have made the recording really bad, lines and fuzzy!