Recent content by Davidcarey

I have been using the same laptop for many years . Now I have a major recent problem in that I am having difficulty playing stored MP4 files . The playback is not good on windowed mode and un-watchable full screen . VLC , MPC worst , media player not great . One anomaly is that in windowed...

I was forced recently to re-install Windows 7 after some problems arose thant I could not fix . The laptop is an Acer Extensa 5620 , rather old now but still functioning . After reinstalling ( this time I changed to 64 bit ) it was working very well . Now it keeps going into sleep mode . ODDLY...

Why are batteries so expensive ? The cost of an Acer battery is about half the value of the whole laptop ( + have to get mail order , no stocks in dealer ) . No motorist in his right mind would spend this much to replace a battery .

I have an Acer 5620 , the battery is dead but it works on mains power just fine . Just been to a shop where we tried 2 batteries . One , the computer registered as having 33% charge, the other 35% and and computer registered charging . Problem is when we pulled the plug , the computer died . Any...