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Thread ID: 118278	2011-05-27 08:38:00	Acer laptop, vista with a half gig of ram	Tbird650 (6754)	Press F1

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1205095	2011-05-28 02:14:00	Even the trial versions of Office have a product key and require activation. The machine would have come with a CD and\or key for Office. If it is a trial you could of course try OpenOffice instead, that's what I use now. Be careful of disabling too many things though, some may do things like manage hotkeys or other such 'useful' features. For example my Toshiba must have at least 3 certain programs running for all the features like that to work. As for the speakers it could be anything, bad hardware or even a software issue. Have you tried updating the drivers? Is there a manual volume control for them? Or a hotkey to disable them? Or even, (stupidly enough) a program that must be running for them to work?	Agent_24 (57)
1205096	2011-05-28 06:37:00	You're basically wasting your time until you chuck another gig or two of ram in. As for the speakers, i'd squirt a little bit of contact cleaner in the headphone port and put a headphone plug in and out 10-20 times see if that fixes it.	Alex B (15479)
1205097	2011-05-28 13:19:00	24. Have updated the driver. There's no manual volume control that I can find nor any mention in the manual. There is a hotkey fn+f8 but it mutes the sound and places a red bar over the sound icon at the same time. Re a program necessary for inbuilt speakers to work... have pondered over that but haven't found any mention with google or in the manual. Certainly the laptop will message that a speaker jack has been inserted. Alex, I like the idea of a squirt of contact cleaner. Am gonna try that one shortly. Thanks	Tbird650 (6754)
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