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Which AI tools do you use?
Which AI tools do you use to save money, boost your income or organise your finances? Let us know your success stories (how much did you save? What did you learn?). Does your bank offer any AI tools and if so, are they a help or a hindrance? We'd like to hear of any duds you've tried too. Thank you. ___________________…
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Techie Stuff sticky
🖥 Useful thread from the Forum: * FAQs - Techie Qs & As (Some of the information in the links may be out of date, so please do check the dates of posts first). If there are any other useful Forum threads on this board that you think we should add, let us know 🗣 🖨Other helpful content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Best free…
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System Restore under Win 11 home
Has MS been stupid and removed System Restore from Win 11 ?I can no longer access this vital utility via Settings,It appears to now be called GO BACK and is Greyed out under settings luckily it is still there under Control Panel !
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USB Stick issue
Long story short - was using a 16GB stick as a home for a Linux Mint distro whilst trying to revive a (very) old laptop. Didn't achieve my aims with the laptop - I think the HDD is toast. But now the USB stick also appears to be b**********d. The issue is that when I insert in the Windows PC , I get a message "insert a…
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Dell Inspiron laptop power supply failure rate?
My partner bought a Dell Inspiron 3510 laptop in March 2022. The original power supply started to fail March this year after 3 years. It wouldn't charge the battery and the light on the supply didn't come on at all. However, if the supply was left unplugged for a few minutes it worked again for a number of days and then…
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Mobile/Portable Wifi Product Recommendation
Hello Can anyone recommend a good product. I am going to stay at a house that does not have a broadband connection. I don't want to tether/hot-spot off my phone and obviously I don't want to enter into a long-term contract. I guess at most it will be used to connect about 4 devices and allow me to work from home. Greatful…
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Air Fryer - which is best ?
Wife wants an Air FryerIt needs to be a dual drawer (we think !) - vertical (small kitchen)Which is the one to buy ?Ninja is a little too expensive (£270)
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Am Jazeera on tv
Hi guys, appreciate a bit of help please. a J has changed from 234, to 251, but I cannot get it. Retuned tv , got York freeview, but all I get is, 'plug in freeview device '! It,s inbuilt ? Tried all roads to get English channel but stuck. Appreciate any advice or help please. Cheers.
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Windows 10 - Has anybody been able to sign up for extended support?
With just over a month remaining I wanted to sign up my (officially) non W11 compliant PC for the additional year of W10 security updates, ideally using 1000 Microsoft Rewards points. As yet I don't get the option appearing in Settings > Update and security. I am running ver. 22H2 fully updated as of 10/09/2025. Googling…
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Good webcam for use with MS Teams
I need to get a decent but budget webcam to use with MS Teams as my 10 year old laptop's camera doesn't cut it. Can anyone suggest what's good for around the £50 or less mark. I did look at the Anker Powerconf C200 but there's quite a lot of mixed reviews with it's use with teams. I've also seen the Logitech Brio 500 being…
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Wifi mesh
Hi,Hoping to pick a few wise brains please.Background: We've moved into a 250-year-old 5-storey townhouse that's tall and thin separated across the middle by a thick wall.We just had Plusnet installed ( Wifi 5 Hub 2 ) with full fibre planned for our street sometime next year.It comes in via the back into the phone socket…
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What is WINGET
A pair of folders have appeared in Apps/Advanced App Settings/ App Execution Aliases "WinGet Com server" and "WinGet MCP server"What are they and can the be safely uninstalled ?
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Norton questions
Hello. I have Norton 360 deluxe installed on my PC. It came with the PC as a trial and I renewed it. Over the past few months there have been a few glitches with the PC and I have had offers of add ons from Norton which one or more seem to have sorted the issues out. I probably had a knee jerk reaction to the issues and…
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Affinity photo editor now free
Anyone looking for a free photo editor plus other things (From the web site..."Affinity comes with built-in Vector, Pixel, and Layout studios", Affinity's latest version is now free for Windows and Mac.…
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Virgin Media o2 Login - error code IDF-12B
I can login to My Virgin Media account on the web but the App fails with the above error message. FYI I've seen a post on the Virgin forums suggesting that this is a known problem and VM are working to resolve it.
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Large backup - suitable way to connect the drive?
I think one of my drives is failing so picked up a 4TB HDD to copy everything across. Opening my PC up, disconnecting drives & connecting up this drive to the motherboard is one option & probably the obvious one. Actually ended up losing a lot of files doing that once. I have one of these and also one of these. And in case…
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Problem Accessing My Outlook Email account
I have just changed my laptop and am having a problem getting into my outlook email account I keep getting my old gmail account which is still active but rarrely used how do i get into my outlook account
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Help With A New Laptop
Hi everyone, I hope you are well. I need some help in getting a new laptop. I have some vouchers for PC World so ideally looking from there. I have been to PC World for some help but the response I kept getting was "we have lots of laptops, feel free to pick one out". Currently, I have a LENOVO - Yoga 7 16" 2 in 1 Laptop -…
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Cheapest Office 365 family subscription source
Hiya, renewing on the Microsoft portal was always over £100. On amazon I was buying a year for £70 and it worked fine. Noticed prices have gone up and have been searching google. There seems to be sites advertising renewal fees for circa £60. Any reliable source?
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WARNING: Logged in to https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk and discovered a big data breach!
Please be aware if you use Postcode Lottery. Its had a serious problem this morning. I logged in only to find I was logged into someone else's account where I could read all their personal data. Refreshed the page and another persons details were laid bare.
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Fingerprint problem since update to Android 16 and One UI 8 - SOLVED
My Samsung phone recently updated to Android 16 and One UI 8 and since then I can't seem to use my fingerprint to log into my banking apps The apps say that biometrics are not set up on my device - of course they are, but the apps don't seem to think so! I've tried deleting and re-scanning my fingerprints but still no joy.
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Samsung to monitor via USB-HDMI cable. Not what expected.
So started up with Zwift last week & for the time being until I get a better setup sorted I was connecting the wife's iPad to a monitor via a USB-C to HDMI cable. It did the job just fine & was responsive. The monitor instantly displayed the iPad screen & there was no lag at all with swiping on the iPad showing up on the…
