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How to completely factory erase a Hudl v1?
I have been given a Hudl (v1, not v2) which was used by a child. Somehow it become infected with a virus or adware and nothing I have tried so far seems to shift whatever is on it. I have tried restore to factory defaults via the settings menu, using the volume up/power menu to erase and restore user data and the cache.…
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Microwave above (or on) dishwasher.
Hi I've just bought a new freestanding Bosch dishwasher and in the manual it says: "If you install a microwave oven above the dishwasher, the microwave oven may be damaged." Just wondering how they think the damage might occur? Steam when the dishwasher is opened perhaps? Has a microwave oven ever been damaged by a…
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LED light conversion
hi, do we have any electronic wizards on board? :) we have a set of led lights Xmas type that have a switch box to alternate between different flashing sequences .... however we would like to remove these features and just have them all on / all off .... the controller circuit board is here there are two wires in from the…
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Micro$oft Money question
Hi all, My 84 year-old Father uses an old copy of Micro$oft 'Money' to keep track of his cash; investments; bills; and budget. I know M$ have stopped producing it and Quicken went the same way around the same time. At 84, he'll be lost without 'Money' now. He's going to upgrade Windows to ver. 10, while it's still free,…
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Email Issues - being returned undelivered + receiving multiple copies
I dont know if these two issues are connected or not. For some time, over a year I suspect, emails sent to me by certain people have been returned to them as undeliverable. On resending/forwarding it would leave & I would receive the email. I thought it might be a compatibility issue with Macs and didn't give it a lot of…
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BT with Fon
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 with o2 network.....I normally connect up to my home WIFI....Virgin Media. I am NOT a BT customer...but I am able to connect to BT wifi with fon without paying! Has anyone else come across this?
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Which email provider to use?
I've been a talktalk customer (9yrs) & have decided to leave them(for sky/plusnet) I know that I can't keep my email addresses but I've no idea what's the best option for me. I use a desk-top(home) with Thunderbird & firefox. Is outlook mail available with firefox? It needs to be simple to set up please. Thanks
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Tablet stopped connecting to wifi
I've had my tablet for quite a while and never had any problem with wifi. I was using it yesterday and it lost the connection. I've not been able to get it back on. It shows the list of available networks and mine shows as either 'authentication problem' or, after I've clicked on 'connect' it shows as 'saved, secured with…
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Web Credentials
I am trying to check my password list under the Control Panel - Web credentials - it is asking for my Windows password - which I do not have (I set up Windows 10 to log in automatically) How do I get round this ? I have tried my Hotmail password - which I have used in the past to log in and that fails !!
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Very cheap GPS tracker required.
Background.. Sister shares car with son, repair bills getting bigger. Tells him calm down, respect the car. No funds for new car, it needs to last. Driven sensibly it should last a long time. Front brakes were down to the metal within 7 months of fitting new ones. Had to shorten the above it was like reading war and peace…
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All phones have 2G/3G/4G, so why don't all laptops? (!!)
The Title says it all! Why do you need a dongle or phone-pairing when it should be so easy/cheap to include the hardware to do this?
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Always downloading something?
Can anyone help me? My computer is downloading something at 120 kbps all the time, even with no pages open. The only way I can stop it is by disconnecting the wi-fi. How do I find out what it is doing and stop it? As I am on satellite broadband I have only a 10gb monthly allowance and this will sap in in no time at all.…
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Windows 10 - Storage Pool
I have my storage pool set to Parity with 3 drives (currently 1 x 1TB, 1 x 2TB & 1 x 4TB) The drive that is a 1TB is showing 95% full. I want to remove this and put in a new 4TB but there is no remove function at all on any of the drives. Is this because the drive is 95% full?? Or is something else wrong?? Can I force the…
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Safari 9 Browser on Windows 7
Is it possible to get the latest Safari 9 browser on Windows 7? I assume this is the version used in iOS 9? I only seem to be able to get Safari 5.1.7 for Windows. Is Need to test a site in Safari, I assume there is a big difference in Webkit in the two versions?
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Downloads being saved automatically
Since changing to Windows 10, I have discovered that when I'm in a financial, utilities company, etc website any statement I open to look at is being saved in my computer 'downloads' folder in unprotected form. Does anyone know how I can stop this. I'm sure it never used to happen. As it is, I have to check the downloads…
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Texts not being delivered
Hi, wonder if anybody can solve a mystery for me please? Since 5th January I have sent half a dozen texts to a friend and another to somebody else, and I didn't get a reply to any of them and no notification that they couldn't be delivered. I have just had a phone call from my friend to say she'd received all my texts this…
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Dedicated Server or Shared Hosting of LoopByte
Hello there. I am little bit of confused as to which hosting platform should I acquire for my website. Apart from that LoopByte provides the flexibility in choosing both for windows and Linux.
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New Home Phone - with call blocker
I've worked form home most of the past two weeks, and been plagued with nuisance calls. Probably about six a day, two thirds of which are silent. Mostly from call centres in India asking me to complete a survey. Anyway...as a result I have decided to change the phones (which are old anyway) to a version that will allow me…
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Sync to remotes?
Have brought the Sony 8005c. And the Sony wt80 sound bar. Can the sound bar remote be synced to the TVs remote and if so how? In the easiest way possible please!
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Facebook
Can anyone help with this a couple of days ago i created a new facebook page purely to advertaise second hand cars and called it something similar to the company name. All was ok for two days but I arrived home this evening with loads of messages etc but couldn't access the page and found it was disabled. I tried to find…
