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Sky not picking up signal since electric went off
Yesterday we had our boiler replaced, we had to switch off the electric whilst it was connected and once the electric was switched back on now our sky is not working. We get a message saying that there is no signal being received by the hd box, we have rebooted the system, switched it off and back on again to no avail,…
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Case for Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7
Has anyone got a recommendation for a reasonably priced case for the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7? (up to £25 OK) There's loads on amazon but people often review just when product new. Also need a screen protector - which type best? Never had a tablet (or even a smart phone before) so a bit clueless on these matters!
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Video compression freeware
I am looking for video compression freeware that I can use to losslessly reduce the size of a folder of videos by about 33% - I must be able to state the desired folder size - so Freemake is no good !! Freemake may be infected - Avira blocked the download anyway !!
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Adhesive to stick Mirror to Tiles
I would prefer not to drill into my porcelain tiles in the bathroom because they are heavens hard and it does open a small area of potential leakage for moisture. Is it possible to have an adhesive that sticks a 600 x 600 mirror to a 600 x 600 porcelain tile? People tell me drilling is the answer but I understand Concorde…
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Need a good photo scanner
I have volunteered to digitise the old family photos. There are hundreds of glossy photos, in a variety of sizes, in both black and white and colour. I've heard good things about scanners like this, but other reviews say the downside is the macro camera lens is reflected in glossy photos. There are good reviews for the…
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Will system image of windows 10 be ok for recovery?
Hi folks, I got a new computer for my son who has learning difficulties, has windows 8.1 on it so tried to set it up. Installed avast and antimalwarebytes, and did a scan with both, both came up with infection, the malwarebytes one in particular had three backdoors, so quarantined the lot. Computer did have windows…
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samsung smart tv
hello just wondering if anyone can help we bought a samsung 48in smart tv from currys in may 2014 payed 699.00 for it but the tv stopped working last week no picture it had 12 months guarantee which has ran out we went back to currys who told us get on to samsung which we did but the say we have to pay for repairs we have…
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Lap top from Tesco, never again..
Hello everyone, a warning about buying a computer from Tesco Direct.. I Bought a HP Pavillion 15-P251na in October 2015, it had issues from the first time I used it, I have contacted Tesco who put me through to HP who went through the hardware and told me they will not warranty software.. I have sent umpteen e-mails to…
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Google your username?
what comes up and how many results come up the front page is just of accounts i have had on this forum and other forums and 5920 results come up and the first image is this
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And now to get that cheap, replacement desktop PC...
I'm looking, if possible, to spend considerably less than I did last time around. I see that entering the search term 'desktop pc' on ebay brings up a lot of reconditioned and 'a-grade', mostly Dell models between £50 and £100. Would anyone say these are a possibility? Bear in mind that I don't need gaming or streaming of…
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Best affordable printer?
I currently have a laptop with no printer and would like to invest in one. What would be the best affordable one which enables: A) Coloured printing B) Scanning C) Printing off decent quality pictures
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Mobile Phone Ringtone
I have just bought a new Alcatel One Touch Pixi 3 phone and all the ringtone appear to be cr*p. Can someone please tell me where I can download an old fashioned ring ring tone?
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Google Drive problem
I was looking for a specific specific document in my synced Google Drive folder on my PC but could not find it. I searched via the Drive website and found it - but only by way of searching the file name. When I looked through My Drive and all its folders I could not find it. Neither did it appear in "shared with me",…
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San Disk Cruzer - USB 3.0 ?
I have in my arsenal - a San Disk Cruzer 16Gb that I always assumed was USB 3.0 - but am now getting (slower than) USB 2.0 speeds out of it ..... (5-10Mbps) Can someone please confirm whether it is dying or should I be getting faster from it ? It is…
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WLDCore.dll is missing - Windows 10
I get the following message up when clicking on links to bring up an email to submit certain competition entries :- WLMail.exe - System error The program can't start because WLDCore.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this program. I do not get the message when clicking on links to web…
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Buying a 2nd hand PC
Current home PC is approaching 10yrs old - an HP Pavilion that's done sterling service but won't run anything above Vista in it's current format. Given we have laptops/tablets in the house I do still want to replace the base unit (22" monitor, keyboard etc are all still more than adequate) Usage is mainly MS Office stuff,…
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Windows 10 emails illegible
Just recently some (not all) emails I receive are completely illegible script. This is a new computer with Windows 10 pre-loaded; running Kaspersky free anti-virus - any clues on how to fix this please?:(
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Camera Display just flashes.
I've got an Olympus Stylus 1050SW. It's six years old and used to work OK, but now when I turn it on the display just flashes every second or so. I've tried cleaning the contacts but to no avail. Should I get a new battery do you think? Or just throw it away?
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Panasonic TV not recognising android phone
hi i have a samsung s5 phone and when i plug it in (via an hdmi/usb/mini usb lead) to my samsung TV and change the tv's source to the correct hdmi port the phone shows on the tv screen and sounds thru the tv perfectly. but when i try the same thru my main (newer) tv which is a Panasonic TX50CX680B the phone does not appear…
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Document sent in an e-mail opens with the toolbar showing
I can't quite understand this. I usually just print these off to post, however I needed to send 2 as the recipient is abroad. However it doesn't matter which way I try this, from a file or straight from the screen, when i open it before sending to check, the document shows the tool bar. I could send by pdf but prefer to…
