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Archives for February 2016

Chrome equivalents for Firefox extensions.
Recently Firefox has been crashing a lot and I am trying out Chrome but I am sorely missing some of my fav extensions like Tab Mix Plus. InForm Enter and Thumbnail Zoom. I wonder if any of you clever guys can help me out here as my own feeble attempts are not bearing a lot of fruit. Thanks.
The case of the invisible cursor.
My new Toshiba laptop has done this twice now, I thought the first was just a passing thing but no. Here's what happens normally. I leave the pc in sleep mode. Once in this mode for a length of time (with the on/off button blinking) it seems to go into a deeper mode (with the on/off button lamp off). Perhaps this is…
iPod woes - have I killed it?
Well hubby definitely thinks I'm responsible for the demise of his iPod so any suggestions as to how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. It's an iPod nano 7th generation. Yesterday I added some more music to it via ITunes which I have on a laptop. Al went ok however when I unplugged the iPod from the laptop (when it…
Webcam on Asus laptop
My Asus X75VC webcam will not work - now that I am running Win 10/64 The drivers don't appear to be loaded and Asus don't list them on their support site I am sure that, previously, on Win 8.1 - I accessed the web cam from the START menu - but which program / utility would I have used ?
WIFI in the garden.
I need to extend our current WIFI into the garden. We live in a converted stone barn with meter thick walls. The WIFI inside the house is perfect but it doesn't penetrate the barn walls into the garden. I have been looking at a few websites and asked questions of them, but to be frank, I don't really know if what they…
Windows 10 bricked my all-in-one HP desktop
This Sat I have checked my desktop compatibility etc, and went ahead with upgrading my HP ENVY 23-d227ea TouchSmart All-in-One Desktop PC (ENERGY STAR) to Windows 10. I now have black screen. Fan works, and that's it. I've disconnected everything apart from the USB keyboard, but still can't get BIOS menu up. Black screen.…
is an aftermarket iPad battery worth it - or just junk?
Having had really bad luck with laptop batteries in the past I was wondering whether it would be any use changing an old iPad 3 battery to a aftermarket one. There doesn't seem to be any genuine Apple replacement battery in the market and the only option is to go aftermarket. Just wondering if it's worth breaking the…
Roku Streaming Stick - can't set it up
Hi, I have just bought a Roku streaming stick. I fitted it in the hdmi slot of my Techwood TV and also attached it to the usb cable which fits in the mains. The light on the stick comes on. However I can't get the hdmi channel or the set up screen at all, only the usual freeview channels with my usual remote. The roku…
Raspberry Pi 3
Just ordered the new Raspberry Pi 3. If the performance improvements over the model 2 are half those of the model 2 over the model 1 I'll be a very happy bunny. Looking forward to getting my weather station and other stuff off the model 2 and seeing how it performs. The all I need is another project for the model 2. I put…
New Laptop to replace Toshiba satellite 660
I'm starting to get an occasional hard disc failure warming on my Toshiba 17 inch satellite 660, so perhaps this is a good time to replace it. Looking at the specifications I'm surprised how little laptops have moved on over the past 4 years. This model is on my short-list however there is a comment which suggests the chip…
Organising playlists on Google Play Music - Android phone
I use Google Play Music to stream music via bluetooth from my phone to the car stereo. When I look at the music files on the phone (via my PC), all the songs are contained in one folder. However on Google play on my phone I have ended up with a couple of playlists which each have some songs that appear only in that…
website speed
Hi, I'm not sure if I am allowed to ask on here, but I post all the time over on the mf wannabe board. Would a few of you mind checking out our website for speed? I'm specifically looking for info on whether it would be worth paying a company to recode the webpage to make it all load faster. It's hard with so many images,…
Installing windows 7
I have quite an old Toshiba Laptop running on Vista. How do I install Windows 7 on this machine? Sorry, not very tech savvy at all.
App to show what a PC is doing?
Just getting used to my new W10 laptop and one thing that's different to my old laptop is the absence of a little light showing hard disk use and an icon on the task bar showing wifi activity. So i'm occassionally waiting for something to happen and I've no idea what the PC is actually doing. So, does anyone know of a…
Windows 10 Calendar
Hmmm! Is anyone else a bit naffed off with this? Initially the Windows 10 Calendar app looked promising. View all your calendars and e-mails in one place. I then found that when I made a diary entry, it sometimes immediately disappeared. I noticed that entries in the immediate future stayed, and re-occurring events, but…
norton constantly telling me it has blocked an attack
over the past day or so i have been getting constant pop up messages from norton telling me it has blocked an attack by trojan.cryptolocker. the messages literally pop up every second or two none stop. it is annoying. is there anything i can do to stop it. when i clicked on view details there was an option to click that…
Adding an Extra Monitor to Desktop pc ..advice please
Hi I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 73 SFF the back of looks like this I have a AOC monitor , and now wish to add an extra Monitor which is a Asus VX239H-W Do I need a passive adapter to DVI or HDMI ...? searching google has not helped, and anyone know the best place to purchase Thanks for your help , it will be much…
Photographs; How to trasnsger To Piicasa 3
I want to download my Photographs from my camera into Picasa 3 where all my photos are currently stored How do I get them to download into Picasa as at the moment they are suddenly going somewhere different. I think It is Jessops which I have never used. Do I need to change my settings and if so how do i achieve this. My a…
win10 upgrade on new PC.
Hi I have a new Lenovo PC with win 8.1 loaded. I want to do a clean install of Win10. have followed all instructions and down loaded to a flash drive using the media creation tool. After downloading I got a window asking if I wanted to "Upgrade, install windows and keep file settings" or "Custom, install only " I chose…
H2testw
Is H2testw reliable? I purchased 2 Kingston 32Gb SDHC cards from ebay, I ordered class 4 but was sent class 10, and I think these may be fake. The intention was to use them in a Mobius dash cam which has 16Gb class 4 cards in at the moment and work as they should, (class 10 won't work as I have tried before). These 32GB…

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