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You have 0 hours left to get Windows 10 for £0
If you are still unsure if you want to upgrade to Windows 10, you can create a backup image of your already-activated system and re-install it at any time. That way, you can easily switch between Windows 10 or your current OS at any time in the future. Linux users, you may sit this one out...:) EDIT - too late!:(
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Song from Finding Dory suddenly played on my speakers
I was printing an email and suddenly music came out of my speakers. According to the lyrics it was from Finding Dory. The email was from my local council about waste collection. The email was the only thing I had open at the time. I know the email was OK. So what could have happened and is there any reason to worry about…
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Extending Gigaclear internet in the home
We live in a small village where the fastest internet we get is about 14Mbps, so pretty slow. (There is no cable supplier, only Sky). Gigaclear have been round and are almost up to the order amount to install their network and we cant wait, up to (obviously not guaranteed though) 1000Mbps. When its wired into the home,…
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Windows 10 - new laptop start menu cluttered with crap
Hi I got a new laptop which came with Windows 10. I am really struggling with it, as it just has loads of useless crap on it - when I open the start bar, it shows rubbish like Twitter, XBox, weather, there is so much pre-installed unwanted stuff like games, phone companions etc it feels as if this is someone else's…
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Video Formats
I have some videos on my media player, which I put on ages ago, which are .avi. I want to put some more videos on the same device, so I converted these from .mov to .avi, and put them on the player. They won't play. I used Format Factory to convert them. I even tried .mp4, and that doesn't work. How can I work out what…
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Should I delete partitions before installing W10? (Asus E402MA)
My Asus E402MA apparently has an oversized recovery partition, making the upgrade from 8.1 rather difficult. Should I follow these suggestions from reviewers who have also bought the machine? (I've bought a new 64GB SD card). 'John' says: It comes with Windows 8.1 operating system pre-installed on it, but due to the very…
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Restore deleted MMS
Help! I accidentally deleted all my text messages on my Moto G. I can find programs, via Google search, to restore them but am unsure if they are safe to use. Please can some kind soul recommend a trusted data restore program?
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Someone is using my email address
Recently I have been receiving literally 100's of Delivery Status Notifications about emails that have been sent from my email address. Most of these are in Russian. Some are in French and Spanish also. The whole exercise seems pointless as none of the emails are getting delivered. All that happens is that I get probably…
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Someone keeps signing up to the Shpok app with my email
Does anyone know how I can prevent this please? It's just happened for the third time and, while Shpok delete the account, they're not doing anything to prevent it happening repeatedly. Thanks
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Don't like Cortana ? Read on about the anniversary update.......
In another act of the long running Microsoft stupidity saga, here comes the sting in the tail (probably one of many) for the price of free in the form of the W10 anniversary update where you can't readily turn off Cortana and have to resort to more involved means than just the flick of a switch. Further reading and work…
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Contacts icon vanished
Hi, I'm running Nova Launcher on a Samsung Galaxy S7 and my Contacts icon has disappeared. It is no longer on my home screen or in my app drawer. I can see it if I default to Touch Wiz, but much prefer to use Nova Launcher. I can also see it if I go into Applications Manager and it is not disabled. I have tried clearing…
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Excel Query (Last one)
I know I've posted a few recently, I hope people don't mind me posting one final query. I have to following code and it returns a value, however is it possible to remove the first two characters, is this possible? =VLOOKUP(A30,'second tab'!A:IV,MATCH(Template!K29,'second tab'!1:1,0),0)
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E mail newsletter
'OurKid' is secretary of a 'club' and wishes to send an e mail to each of his 42 members. His ISP is Farming on Line will only allow 10(?) sent messages per hour to "comply with the law" and so have suggested that he uses 'mail chimp' He has looked at this with his chairman and they have both concluded that "it is way too…
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Help!!!!! excel is crashing..
Hi all. I am using dell windows 7 proff.. When i open microsoft excel, window configuration box pop out...it configuring half way and than stop suddenly...than another box pop out says window installer and than third one software update box....so hit yes to allow change on hardware but after 5 mins it stops...at the end…
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Win 10 upgrade - please verify plan
I decided to install Win 10 on a new disk and activate with Win 7 key, just in case I might want to upgrade later. It went a bit wrong so I am starting again, just thought I would ask you to verify plan. Desktop, Win 7 pro 64 bit Downloaded 64 bit ISO and burnt to CD. Purchased drive from CEX (!), took out old drive, put…
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Advice on Excel
Hi All, I've a little Excel query and I can't quite solve. What I have is in column "A" a list of job titles and in column B I need to convert these into specific titles. So for example if Column A mentions "football" I need to convert this into "footballer," if column A mentions Food I need to convert this into Chef…
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Windows 10 question please
How do you get windows 10 to remember usernames? I have clicked YES to passwords option, nut still have to enter e mail or user to log in. On windows 7, you start to type and it would fill in, or you would get the option to highlight and click. Anyone please.
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Can you help here please?
Quick question from someone with limited usage abroad:- Morning. Question for your tech people. Trying to use a site called. Education city. It says I need to have adobe flash player. It is not available on android. I have tried a few that are and none of them work. Any ideas. Thanks in anticipation
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Mirror transfer everything from one HDD to another
I think my current hard drive is about to die an i have a second (and larger)one that I would like to directly use to mirror failing one literally transfer (clone) everything over from one to another. Both are sata drives and i would like to be able to just boot from the new one straight away. Can anyone suggest software…
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MacDonald's WIFI blocks Yahoo
Hi Guys As I recently moved I don't have internet access at the moment so I'm using MacD's WIFI. However, I tried to check my yahoo email account and it is blocked - something to do with content. Is there anyway I can get around this to check my emails?
