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Adobe Flash Player problems.
I have a Windows Vista operating system and use Opera as my browser. When I try to check that my version of Flash Player is up to date it's telling me that my plugin wont work. I've tried re-installing but no joy I'm afraid. Any advice please. Thank you.
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Strange email query
My ISP is plusnet My e mail/domain provider is 1&1 I also have a onetel account which I 'divert' to my gmail I was getting a few strange bounce messages saying my IP address was blacklisted (? I think?) So, I have changed my SMTP to my gmail addres I replied to a btinternet email this morning from my 1&1 account and then,…
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Canon Lide 120 Scanner Error
I'm desperate! I've spent about 4 hours this morning trying to get my (newish) scanner to work. I have previously used this scanner when I first bought it , but now I have some really vital documents to scan it's all gone wrong - nothing will scan. Things I've tried: Uninstalled and then reinstalled driver from disc, no…
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Win 10 update and Cortana PITA
Did the latest update yesterday and now I don't seem to be able to get rid of this damn fool Cortana thing. Given that I was perfectly happy with W10 until yesterday, I don't use Edge or any of the other MS bells and whistles if I can help it and I'd like my search box back, is there any reason why I shouldn't undo this…
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Windows 10 update - now no green box when logging in to secure sites?
There was a W10 update last night so today I'm not getting the green box when logging into secure sites such as Internet banking. For example Lloyds bank the padlock is there, the writing is in green but is not coloured in so much more difficult to see if the site is secured or not. Anybody else getting this? Is this…
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Which Laptop/PC for Elgato HD60
Hi guys My son has an Elgato HD60 game capture, that he wants to use to make videos of his xbox one gameplay. He needs a laptop/PC for this (which we need to purchase but I'm clueless as to what I need ) I've had a look at the system requirements (…
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LG OLED screen failure
Our new LG OLED Curved TV of 7 month's old has suffered an early life failure in that it it came on with as a dark screen with 3 intensely bright vertical white lines emanating from the top of the television descending to a point source below. Within moments the lines disappeared and the screen bubbled, melted and cracked…
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Transfer texts from iphone to samsung - Help Please
As above I am trying to copy all my texts to my samsung s6. can anyone advise me? TIA
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Wireless camera
Does anyone have any recommendations for a wifi camera with recording feature to memory card that I can use to achieve the following; I want to be able to put something up in the corner of a room to record several business training days. I'd run power. Sound is not important. Each day we would remove the SD card and put in…
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Movie maker for windows 10
Could anyone recommend a movie editing app for windows 10, I need to edit some footage from my dash came and movie maker isn't available anymore. TIA
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Packard Bell EasyNote
Hi all I'm looking at a friends laptop which has Vista Home Premium on it and I want to do a clean install. There's no media available (even using Google). Anyone any ideas? I want to get rid of all the bloatware and start again.
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problem connecting wireless printer to wifi
I am not a complete novice but this printer is driving me round the bend. I have already had 2 new printers in the past year, but my darling cats knocked both of them off the desk and rendered them useless. This time I bought an as-new reconditioned one (all have been HP ones) and tried to connect it to my wifi today with…
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Theory Behind Excel Code
Hi, I know some are cross with me for posting Excel queries on here and I really don't want to annoy anyone. However I am trying to learn the theory behind a few things and I would appreciate if anyone is willing to help me with the "true" segment of the following "if" statement?…
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Recommend a Wired Keyboard and Mouse?
Looking for a good wired keyboard mouse setup with 1m+ cables. Also ideally would like it to be a quiet as possible, so no loud tappy keys or mouse clicks? Budget is about £30. Any recommendations of stuff you use at home or work?
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Connecting iphone or hudl to old tv
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ESYNiC-Converter-Composite-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B015XCA6RG/ I've just bought one of these from Amazon but it still needs another cable which goes from my iphone to the box. It says hdml/MHL on the socket. I've googled but not really sure what I need. I was hoping for something that could be used from…
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Android 7.0 Nougat update
I haven't seen much mention on here of the new version of Android yet, so as it is currently downloading on my Nexus 5X I thought I would start a thread to collect comments good and bad. I'm hoping it will fix the longstanding Marshmallow issue with delayed alerts.
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Whats app messages help please
Hi I have changed my phone from apple to samsung this week. I downloaded whats app on my samsung and logged in with the same mobile number as always. I noticed I had lost all my chats so went back and logged in my iphone to find no previous chats there either. All i want to know is are they permanently deleted since i can…
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Email contacts importing
Can anyone help me please? I'm trying to import my contacts into Windows Live Mail, but the file type is Contact file (contact), opening with Windows Contacts. This doesn't seem to be recognised by WLM, so does anyone know if there's a way to convert these files to a supported type, such as CSVs please? Any help greatly…
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Ios 10
Well, it seems to be snappier than the preceding release and generally just a bit better all-round.
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IP address - getting 169 instead of 192
This is a bit too techie for me and something I have never encountered until now!! I have an EE Y800 personal hotspot router and have the DHCP IP Pool set to 192.168.1.100 - 200 as default. I use 5 devices (it can take 10) joined to it, ie a Windows laptop, a Chromebook, Apple TV, iPhone 6S and an iPhone 6. Usually when I…
