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A friend is being scammed, advice wanted please
Hi I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on what to do, a friends father has been landed with a rather hefty bill (£600) by a company to fix his Toshiba laptop. He had an issue with not being able to open his email due to what appeared to be a virus, so rang BT (his ISP) - they tried to help but suggested he ring…
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Edustore V Apple edu store
I am interested to buy a MacBook air 8gb 256 ssd at £892 with 3 yrs guarantee at Edustore inc discount for students & staff. The same item from apple education store will cost £1103.19 including 3 yrs apple care. With Edustore it is return to base on the 2nd and third yr. Apple care seems very good and I wonder whether I…
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Repair scratch on laptop lid
Hi, Have a few scratches on my new laptop, the lid of it. I was reading some people use polish to get rid of them, just wondered if anyone hads tried and had any success? If so could anyone recommend a name/brand/type of polish I should use for such a thing? Cheers Mark
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One drive question
Hi I've been using one drive for a while now and really like it especially auto transfer of photos from my phone. Unfortunately I've come to the end of my storage of 42gb built up over 10years!! I pay 49p each month but now MS are asking me to upgrade which costs a lot more!! I don't really want to move to another provider…
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Free Word Download that is safe.
Can anybody suggest a free download for word (does not have to be the latest addition). A couple I have tried my security programme has deemed them unsafe to download.Thank you.
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Laptop battery - please help
Hi all Hope you can help. I need to replace my laptop battery (HP Probook 4720s). I found an identical one on Aliexpress for around £44 but the delivery time is.. well.. 20-40 days. I've also found 2 similar ones cheaper in the UK, although with slightly different specs. Is there any danger in getting cheap replacement?…
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Domain names
Can someone please tell me how to find domain names that have either not be used before or are for sale by genuine owners....just a bit wary of bandits out there...cheers
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Streetlife / Nextdoor
Does anyone here use either of these websites? I've been a Streetlife member before and have now been asked to migrate my account to Nextdoor, but this seems to be poorly set up in privacy terms as you have to have a full name and your street name on your profile.
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Win 10 restarts after pressing shut down
As title, lenovo G50 insists on restarting 5 seconds after pressing shut down. I've unchecked the box for auto restart after system failure. All updates are installed. Annoying but not too much of a pain just don't like comps beating me.
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Best portable speakers £50-70
Thoughts? Like the look of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jam-Stereo-Bluetooth-Wireless-Speaker-Black/dp/B00X7SIO6Y%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI2TAAXITCWDBXDMQ%26tag%3Dtrusrevi01-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00X7SIO6Y&ascsub!!!!!11232_7 Has aux in so presumably can be hooked up to tv as…
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Run DLL
I recently uninstalled a HP3050AJ611 printer. Since then I keep getting the following error every time I start up. "There was a problem starting C:\Programme Files\HP\HPDeskjet 3050A J611 series\bin\HPStatusBL.dll The specified programme could not be found. Can anyone help me to get rid of the error please.
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PC interface to grab video & audio
I guess that this will be a common requirement but with various interfaces available of varying quality. Recommendations would be welcomed from those with experience of video interfaces to record to PC and then onwards to DVD. As the source will be videotape cassette, by today's standards it will not be particularly high…
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Raffle number selection
Hi I have been asked how do you do a number set up for people to choose a raffle number on a page is there an app I know there is an app for drawing a number, but have had enquirys as to how someone would choose their number any answers would be greatly appreciated thanks guys
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Need to be able to create hyperlink or PDF please
I need to be able to create hyperlink or PDF and have windows 10 and have Libre Office. When I highlite the article then go to file i can see export as PDF but then follows umpteen options to check but don't understand them, consequently am getting no-where. Sure there must be a way easier such as copying an url to use in…
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Refund via SagePay (Country Kit Ltd).
Hi I made an online purchase for some glasses to a company called Country Kit Ltd. countrykit dot co dot uk Received an email confirmation of the transaction which has a unique ID. This was on 23rd Jan. I have tried to phone Country Kit several times (each time it goes through to an answerphone). Tried sending an email…
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Anyone using chrome?
You may want to have a think about privacy etc. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/05/chrome_56_quietly_added_bluetooth_snitch_api/ If you have Bluetooth on your device any website you visit can collect data from any other device in range that also has Bluetooth turned on. That may not be a problem to you, not sure that…
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re-malwarebytes protection threat
Hi Guys, for several days, Mbam keeps popping up telling me of an Outbound threat, Blocked. It's every few seconds. In the Logs, its source is protection, and User is System. The threat is listed as Sync-eu.exe.bid.50245,( or other port) Outbound C:/Prog files/Google Chrome/Application/Chrome exe. I have looked at Chrome,…
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Can't divert email from FOL to GMail
Our kid has an e mail address from FOL (Farming On Line) @farming.co.uk FOL have been playing silly B* and now, when he goes abroad he has to use their (Roundcube) webmail system as they won't allow access through his MS Outlook mail reader "because of encryption problems" - don't know why! So, I tried here…
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Port forwarding and NAT randomly stops working
hi I have a wgr614 router which was connected to a to to link switch(unmanaged) I change the to link switch to a netgear pro safe (managed but I haven't changed any settings) I have a combination of NAT(ip camera) and port forwarded devices which always used to work when I had my to linknswitch connected to router. Now…
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Is two VPN's one too many?
My favored browser is Opera which has the added advantage of having a VPN facility you can enable. Along with this I've just invested in Kaspersky Internet Security 2017. Along with the Safe Money protected browser function (which for some reason doesn't work with Opera), it also has a Secure Connection component which…
