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Sub £30 Android TV boxes - any good?
Hi all, With things like the NVidia Shield being well beyond my budget I'm looking at the many Android TV boxes available on eBay and Aliexpress with the hope of decent enough speed and Kodi etc. I'm seeing many have the S905X Amlogic processor and generally 1G/8G on RAM and storage. Are they much a muchness and generally…
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Pute or Monitor?
That's it really guys. eight year old Dell, running Visa. Similar age Samsung 204B monitor. On start up, the monitor either stays on a black screen, or cycles through a couple of grey screens. Up to now, have been able to force a startup by unplugging the monitor briefly from the mains, and plugging it back in again. Any…
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Need to be able to copy PDF link without it opening in full without being clicked
A few years ago, I wrote and had an article which was published. I have just hopefully created in in PDF form and its on my desktop. What I want to be able to do, is lift the link and place it either in an email or forum, without it opening in full, without it being clicked, simply because it is four A4 pages long. How can…
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My Passport external hard drive help
This was working fine with Windows 8.1 but now I've upgraded to windows 10,the smart ware app won't open or run at all which means that although I can see the documents I've saved to the drive, it won't do the autobackup etc. I've tried updating the drivers deleting the software and reinstalling, and running the…
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Brightcove >>> harmful website blocked
My ISP has blocked Brightcove relating to videos provided on various newspaper sites. Does anyone know, please, what the underlying problem is?
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Spell Checker in Firefox
I have Windows 10. When I use Edge it spell checks in all applications e.g. Emails(BT or Hotmail) and MSE Forum. However given the problems I have with Edge - particularly with emails - at the suggestion of someone on this forum I use Firefox. Generally it is much better, excepppt it dooesn'tt spel chheck in MSE or my…
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Extended characters in batch files?
I'm writing a Windows batch script which outputs text to the console and to a log file. I remember, from the days of DOS, there were characters in the "extended" ASCII range that could be used for drawing boxes, like the ones here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing I copied and pasted the box characters into my…
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Need advice on a tablet and a cheap laptop
Hi all, I need help purchasing a new tablet, I've currently got a Tesco Hudl 2 tablet and I'd like one with similar specs that's sold at a similar price that the Hudl 2 was originally sold at, which was £120. What company actually manufactured the Hudl for Tesco, I read other somewhere but I can't r remember the name of…
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Firefox Not Responding (Windows 7)
Within the last few days, Firefox keeps freezing about every few seconds and it says (Not Responding) in the browser. Has there been any known updates that could have caused this? Are other people having this problem with Firefox recently?
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Ebay search function not working with Firefox
Hi There, in the past week or so, every time I try to search for an item on Ebay, it initially loads the results but then redirects to this page…
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Odd 'My EE' problem
Solved: I needed to re-log into the account for some reason. Now the display looks different, so maybe they logged me out when they changed things. I have a PAYG moble using EE and an app on my phone called 'My EE'. I use this occasionally to check my credit balance. I have it set to access the internet only via wifi.…
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Charging Bose QC 35 for the first time
I have some new Bose QC35 headphones - do i need to charge them for a set period of time for the first time?
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Dropbox
Does Dropbox work in a similar way to Onenote?
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Netbook for travels
My daughter is off to Borneo for a year, living in the rainforest. She needs to keep her luggage light, and will not have electricity all the time. She needs a robust netbook that will hold its charge and tolerate the damp! It will also be her main means of communication with home!! Any suggestions, please?
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OneDrive Help Please
When using Windows 10, and in file explorer. Then I drop documents into the OneDrive icon on the left column. So far so good, it drops into OneDrive folder but it does not go up into the cloud. How can I get those files to upload into the cloud. All the tutorials seem to say it does it automatically.
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ecommerce website
Hi I'm looking for some advice on a new ecommerce website. I have had a shop on ebay for a couple of years and it's got pretty busy so I'm looking to start a website alongside so I can sell more things direct. It will be pretty simple in design but expandable as I add new items. I don't have any time to do any work on it…
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Virus and potential Technical Support scam?
Hi, Can anyone advise me? My mother lives 20 miles away and told me she had a problem with viruses on her computer. She got fed up waiting on me getting down to see her and googled "Norton security help". To cut a long story short, the number she phoned is not Norton but a "Technical support Company" who she allowed access…
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New User appeared on my pc
I noticed today that a new user has appeared on my pc and I'm worried. It normally just says GILL-HP but an extra one has appeared saying USER-TOSH. It asks for a password and username, and there is an option for remote access, which worries me. I can't work out how to remove it. Can anyone help, please.
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OneNote
Can someone please explain how OneNote works. I presume you can save docs., on a cloud but when I open OneNote and type in a doc., how do I save it there?
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Cheap back up lead for laptop
I'm always leaving my laptop lead in the wrong place, it would be really great to have a back up or two. I had a look on eBay, but I'm not sure about the end. It's a blue tipped circle. It's a HP elitebook 840 G3 I can find them on Amazon for about £22 - Is that the cheapest?
