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Hotmail account verification - PLEASE help!
Can anyone, ANYONE please help me resolve what is my most frustrating customer service issue ever! I'm on holiday in the US and because of this, when I try to log in to hotmail the system detects unusual sign in activity. Sadly I have not kept my phone number updated on my hotmail account so I cannot receive a confirmation…
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AVG AntiVirus 2017 1 Year 1 User Windows PC - £7.99
http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/411105/ It's a download code that gets emailed to you, so no delivery charge or hidden fee's. £7.95 is the total price you pay. Good value for money, for peace of mind. Don't pay £40 retail!
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Solar Floodlight sought
We have an approx 6 year old Solar powered floodlight (similar to http://www.lightingever.co.uk/60-leds-pir-sensor-solar-floodlight-dusk-to-dawn.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1r2q_Jiz1QIV1C-BCh2abgAgEAYYASABEgL0cPD_BwE) - that has failed - the problem being the sensor is not waterproof (the rest of the device is rated as IP65 -…
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Need to reinstall Windows
gOH has major problems with his PC and it looks as if he will need to reinstall Windows (windows 7 pro.). The PC came from an OEM with Windows pre installed and an MS certificate of authenticity , with the product key, stuck on the side of the case. However he does not have a Windows 7 reinstallation. or recovery disk. I…
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Excel formula help
Hi folks You've been able to hep with questions I've had in the past, and here's a new one. I want to do the following, but can't sort the formulas out to help me - Cell A1 has a temperature reading Cell A2 has a Yes/No response Cell A3 has a Yes/No response The last two are responses to different questions I want the…
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System Restore in Win 10
I today put my laptop in System Restore following another dodgy microsoft update and it came up after a long time saying "System Restore did not complete successfully" I repeated it again and the same happened. Why has this happened? How do I correct it?
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Need a cheap computer quick
I need a computer for internet use. Cheap and one that I can hopefully sell easily after using it for 6 - 12 months or so. Used or new, but used should make it more affordable. laptop/desktop does not matter, but must be able to browse the latest websites without hanging or losing the page formatting. Can you help to find…
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An Expense Spreadsheet
Probably better here than in Essential Money but mod feel free o move if appropriate Anyway got myself into a bit of a bind over this past number of month and now that I'm coming out the far side I want to tighten my belt, keep a strict control of my spending with the intentions of regaining lost ground At the moment I've…
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How to sync iPod with new laptop
I've just spent 40 minutes Googling for a solution to my problem, but I'm still no wiser - so can any kind soul here please help? I have an iPod Classic 160GB which until recently synchronised with the iTunes library on my laptop. That laptop has been replaced by a new one, to which I copied the library. I now find that…
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cheap kids tablet
Hello. I am after some advice if you would be so kind please? I was originally looking at a DVD player for my car headrests so that my kids can watch dvd but then thought that a better option would be to have tablets instead so that they can play games and watch movies etc I am looking for a cheapish tablet but it must…
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Replacement battery required
My 5 year old laptop (an Asus X75VC) needs a replacement battery (it lasts less than an hour from "fully" charged) When new - it lasted at least 6 hours What brand should I go for ? Amazon have them at anywhere between £23 and more than double this I am aware that the most expensive are not necessarily the best ....
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auto launching of MS Edge - ugh!
Windows 10 on a laptop. I always use Firefox. But the last few days (since a Windows update I suspect) every time I boot up, Edge launches automatically with a load of rubbish 'news' feeds I have no interest in. An internet search shows others have had this issue, but none of the suggestions have stopped this happening.…
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Blue screen with reference to atikmpag.sys file
Hi forum folk, I am getting the dreaded blue screen which comes up referencing atikmpag.sys and never boots up. I run the following desktop configuration: Cooler Master Silencio 450 Intel Core i5 3570K Processor Overclocked to up to 4.0GHz Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler Generic thermal paste Asus P8Z77-V LX…
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How to make image backup with Macrium?
I've got W10 on an HP Envy, with a 128gb ssd C drive and a 1tb D drive with about 700gb free (also an E recovery partition) plus an external F 500gb with about 140gb free. I want to do a backup image of C instead of a clone as I understand it's better in this way as you can do incremental update backups of an imaging…
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Play DVD on Plex
:beer: Personally, I like to stream DVD movies stored on Plex to Apple TV 4 for watching. The point here is if Plex can support DVD files, shall we need to rip DVDs for Plex Media Server? Well, in this article I will share the easiest and quickest way to backup all DVDs ripped into Plex media server for streaming and…
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Router needs rebooting daily. Help please
Hi, I'm with talktalk and have the fiber boost which should reach speeds of 70+mbps. My internet was very slow so the engineer came out and decided that my router was on the way out. He replaced the router with another one and I got speeds of 50+ mbps, but these speeds dwindle throughout the day and by morning there was no…
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Problems with Fire Stick
Hi all, hope you can help. Since the weekend I've been struggling to watch anything on Amazon Video or Netflix through my fire stick. The picture's blurry and it keeps freezing to buffer. It seems ok on my laptop, but since I don't want to watch on a ten inch screen I've only been running a few minutes of a film at a time…
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Excel help
I am trying to get rid of all my paperwork by scanning. Is there anyway to link the scanned paperwork to an excel document? E.g. I have lists of repairs to various properties I own. Each property has a schedule of repairs for a given year. Underneath that schedule are the scanned receipts. Is it possible to,say, click on a…
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Help with Uninstalling a App
I posted the query below in another part of the forum but I'll post it here too in the hope someone can help. For the first time yesterday I did a survey that required me to download Inquisit. Although I've unistalled it I still have the icon on my desktop. I should have trusted my instincts and returned the survey I knew…
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windows updater very slow
can anyone tell me how to get windows updater to update,it gets to 50-70% then fails