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Flash drive brands?
Is there any other decent brands other than listed below that I know of: Kingston SanDisk Verbatim I'm looking at getting a 128GB, I don't want to buy a cheap one from a brand I'm unaware of and it fails or breaks easily, and missing out on any other decent brands.. Thank you
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Lenovo recommendations
I currently use a Dell pc which is 9 years old on Windows 7. Its an intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB memory, hard drive 500GB. I am thinking of buying a new desktop and have been looking at the Lenovo website. I don't do any gaming but want plenty of memory and a speedy computer. Id like one with a good display for me to work on…
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BT community broadband schemes
Has anyone had any direct involvement in the coordination, setting up (and successful completion) of a BT community fibre broadband scheme? If so, would you mind sharing your experiences?
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Usa original Epson ink cartridges. Will they work in UK printers.
As it says in the Title. I have the opportunity to buy a set of 4 really original Epson ink cartridges (made by Epson themselves) at a good price, £10 a set with free p&p, instead of £30 here in the UK. The company selling them is based in the USA. Will there be any region USA software restriction on the ink cartridges…
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New printer for small office
I know it's been asked many times but here we go .... I help out a bit in a friends office. They have PC1 hard wired to a Brother B&W Laser printer. PC2 is not used as often but works just fine. Both PCs are on W10 They needed a new multi function printer to scan and colour print wirelessly from both PCs and purchased a…
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Used Ink Cartridges.
I have a large number of used HP cartridges: genuine HP 364XL, all 5 colours. I used to recycle them to a company which sent me large envelopes and gave a proportion of profits to the NSPCC, but they have stopped trading. I live near Louth, Lincs and also started giving them to a school, but they have stopped recycling. I…
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nationwide bank log in using IE11
I have tried to log in to my account in the nationwide bank but every time I get on the home page within two seconds it opens another blank page and the computer freezes i have tried firefox and yesterday it came up with nationwide has a problem with the sites security cert yet today it has allowed me access to the site…
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Benefits of refurbished laptops/phones etc
Found this really interesting article about how we should be thinking about choosing refurbished equipment instead of always buying new (you can read it here). What are people's thoughts on this? Electronic waste isn't something I've even thought about until recently
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Cheap desktop required
A workmate is wanting to get a computer, he's fed up with breaking his iPads. :cool: I don't have anything in my pile of stuff suitable for chucking one together. :) He was wanting a laptop, but I'm hoping I've persuaded him to go for a refurbed desktop. I'll sort him out a monitor, keyboard mouse etc for nothing. It's to…
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Help my PC wont copy large files to my new SSD drive.
Hi I am having problems backing up to my new Samsung 500GB SSD drive. I am using it externally on a USB3 lead with the drive being inside a dedicated SSD drive case. It works fine to access but backing up seems to lock up after a few seconds if I select anything bigger than small files. It will start to copy the files and…
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Please help: laptop mega-slow
Hi all, I have a Lenovo laptop, it's about 3 years old, and up until December it was working perfectly. I mean, totally perfectly, to the point that I kept thinking what a good laptop it was. However, it was switched off for 3 weeks while I was at my parents place over Christmas, it was not used whatsoever. Prior to thism,…
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Out of touch
Over the past few years, I seem to have got left behind a little with new technology for tablets, mobile phones etc., and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a publication, be it monthly, weekly, that would help me get back up to speed. Even a website if there is such a thing. I am okay with the basic, but I am…
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AllShareFrameworkDMS stopped working
keeps coming up on my HP Pavillion a6421.uk desktop. what is this. No ill effects detected.... thanks
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software issue
On starting my Windows 10 I get a message 'unable to start dolby audio drive how do I get rid?
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Desktop Shortcuts
Windows 7: A couple of days ago I booted up and found that about half a dozen Excel shortcuts had disappeared from the desktop at random. I set about replacing them, but when I was about half way through it got more bizarre still. I right clicked the next file and then "Create Shortcut", but no shortcut appeared in the…
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Another W7 update tale of woe
Today was the monthly roll-up (whatever that is) for Windows 7. As usual, I just allowed it to happen and then went for a restart. Normal process, shut-down, configuring 30%, shut-down/restart, log-in, configuration then wait, wait, wait, finally a box "updating personalized (why can't they use English!!!) desktop…
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Problem after Windows 10 Update
Hi Everyone Earlier this morning my computer updated Windows 10. The update took over an hour. Following this the computer won't start up. It gets as far as a screen asking me to "Choose your keyboard layout". I then select 'United Kingdom'. This then takes me to another blue screen with the following options: CONTINUE -…
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A camera to photo moving target
I've done a little light reading and found that it's not just all about the megapixels with bigger numbers automatically meaning better cameras but that's about as much as i learned. I read that good DSLR cameras will give out great image quality but then i saw their prices. Basically we keep fish as a hobby and like to…
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Smart IPTV app on Samsung TV.
Hi, Hope someone can help. I downloaded the IPTV app for my Samsung Smart TV last week. It’s free for 7 days & then there’s a £5 one off payment to keep it. This is due in a day or two & I don’t know how to pay this fee. I expected an email notification from Samsung but nothing yet. This forum is great for advice &…
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2 apple tv's same user ID, different locations
if i had 2 different apple TV's both with the same apple log in but at different locations can they still both work or are there any limitations ? Ie If I had one , then at my parents they had one and at my brothers house he had one? could we all access the movies on the library and watch whenever or can you not use at the…
