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Archives for June 2018

This popped up
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK... I don't think it's safe to. I have pasted it here only for you to see if I should be concerned. I shut google chrome down and then this popped up. Should I be concerned and if so how do I get rid of it? I also had a recent.trending-shares.online pop up about 2 weeks ago but my broadband provider…
Knowledge Vs Intelligence
Here is the difference between knowledge and intelligence. Here you see a group of scientists with a lot of knowledge (received a lot of information), gushing about how well their cheetah bot negotiates trip hazards. Whilst between them they probably have eight degrees (read a lot of books), they're not intelligent enough…
FB- messenger
Good afternoon, I'm having a clear out and advertised a number of things on fb selling pages. My messenger app is showing no new messages , however when I go onto Facebook there appears to be 9 messages. When I click through to messenger from fb, I can't see any messages. I know there is an 'others' folder somewhere but on…
IP Address Compromised
I just had a phone call from an electronic sounding american voice (tel. no. 01777 710275) saying my internet connection will be cut off within 24 hours because my routers IP Address has been compromised. It said press 1 to speak to a technician to change it which I didn't as I don't think BT uses electronic sounding…
echo dot
Just had my virgin media superhub changed to hub 3 got new password and trying to reconnect to a echo dot but all I keep getting is amazon 3kj connected no internet,how can I solve this please.Thankyou.
printing from word on chromebook
Hello All, I've just bought a new Chromebook and can use it with my cloud printer and it works really well. But i can't print from Microsoft word it comes up with an error saying printer spooler keeps stopping .and it closes the app. Any idea?
Windows Xp problem connecting to Internet.
I have just bought an Asus Netbook to help me transfer all of my pictures, kept on a memory stick, across to Google drive. I appreciate its only running Windows Xp but as it's main use is for the above use, I thought it would be fine. I have set the Netbook up and have connected it to my WiFi, which is Virgin Media. It's…
Plumber problem
We called a company out of desperation called ERG for a crack in the toilet.. at the time of the phone call this wasn’t mentioned was the problem... a man came out and told me I would receive a quote the next day (the original problem was known to the landlord who said he would wait til it was a problem and he would sort…
Belkin router not working
I have an orange (intermittently turning green) light flashing on my Belkin router against ADSL, and it won't connect my Macbook Air to the internet. I've tried resetting it by holding a paper clip in the little reset hole for 10-15 seconds, and switching off and on again both the router and the Mac, but now nothing is…
403 Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL
Help,anyone know a quick way to stop this occurring please. Started happening today after TalkTalk put a bar on my Internet/phone yesterday evening in spite of me having zero outstanding billing.After much tearing into them last night until they closed at 8pm....and again this morning when my phone was back to outgoing…
Email/attachments encryption
I need to encrypt my emails and attachments. Looked around for a simple program but how do I know they are ok to use they could be anybody iyswim! So looking for recommendations please. When googling this one seems to come up first…
Default password for Smart Watch?
Does anyone know the default password, for a CPSW1 Smart Watch? I can't find it in the so called "manual".
Phone driving me nuts, keeps asking me to review a pub
Hi My phone is driving me potty, I keep getting asked maybe twice a week to review a pub by Google I've never been to the pub but I passed it going on a bike ride about 3 months ago - my phone has been pestering me to review it every since. I've tried everything to try to stop it, turned of notifications in google maps, I…
Putting photos back on comp from disc.
Wonder if anyone can help please. I put some photos from my PC onto a disc CD 80 and deleted the photos from the computer. I was wondering if there is anyway I can put some or all back on the computer please. Probably a stupid question lol. I can't see anyway of doing it when I look through them on the computer. I'm a bit…
Paper path jam - HP 4500 envy printer
Another cry for help from this direction! I recently unnamed some paper from the paper path in my printer, but struggled to get the paper path reinserted securely. Finally I did, but it's now inserted so securely it's actually jammed. Any ideas on how to remove this section once more? There's more paper stuck in ther but I…
adblockplus
I have just downloaded adblockplus to my windows 10 computer running edge I can find the program in add or remove programs but it has not installed any icons on the tool bar or desktop can anyone help
Windows 10 disaster HELP
Hi , Wonder if anyone can help, got a large automatic update from Windows 10 , now when I sign into my computer only getting a blank blue screen , don't know what to do, not very techy. Is this the end of my laptop? so annoyed although my machine is a few years old it suits me fine and I have a lot of family photos and…
Twitter tech question
I opened a twitter account in my own name (let's call me "Mary Jones") which was subjected to horrible bullying, by thee male strangers who hold different political views to me. They found my Facebook account, stole pics of me, and screenshotted posts by me, and used them to mock and attack me on Twitter. Complaints to…
Chrome and Lloyds Bank website
Have never had any problem before, but this evening Google Chrome will not load the Lloyds Bank website. Please does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks.
Microsoft excel help
I need to create an exit message on a file which appears before the file is saved reading Have all filters been removed? With yes allowing them to save and no cancelling the save request. Could someone tell me the best code to write to make this happen please? Thanks

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