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New Laptop Advice Please
Looking to purchase a new laptop. Our current laptop is an HP Pavillion g6 with an i3-3110M CPU 8GB Ram. Looking at going for a faster processor, still 8GB of Ram. Have always had HP in the past but open to suggestions. Seems stock is pretty low or non existent in most places. I've found these two and wondered if they…
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Kindle & Apps
I'm a great fan of my library and use their digital service which is accessed via an app on my phone/ipad though I occasionally will buy a kindle book if there's a deal to be had. However I'm finding (especially as libraries are closed during the lockdown) that whilst I start off reading I've found myself drifting to…
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'Leaving WhatsApp will be hard - but it is the right thing to do'
Interesting article in the Independent for those who don't like Facebook's ownership of WhatsApp: Leaving WhatsApp will be hard – but it is the right thing to do | The Independent The Signal app is mentioned as being what WhatsApp used to be, but without FB's harvesting of information. Who has experience of Signal and can…
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Google/Bing/Microsoft cares about your privacy message
Morning all, anybody know a fix to stop the continuous appearance of the "google/bing/microsoft cares about your privacy" message . I have done all that microsoft help desk says, tweaked the browser settings but to no avail.
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Free PDF Editor
I need to upload a self published book to an online publisher. I though need to custom resize the physical size of the PDF (not file size) to have it accepted. What free PDF editors can you recommend to do this simple task? I've been through hell and back trying to find something that will work including online editors…
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Restoring current downloads to bottom left of Edge browser.
Hi, I used to see downloads in progress at bottom left of Edge browser with option to view in folder delete etc, but that seems to have disappeared., Any way to restore I wonder? Many thanks.
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Can't log into TSB via browser on Android
I could last night but today I just get this
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Windows 7 Professional Upgrade?
Was clearing out my old stuff and had forgotten about my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Upgrade (Student) DVD, October 2009. Rather than throwing it away, is it still useful at all for a student, charity, or an education faculty? I purchased this from Microsoft directly so it is a genuine copy.
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What is this sms icon?
Hi Tried to send a text msgs today and it showed this icon next to the txt when I clicked send.. Does this mean mms message ( its an android phone) Thanks
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Amazon Echo am I too cynical
Recently after a phone conversation about a medical conditionNext time I used YouTube several advertised videos related to this conditionOn a separate phone call I mentioned a particular author Next day email inbox from Amazon a full list of that authors books were recommended Am I being too cynical? Echo microphone now…
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New Laptop Recommendations
I am looking to buy a new laptop for everyday use. Can you recommend a good one between £300 and £450. Looking for one with 8GB RAM and storage 256GB/512GB. Not sure if there is anything else I should be looking out for. Thanks very much.
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Is it possible/worth it to make a printer wireless or bluetooth?
I have a Brother HL2130 which is more than up to my home printing needs, cheap to run and still going strong after 8 years. It lives in the home office which isn't always where I am when I want to print (and as my laptop battery is failing rushing to the printer before the laptop shuts down is a bit of a pain), I would…
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Windows 10 Outlook 365 POP for outlook,com account stopped working
I've been using Outlook365 on a windows 10 machine and have
successfull been using POP settings for an @outlook.com email for some time -
yesterday this stopped working (my partner has an account on the PC as well and
her outlook.com has also stopped working. The POP settings being used are: Incoming mail server =…
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Smallest PC Form Factor that can take dedicated GAMING graphic cards etc?
Hi all During the lockdown period I have been busy renovating/building/replacing my home and work PC's with some USFF PC's that I acquired. It is fair to say that these PC's are brilliant. I love them! They are Lenovo Think Centre PC's. They suit us perfectly. They ones I have have an i5 chip and 16GB of Memory and when…
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Trouble with mp3 thumbnails when putting on Galaxy S10
So say I convert 10 audio files from YouTube videos in to mp3s and put them all in 1 folder. Within that folder they all have their own thumbnails which match the videos they came from. I then copy these to the SD card of my Galaxy S10. I download Samsung Music as I noticed i had no audio player on there. There's say 7 of…
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CDex problem
I've downloaded CDex from https://cdex.mu/download When trying to open it I got an error message about a virus. Windows Defender found one threat though Malwarbytes didn't. Now I can't remove it because it has a virus. How do I get rid of this now please and what other programme could I use? Thanks.
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IPhone photo not readable by transferwise
I have been sending photos from my iPhone to transferwise and they keep saying to send one that they can read. The photos seen to be very small when they are uploaded to the box on their site but I don't know how to enlarge them. I can't find anything about Image size and enlarging. I am not good at IT , so any hope is…
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Virgin Wine Incentive refused
I just wanted to say that I do think it very sad that people like me who live in rural areas are penalised, a, for the lack of signal for mobile phones, therefore not using mobile phone apps on a phone at all and b, for not realising that a download to a mobile phone if it was possible is different from logging on via the…
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Laptop with Danish Keyboard
For a couple of years, I have had a HP Zbook laptop. It is a top spec machine with the one drawback of having a Danish keyboard - don't ask why. It is an easy workaround using MS - Spacebar to convert to Eng language and only presents a few problems. I have had a few issues with key contact and have mucked up a couple of…
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Printer properties not available
Hi Long time lurker looking for some advice please. I have a HP all in one computer and two printers. When I go to print, on either printer and on different programmes, the properties box where I would normally select paper size and photo paper etc is not coming up. Does anyone have any ideas what this might be? I have…
