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How to cancel TotalAV?
Have contacted TotalAV to cancel and get refund and they sent a link to confirm cancellation. It doesn't work - I type in my email and password and 2 ticks appear as if saying they are correct but the process goes no further and small box saying to make sure email and password are correct appears on left hand side.…
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Humex sound problem
I'm using a humex box connected to free sat Everything is OK but the sound level on recordings are very low I have to put humux up to 40 almost max and TV to 20 normally be 8, I've checked cables and all seem tight, Anyone any ideas
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Anyway to use video calling using smart TV?
Anyway to use video calling using smart TV?I want to be able to use video calling with my 85 year old mum she is a total technophobe she does have a smart TV that she uses all day long for radio and television and can just about charge the channels and volume but that's it. I was thinking about Alexa video calling but I…
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Laptop advice
Hi all, I know this question gets asked a fair bit. Need to recommend something for relative in their 70s. We bought ourselves a used thinkpad x280 off Ebay a few months back. Very pleased with it, but they'll want a bigger screen. Robustness rather than portability is probably the priority. In terms of getting best value…
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Mouse double click
My mouse is starting to double click when I only click once, which is becoming a real pain in the bum. I tried my old mouse to see if that was any different and that seemed worse! Does anyone know what the problem is?
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Gmail mystery
Been using Gmail for yonks via Thunderbird on laptop but now I'm on a Chromebook using the plain vanilla Gmail app. When I was using Tbird, I'd start entering an addressee to an email and up would come a list of possibles from (I assume) my contacts list. And I could go through my contacts list every now and then, deleting…
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Powerbanks
Looking at the possibility of getting one. For the most part I don't actually need one. This would be for that one time where one could come in handy kind of situation. Example, when we go on holiday we do quite a bit of walking. The last time I had to turn off a fair few features that I normally have on and even then I…
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small DJI drone recommendation
after a drone recommendation please, i was liking the look of the DJI mavic mini 2, due to its size and 4k but saw it didnt have the 'follow me' feature. is there a similar small drone that does have the follow me, and 4k? I'm new to drones so hoping to not spend too much on one
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Help me pick a "unicorn" phone
I'm looking for something I didn't think would be that hard to find, but I keep getting foiled with the dual sim + tf as a lot of the phones I've looked at claiming to be dual sim are sim + sim/tf and not sim + sim + tf. What I'd like from a phone:2 sims (1 can be virtual)SD/TF card slotReasonably rugged (survive some…
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microsoft account team email
I have had a email that says someone has tried to change the password of my email account, if it was you use this link yes, if no this link. I suspect it is a scam, but wanted thoughts on it, thanks
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Improve WiFi
I’m a very untechy person so bear with me… we’ve got sky broadband, works fine- speed test is very fast (when lap top is plugged in). However the WiFi is just a bit rubbish. We can barely get it upstairs and kitchen is intermittent, when we do connect it’s very slow. We’re in a standard Manchester 3bed semi, the router is…
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Playing music files on a Chromebook
New to Chromebook and still getting my head round it. I've now got my entire music library copied to "Files", and they're a mix of mp3, m4a and m4p. How do I go about playing them when it looks like the Chromebook doesn't want to know the m4a and m4p formats? I see from searching that I could install iTunes, but I really…
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Gmail is changing my words
I type an email "Hi Beth" and gmail is changing it to "Hi What". I can't get gmail to stop doing this. I have smart compose turned off. I want to try changing the gmail view to basic html view to stop it showing all the gimmicks how do I change it to basic view only? I used to have it on basic view many years ago when my…
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advise a prog to convert image, please.
I used to use Coral Draw (or one of Coral' progs) to convert an image so that the white parts became transparent.If I remember correctly it converted from raster to vector image. It is to overlay two existing diagrams (currently as pdfs but can be copied to a picture format) on to Visio layers for comparison purposes (and…
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Windows 10 can't initialize new SSD?
I just got a WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe, put it in an external case and tried to format it. First of all Disc Management gave me two options to initialize, both failed with 'Incorrect Function' error. It was showing as offline, but clicking that to switch to online also gave 'Incorrect Function' error. I've tried it a 2 other…
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My PC died.
My pc which is just short off 7 years old died a couple of weeks ago while I was using it. When turned on, all fans start, green light on motherboard comes on but only for a second or two, then there's a click and it dies, then tries to start again then dies, etc. The only way I can stop it is to unplug at the mains. Is…
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Password/log in on Acer Chromebook
I'm just getting to grips with a new-to-me Acer Chromebook and at present every time I open it up, I have to enter my password. Given that I'm not bothered about anybody else accessing the machine, is there a way of setting this thing up so I don't have to do that?
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Using RelayUK
I am trying to use RelayUK to make an important call, never used it before and as a (virtual) non-speaker, I find it hard to communicate via phoneDoes Relay UK need a phone actually bluetooth connected for the duration of the call or once set up and linked, is that it ?Because, I have linked my mobile and when I put in a…
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Help with pc please.
Hi when my pc switches on a message comes up saying MPC Error. LoadLibrary Tray Frame.dll Failed:126. Can anyone suggest what I can do to rectify this please . Thank you
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Unable to print from my imac to HP Envy printer " Inkjet1 .driver" will damage your computer. ..
Well no it won't , but it did mean that I had to compose a note on my iPhone to print instead . I do appreciate apple's security , but is there a way of getting rid of that notification so that I can actually print something from my imac when I need to? I don't print much stuff , but I wanted to print something quickly…
