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Pension Tracing Service not working
I was looking at the gov.uk Pension Tracing website before , but it does not appear to be working this week. Is anyone else able to access it ?
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Changing Battery in a Kindle Keyboard (D01101)
I've had this for many years but barely used it but when i went to use it recently the normal Empty Battery message doesn't go even when charging using different chargers and different fixes etc Apparently not using them isn't great for the battery. I don't want o buy another one so i'm looking to change the battery but…
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Kestrel Viewer App CCTV problems- cannot view - Wifi IP range conflicts?
Hi, A few months ago we installed CCTV to our property. We could view the cameras remotely via our mobiles and tablets. Yesterday the login appeared frozen on my iPad but I was still able to view on my iPhone. Then last night we had a “connect fail” message when we attempted to log in using a Samsung Galaxy tablet and…
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Email from Bankrate
I received an email from 'Bankrate' asking me to verify email address by clicking a button.But i did not try and open Bankrate account, never even heard of them before but they seem to be some US company.Should i contact them via the email address below to let them know i did not create a Bankrate account or could that…
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Alter music playcounts on Plex
I'm running Plex Media Server on my Synology DS923+. I'd like to alter some of the playcounts on my music collection. Is there anyway to do this on Plex? Thanks.
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Software for printing photos.
Hi, I am not very tech savvy and I am looking for an inexpensive or free software package to print off/resize/ simple editing of photographs. I am not wanting to edit videos or produce anything very complicated. Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks!
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Video card vs Battery life - laptop
My MSI laptop has two different video choices - a lower spec Intel Iris XE and a high spec NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4060 - I have been running on the high spec until recently, when I noticed the battery was not lasting as long as I expected Running on the NVIDIA - Battery lasts 1 1/4 hoursRunning on the INTEL - Battery lasts for…
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New phone £200-£250 help.
Looking for suggestions for a new Android phone, nothing
fancy just reliable, good storage, good battery life and a half decent camera.
Budget £200-£250. Is this doable and if so, what would you recommend please. My current phone is a moto g 9 play if that helps.
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What's going on with my location?
For a little while now my location has been wacky on my PC. It's never pinpointed me precisely (which surely is a bit wrong since I'm connected to the router via cable?!) but it's generally got me somewhere close-ish. Lately though I've just been way off. A few 100 mile away. Google Maps is one that's been getting me…
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How on earth do you (legally) buy/download music these days?
I could hop on YouTube & acquire it that way but I want to do it via proper means. It's been that long since I bought any new music that the 'old ways' seem to no longer exist? I'm not interested in streaming at all so that rules out most of what search results are telling me. And I'm not looking at illegally getting music…
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Burn music to CD
I need to burn some music to a CD to play for an occasion. I downloaded one song from YouTube as an Mp3 file I then used Windows Media Player to burn it to a blank CDAfter it failed for the third time, I gave up and binned the CDs :'(We've now found the artist's original CD in the garage and would like to burn six tracks…
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Scan Old Slides to PC
Digging through some memorabilia and found a load of slides. We have borrowed a Maplin Gadget 5MP Film to PC Scanner which works reasonably well but is very tedious to use. (You have to manually insert three slides at a time into the fiddly holder, then push them through and click 'scan now' on each one, then remove and…
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its another laptop scam =sorry folks did not realise straight away.
I would have ignored it but it froze my computer so I had to phone the number given for Microsoft Windows Defender (Removed by Forum Team) - Guy called Brandon answered and said I needed to pay for an extension for windows Defender 1 year £199.99 2 years £299.99 or 3 years £399.99. I did ask questions - he said he worked…
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Wiping phone for sale - remove Google Account?
Hi, Grateful for some help please on preparing phone for sale = removing all personal data and leaving phone usable for new owner. It's a Huawei P30 Pro. We know about factory reset but on a previous phone when we did this, when switching phone back on after reset, it still asked us to enter old Google Account details once…
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Password Protecting External Hard Drives - how to?
Hi I back up to two USB external hard drives: Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex and Western Digital My Passport What is the best/easiest way to password protect these external drives? And perhaps with a way to recover a password if lost etc? I copy over all contents of my laptop to these. There is one main folder with loads of…
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Where to buy
I am looking at Lenovo laptops, what are your thoughts on buying direct from Lenovo or Currys, I know a lot of people hate Currys, I am not keen myself but needs must.
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Where to sell old phone
I have an old Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in working condition that i have just found in a drawer from a few years ago and may as well sell it. I have done a factory reset to get rid of personal info. We have a Ce exchange in town and there online (webuy.com) says its worth around £25 which is ok, but can you sell in store? or…
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How do I show ALL Thumbnails rather than placemats / icons ?
My Windows 11 laptop is not letting me display Thumbnails in some folders - defaulting to icons - I have even resorted to clearing and resetting the thumbnail cache with no changeI have "always show icons never thumbnails" UNTICKEDHow do I ensure that Thumbnails are visible ?
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OLED vs qled TV for a sunny bright room
Still looking and every site I go on says something different We ideally want to spend around £500+ on a 55" TV which can be used in our bright lounge. Our current TV which we have had for 7 years has been brilliant but we are now struggling to watch Netflix/primer movies etc in the summer as they look so dark and the…
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Sound bar connection- no hdmi or optical
Hi all ! Had dramas with a new media wall and basically it doesn't have a hdmi port on the sound bar and the optical cable on the TV is damaged I've bought an rca red white which doesn't connect- think as the TV is input not output. How else can i connect? Soundbar has an orange coax?