Techie Stuff

We have numerous Tapo devices in the house including the singular smart plugs & also the 4-gang socket extension which has a cord length of about 1.5mtr. I just need something a bit longer really. 2mtr minimum, maybe 4mtr as a play safe in future. Doesn't have to be Tapo but then there lays the problem.... So far Tapo has…

Tried logging in on a website & the credentials I have stored in Bitwarden didn't work. Absolutely not true so I imagine the website has reset my account or something. Go to auto regen a password but the problem is it wont let me save it to my Bitwarden account. Close it down & re-open & just a no-go. I'm constantly…

I have been mulling over the idea for a tablet device but never really sure what I would use it for. Last week I was at a workshop event and everyone was there with their laptops for when they needed to present plus a device for taking notes. My device for taking notes was a pad and pencil. I felt like a bit of a dinosaur…

I'm using a win 10 laptop. I have a few videos (mp4) and I'd like to extract stills from certain parts of them as jpegs. I've downloaded Clipchamp but I can't see how to save bits as jpegs. Searching produces nothing, nor does 'help'. Can this be done and how? Since downloading Clipchamp I've seen how this can be done…

I think that I have a corrupt PST file - it's 3.4Gb in sizeWhen I try send/receive on Outlook - I get a send/receive errorIs there a maximum size allowed ?Anything I can do ?

I've got a Moto G32 smartphone and my storage is very nearly full (mostly with apps). I'm looking at buying an SD card but I had a quick look at the motorola website and regarding using SD cards with the G32 it says "you can't store apps on the SD card because it is portable storage". I've seen videos on Youtube of people…

I bought a copy of Microsoft Office because I want to own it outright, not pay a subscription. I have downloaded the Office Setup program and when I launch it, i get a window headed Microsoft 365 And Office. I'm concerned that if I proceed I will get charged a subscription for Microsoft 365, which I emphatically don't…

Is this possible? The apps on our previously Smart TV have disappeared one by one. I can log in to an iPhone or iPad to see the series on those, but we really want to view it on a TV. With BBC, Channel 4, ITV, etc. there is an icon to click on our various phones and pads and programmes cast fine to the TV. There doesn't…

Hi all I’m not sure if there’s such a thing as the device I am imagining. I am looking for a light switch for my home that looks and acts like a normal on/off light switch 99% of the time. However, the other 1%, when I go on holiday, I want to be able to switch the lounge/bedroom lights on at various, random times. I guess…

I have a five year old HP Pavilion Gaming 17-cd1014na laptop running Windows 10 (with extended support) The built in webcam no longer works in Zoom etc. Camera no longer appears in Settings-Devices. How do I reinstall the correct driver? The HP web site was unhelpful as it doesn't appear to list a webcam driver. Thanks

My wife & I are longterm LastPass users, sharing one account with two sub identities, which saves cost and can be useful if we ever need to log in for each other. We have YubiKeys which add an extra, non password level of security, which I think is essential. Especially since the poorly announced LastPass security breach a…

Am considering getting a camera doorbell that I can hardwire into existing doorbell circuit as a replacement for the bell push we have fitted. What I am struggling with is that the current circuit is a simple 2 wire effort so one core of the doorbell wire carries the voltage and the second core connects the voltage to the…

For years I have been able to read MSE easily on my phone because the text was automatically arranged in columns like in the second picture. A few weeks ago, it inexplicably switched to displaying text I can hardly read, as in the first picture. Changing to another browser doesn't fix it, and other websites aren't affected…

I bought my apple watch Cellular model without doing enough research and now find that to use the cellular feature causes more disruption than expected. The sim plan in my phone is Lebara (£5.00 a month) but I am informed that Lebara do not do a plan for an apple watch only an iPhone. So as far as I can tell; to use the…

I disconnect my computer and monitors from the mains every night they are on an extension lead. So when I throw the switch to turn everything on my computer boots into Windows 11. Now when I throw the switch I just get a no signal screen and the computer does not turn on, no lights. If I then push the button to switch on…

I'm thinking of investing in a password manager such as Nordpass or Roboform which seem to be the most highly rated and about £0.75p a month. Any views, pro's - com's on password managers would be most welcome. Thanks.

I have some old 78 records, and I have an old 'vintage' style record player, which has just packed up. I saw a record player online, which only played 45's and 33's. But on Amazon there was another one which played all 3 speeds, so I phoned Richer Sounds about the first one, which they stocked, and they told me that there…

Hi all My wife wants to play music using her phones own music player app when she flies next week but when we have tried playing the music offline in preparation for it they won't play. Can anyone suggest what we can do please Kind regards mark 

As per the title really .. Set up a new PC for 'our Kid' and tried to use netplwiz to get it to log in without entering a code but now we have two users, both called Our KidI've logged him into one with his MS account and it all works fine but when we reboot, it first says "your password is incorrect" without even asking…

What would you do in the following scenario? I purchased a Dell Latitude 3540 from a local auction site (not eBay) and got what I think was/is a pretty good deal. The described specs were, 12th Gen Intel i5 processor, 16gb RAM, 512gb SSD etc, but what I actually got was only 8gb RAM, 256gb SSD but it does have a later 13th…