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Dell Inspiron laptop power supply failure rate?
My partner bought a Dell Inspiron 3510 laptop in March 2022. The original power supply started to fail March this year after 3 years. It wouldn't charge the battery and the light on the supply didn't come on at all. However, if the supply was left unplugged for a few minutes it worked again for a number of days and then…
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Why do all major price comparison sites all use the same results provider?
Whilst researching same insurance quotes from all the major online comparison sites all my results came back via a company called "Simply Business". I had a follow up call from their rep and out of curiosity i asked a. why does it all come back to one company and where is the market competitiveness price wise in that that.…
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Ideas for writing on cards.
I didn't know where to put this thread. My dad and FIL have about 200 Xmas cards to send this year. We have told them that we would write who they are from and we have address labels for the envelopes. One has Parkinson's and the other bad eyes and other ailments so sitting and writing is hard for them both. I was thinking…
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Best free alternative to Word?
My year's free subscription to Office 365 is nearly expired, so I'm in need of a free alternative to Word, purely for creating letters and documents. I've previously used LibreOffice, but are there perhaps alternatives nowadays that are worth checking out?
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iphone 17 issues
Please help someone. I have new iphone and my messages are going as sms messages and not over wifi. I have googled and when I get to imessages-send&receive - my phone number appears with the spinningwheel next to it. I have googled the problem, followed on/off instruction/ signing in and out and everything else, but…
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Mobile/Portable Wifi Product Recommendation
Hello Can anyone recommend a good product. I am going to stay at a house that does not have a broadband connection. I don't want to tether/hot-spot off my phone and obviously I don't want to enter into a long-term contract. I guess at most it will be used to connect about 4 devices and allow me to work from home. Greatful…
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Windows 10 - Has anybody been able to sign up for extended support?
With just over a month remaining I wanted to sign up my (officially) non W11 compliant PC for the additional year of W10 security updates, ideally using 1000 Microsoft Rewards points. As yet I don't get the option appearing in Settings > Update and security. I am running ver. 22H2 fully updated as of 10/09/2025. Googling…
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Affinity photo editor now free
Anyone looking for a free photo editor plus other things (From the web site..."Affinity comes with built-in Vector, Pixel, and Layout studios", Affinity's latest version is now free for Windows and Mac.…
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Wrong Location on Facebook Marketplace
For some reason my Facebook marketplace location has changed to San Francisco. I have tried changed the location to my UK address through the marketplace settings and it keeps reverting back to San Francisco. I use a windows desktop. Any ideas please?
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Norton questions
Hello. I have Norton 360 deluxe installed on my PC. It came with the PC as a trial and I renewed it. Over the past few months there have been a few glitches with the PC and I have had offers of add ons from Norton which one or more seem to have sorted the issues out. I probably had a knee jerk reaction to the issues and…
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Am Jazeera on tv
Hi guys, appreciate a bit of help please. a J has changed from 234, to 251, but I cannot get it. Retuned tv , got York freeview, but all I get is, 'plug in freeview device '! It,s inbuilt ? Tried all roads to get English channel but stuck. Appreciate any advice or help please. Cheers.
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System Restore under Win 11 home
Has MS been stupid and removed System Restore from Win 11 ?I can no longer access this vital utility via Settings,It appears to now be called GO BACK and is Greyed out under settings luckily it is still there under Control Panel !
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Virgin Media o2 Login - error code IDF-12B
I can login to My Virgin Media account on the web but the App fails with the above error message. FYI I've seen a post on the Virgin forums suggesting that this is a known problem and VM are working to resolve it.
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USB Stick issue
Long story short - was using a 16GB stick as a home for a Linux Mint distro whilst trying to revive a (very) old laptop. Didn't achieve my aims with the laptop - I think the HDD is toast. But now the USB stick also appears to be b**********d. The issue is that when I insert in the Windows PC , I get a message "insert a…
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Air Fryer - which is best ?
Wife wants an Air FryerIt needs to be a dual drawer (we think !) - vertical (small kitchen)Which is the one to buy ?Ninja is a little too expensive (£270)
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Good webcam for use with MS Teams
I need to get a decent but budget webcam to use with MS Teams as my 10 year old laptop's camera doesn't cut it. Can anyone suggest what's good for around the £50 or less mark. I did look at the Anker Powerconf C200 but there's quite a lot of mixed reviews with it's use with teams. I've also seen the Logitech Brio 500 being…
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Wifi mesh
Hi,Hoping to pick a few wise brains please.Background: We've moved into a 250-year-old 5-storey townhouse that's tall and thin separated across the middle by a thick wall.We just had Plusnet installed ( Wifi 5 Hub 2 ) with full fibre planned for our street sometime next year.It comes in via the back into the phone socket…
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What is WINGET
A pair of folders have appeared in Apps/Advanced App Settings/ App Execution Aliases "WinGet Com server" and "WinGet MCP server"What are they and can the be safely uninstalled ?
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Large backup - suitable way to connect the drive?
I think one of my drives is failing so picked up a 4TB HDD to copy everything across. Opening my PC up, disconnecting drives & connecting up this drive to the motherboard is one option & probably the obvious one. Actually ended up losing a lot of files doing that once. I have one of these and also one of these. And in case…
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Problem Accessing My Outlook Email account
I have just changed my laptop and am having a problem getting into my outlook email account I keep getting my old gmail account which is still active but rarrely used how do i get into my outlook account
