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Please recommend budget refurbished laptop
Looking for a decent refurbished laptop for my nephew who will be studying computer science. No gaming or other antics. Unfortunately the most I can spend is between £150 and £170 (or under :) ). Any recommendations please? Thanks all
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Email hosting
Hi EveryoneHope to get some advice on email hosting if possible.I have a domain name registered with GoDaddy, and use it with a gmail account so that I have a myname@mydomain email address.Google Workspace started charging in Oct 2022, and since then have steadily increased the price so that they now want £12/month (must…
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Laptop fan "revs up" when screen turns off
When I'm working on my Dell Inspiron 17-5770 the fan is only just audible. I have it set for the screen to turn off after 20 minutes of inactivity, and within a minute or two of that happening the fan speeds up and is quite loud. This continues until either I start using the machine again or it goes into sleep mode. This…
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Can anyone report an incorrect movie on PLEX?
Plex showed an advert supported movie called Hurricane Heist, curious how bad the adverts were on Plex we clicked it and found the movie was totally different to the one listed. Instead of Hurricane Heist about weather it was a film Hurricane from the same year but about WW2 Polish pilots joining the RAF. Tried joining the…
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How much phone data do you use?
I have recently bought a pay monthly sim for my phone that has 12 gb of data per month. After 4 days use, I have only used 130 mb. We have Wi-Fi at home, so the phone data is only used when out. I haven’t yet watched any films. If I did would that push up the data used a lot?
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Recent ad blocker problem
Hello, hope someone can help.I watch tv on my laptop and not had any problems watching live or carchup, but the last few days, I have not been able to watch because the screen comes up that I have an ad blocker, this was when I was trying to watch channel4 catchup, might very well be others but this was where it has…
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Network a PC and Laptop
I have a windows 11 pro PC and a windows 10 pro laptop that I am trying to network together. If I use file explorer I can see the laptop from the PC and the PC from the laptop but I can only click on and use each users folder, otherwise I get Windows cannot access \\W10laptop\c\Windows or any folder other than Users same…
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Box.co.uk in administration
Shame to discover this today, I only bought from there a couple of months back, item arrived quick and most of their reviews are positive. I guess their competitive prices were difficult to keep them in business. Thought I'd share in case anyone had bought anything from there recently or used them.
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Lebara & WiFi Calling
Moved from BT mobile ( EE ) to Lebara ( Vodaphone ) about a month ago. WiFi calling worked with BT mobile. Despite several 'Chats' with Lebara I still am not able to use WiFi calling on my mobile phone. Moto G50 Android 12 Anybody else having this problem ?
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LAPTOP! Looking for a Cheap / Reliable / Pretty Fast One. Mainly for Microsoft Teams & Zoom Meetings
Hi all, I currently have a desktop set up, which works well for most things I want to do. However, even after buying a couple of different webcams to try over the last few years. I find they are not great in online meetings, it's quite difficult to find the perfect spot to place / rest them. So I end up looking as if I am…
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Disney+ app will no longer open on Smart TV
Disney+ app was working perfectly fine on my Philips Android TV. Then my subscription ended and I took up a new subscription, using a new Disney+ account. Set it up on my laptop and fully activated. However after clearing all the previous account account details from my TV app, clearing cache/data, force stop and the…
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Outgoing emails blocked
A problem has started today with emails failing to go out from my Windows 11 laptop through my Three broadband hub (ZTE MC888), which appears to be because my IP address has been put on the CSS blocklist (see https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?searchterm= for more details). Any thoughts on what I can do to get it…
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Unlock mobile phone
I have my sons iPhone. He passed away last year. I want his phone unlocked so I can use my SIM card in his. Apple store will not unlock it without proof of purchase which I do not have. Can anyone help?
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ip address from fe80::1683:e97e:e9b7 ?
If I ping JohnPC-w10 I get Reply from fe80::1683:e97e:e9b7:c3d7%15: time=7ms How do I get the IP address in the format 192.168.0.??? ?
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Weird recurring wrong numbers to our business
This is such a strange problem but I am desperate to know if other people are suffering the same thing because I suspect it might be an internet scam that nobody is yet really aware of. Our business has had the same number for 15+ years, at three different locations and we've had VOIP lines on the number for about half…
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Help Google Cloud conundrum
I am in a club which stores some documents in google cloud. It has been set up by one of our members. If anything happens to them how can we get in as the only way is to get notification through there phone which we can't get. Hope this makes sence.
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PlayStation 5 account/game sharing
I have just bought another PS5 for my other son so now we have 2 in the house, we have some games purchased on my account and some on his account. how can we make the games work across both consoles and is there a way both sons can play the same game at the same time on the different consoles?
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satellite cable for freesat
Hi, I need help please. I bought a Manhattan sx freesat box and I think I need to buy a satellite cable for it but I don't know which one? I've contacted the freesat helpline and they're not helpful at all. Thanks. San
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Raspberry Pi
Hi all I've come across a raspberry pi in my box of "bits". I'm not sure of the model but I'm fairly certain it's quite old. I'm not sure what to do with it but wanted to make some use of it. I did think of turning it into a printer server but thought that was quite boring/sensible. Does anyone have any suggestions (bonus…
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Magic eye and need a new tv.
Hi folks, I have a 39 inch JVC tv about nine years old, and when I switched it on today, we noticed that there is a horizontal line about a quarter of the way down from top on screen, above the line the picture is perfectly normal, but below the line the picture is still visible but is tinged with a sort of orangey colour.…
