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My wife has a Galaxy S5 which has superb wifi performance, she can connect to and hold wifi hotspots that my Xperia Z1 cannot connect to at all. I'm looking to upgrade to the Galaxy S6 (I know about the battery and microSD card issues) but I'm concerned that the metal case of the S6 (compared to...

This is an usual request and I'm making it because I've never used homeplugs and so I know nothing about their reliability, availability, or performance, but I'm wondering whether they might be a solution to a problem. The marina I'm in on Crete uses wifi to provide free Internet access. We...

Apologies if this is already well known, I only came across it the other day and a forum search didn't show it on here. My Windows 10 login has been incredibly slow, especially for a laptop with Windows on an SSD. It would take around 15 seconds from entering the password to getting to the...

....getting a letter out of the blue about a pension you didn't know you even had and finding it's worth over £18,000. :clap: I think I might be directing some of that PCS's way.......

The Geforce forum here and the Windows 10 forum here both suggest that the GPU switching and freezing issue with Windows 10 and NVIDIA Optimus is now fixed. The Geforce forum (post #114) has a user with almost the same setup as me (Clevo Optimus IV - he has the 17" I have the 15.6") with Intel...

I've just been told that by law you have to use your headlights when it's raining in Sweden. As I want to remain a law-abiding citizen, could someone please let me know when it's raining in Sweden? :whistling:

As always, many apologies if this is already well known, but it was new to me. I did a forum search but didn't come across a reference to this. I don't use IE as my main browser, and haven't done for many years, but there are odd occasions when I'll fire it up for this or that. For those that...

Sophos Labs have written a very comprehensive paper about the dangers of 'ransomware' with lots of info that may prove useful to anyone having to deal with it. The paper can be downloaded from...

I'm not sure whether this is of interest or even whether everyone already knows this stuff but just in case.... I subscribe to the Sophos NakedSecurity newsletters and this one on Steam security popped into my inbox today...

I'm fixing an HP notebook for a friend. He upgraded from Windows 8 (pre-installed) to Windows 10 and his wireless card isn't connecting. He claims it was working ok immediately after the upgrade, of course he's "done nothing" and it's just stopped working (where have we heard that before?). I've...

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A bit tongue in cheek this, but following the recent "worst customer service ever" threads on here I found this article in the Independent interesting. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scottish-power-offers-the-worst-customer-service-in-britain-10502562.html It would appear to be...

For the first time I'm dismayed at the actions of PCS. The thread at https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?44397-PCS-Unsafe-wiring-could-have-killed-me-Its-ok-tho-they-are-sorry/page2, if proven true, is extremely serious and I think it's unwise for a PCS employee to shut down the...

I thought it might be interesting to see people's experiences of installing Windows 10, so I've created this poll. If you wish to comment please add your PC/laptop type. I'm an Optimus IV (Clevo W35x_37xET). Windows 10 installed ok for me, none of the drivers that Windows update found would...

This might be normal behaviour but I wanted to check whether anyone else sees it. In Windows 10 (Pro) the mouse pointer becomes unresponsive when some system task is in progress. For example, if I empty a pretty full inbox the mouse pointer is completely unresponsive until the empty recycle bin...

This is Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer on the Apollo project. This is the source code for the Automatic Guidance System which she wrote. My guess is that it's almost certainly assembler code - hence the huge size. I was having fun writing assembler in the early 1970's too. Respect to...

As always, apologies if this was already well known, I've only just found out how to do this myself. :) Getting into safe mode in Windows 8/8.1 can be a problem, pressing F8 on boot doesn't bring up the familiar text menu containing Safe Mode etc. However, you can restore this behaviour with a...

A fellow boat owner in the marina here managed to drop his laptop into 6m of water a few days ago. It was in the sea for only 10 minutes or so before another yachtie dived in and fetched it out. Stupidly he just dried it out and then tried to power on, not surprisingly nothing worked. He's just...