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....having your new PC arrive on the day IKEA are delivering a big truckload of furniture for your new apartment. As far as my wife is concerned assembling her furniture is way more important than unboxing and testing my new PC, but then she knows full well that 'unboxing and testing' my new PC...

I'm sure everyone on here knows that the best protection against being infected by ransomware (and having all your files encrypted) is to take regular backups. These backups of course need to be to an external drive that is only connected to the PC during the backup run, otherwise it's at risk...

This is very much a 'toe in the water' spec and I'm not ordering yet. We're moving off the boat into an apartment in a few months (yes, for good) and I'll be able to get the desktop I always wanted but couldn't fit in the boat! I don't game but I do want to drive a smart HD TV as well as the PC...

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...