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That is quite an accolade @noisette47 as they have produced quite a vast amount of **** over the years...@ricky101 - good advice, thank you. I confess, I generally use Crucial or Kingston for stuff like that as their stuff has been quite reliable so far.

The Huawei giga cube is a modern state of the art modem/router, that is capable of receiving fibre or phone network signal, I found out about it, when someone recommended it in place of their ISP standard modem, when the wireless signal is not very good, as the Huawei is far better at wirless...

I've got VLC player but not sure it is that great, I think I also have a windows player which pops up from time to time. As you say Flash player seemed more to do with certain websites or Ads wanting to use it.

Ahggg... Sorry, misread your post ! Old age again !!

There are video editers which can change audio and video,I've got Short cut and VSDC they're free but can be hard to use, mind boogling, not use audio on these but i've used the video sideLook on youtube to find out how to use them,There is also other editor out there as well

Recurring Payment is much less of an issue than it was, particularly if you do it using a credit card (gives you more protection) - most companies are very good at cancelling if and when you want to cancel, but in the event you do have an issue, you let the credit card provider sort it out.

Never, pete, never

I keep getting that message as well,using chrome.

Cheapskate!

Hi,Appreciate any advice/ comments on the following.1. Looking to use the CDRipper program ( as recommended by @Fat Controller ) to put about 30 CDs (pop) onto our PC, but not sure what is the best Format and Bit rate to use ? Would have used higher rates before, but these days seems the...

Alexa controls all the lights and technical equipment in my daughter's house. I was staying with them last Christmas and often last to bed. It would have been quicker to flip switches than battle Alexa to get the lights turned out.

Hey- Ho Seems like I pressed all the right keys. My details had been stored by skype, just had to use new password.. My name has come up as Michael Allen. I might change that to the familiar Mike Allen later. Anyway the face will be familiar.Thanks folks for your help.

Hi,Just better add to @Fat Controllers comment about "just unplugging" the usb drive.Do so, but only after you use the "Eject USB device" and get the "USB Safe to Disconnect" system message or you could loose some data.

Anyway ordered the smart one last night from Currys ,what a palarvour that was. I can't just go to the store and buy it I have to click and collect. But they deliver to their stores in the afternoons and I can't collect it till after 5pm on Friday, the store closes at 6PM. But I can...

Good choice, I am on an HP at the moment but a 2 year old Pavillion.

Hi,Not something we have done before and its a very long time since we even looked at video editing.Asking for help on what Free progam to use to help us create the video and upload it to Ytube ?Its only going to be a few minutes long and not looking to do any fancy graphics etc.The...

Well, I managed to install 2004 in just over an hour late last night but, on restarting, found I had lost my Internet connection It was too late last night to get into a search for the problem mode so I left it until this morning. I checked all the cables, reconnected the Router cables...

Hi @flamingjune ,Thanks for the reply, though things have changed since that post and we no longer need such connections, mainly as we are moving the cameras off the PC onto a dedicated DVR box which has all the modern bells and whistles, when we can get around to understanding them all 4CH...

Today' top tip:Bluetooth equipment can interfere with your 2.4Ghz wifi signal. Where you can - use 5Ghz wifi to avoid any problems.My new bluetooth speakers were causing havoc with the Fire TV - until I changed over to 5Ghz.

That takes me back. I visited the Cable and Wireless base on Ascension Island 57 years ago when I was working out that way.