Sorry for the verbose post... Acer 572 Laptop, Windows 10 I installed W10 a couple of weeks ago. All good, v happy with it. However, No biggie, but I'd like to be rid of 'Pokki'... This morning a new...
Due to panicking over the 'death' of XP (well, his PC was also pretty knackered), a while back my dad bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1 installed. In his prime he was a pretty smart cookie, but now...
So had a crappy day at work, talking to almost invariably annoying, irritating and obnoxious people on the phone. Is it weird that I find it cathartic talking to yet more random strangers (albeit as a...
When I curl my big toe with the foot extended (sorta 'pointing' with the foot if that makes sense) I get an intense burning sensation in the knuckle. I figured it would go away in time, but I've had...
Just had the above message when I clicked on around page 6 of a Google search. It has a 'captcha' question, with the note that "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network"....
Judging by recent posts this Radio section seems to be a bit of a ghost town, but here goes... I'm looking for suggestions that maybe I can find other than on the BBC Iplayer. Just to give a flavour...
Inspired by a comment in 'What I Have Read: May/june' http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Literature/Books-and-Authors/Question1341324.html What are the book buying habits of ABers? I've...
I've recently binned an old (dead) PC that's been sitting in the bottom of the wardrobe for maybe 10 years. Given its age, there's nothing too important on it but more out of interest than security...
Every once in a while the screen on my laptop goes blank, i.e. disappears completely. Neither moving the mouse nor clicking any keys gets it back. Sometimes shutting the lid & re-opening gets the...
I've currently got a guy in replacing the flat roof at the front of my flat. It's not a huge contract, but he turned up on time & seems to be making a good job of it (as far as I can tell anyway -...
First time q in Chatterbank (I normally hang out in Media & TV) & not sure it's the best place but I think it's the busiest board on the site, & I believe there may be some Spanish...
"Internet explorer has modified this page to help prevent cross-site scripting" Since upgrading to IE9, I constantly get this message but only (so far) on answerbank. Is it a problem with...
I should start by saying I have zero knowledge of horticulture :/ Just to see what would happen, I planted some seeds from some supermarket bought chillis in a pot, which previously had some (shop...
Can anyone recommend a free drawing program? I'm looking for something basic that can do simple shapes and diagrams. To be honest, it's the kind of thing I used to sketch on the back of a fag packet...