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Lcn Has Changed

The above nonsense is regularly being flashed on my TV screen by the dion freeview box. Has been doing for a few days. The Net tells me that it is about local channel numbers. Rescanning has no...
20:43 Fri 09th Oct 20157 answers, last by jgraley 09:00 Tue 24th Oct 2017
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Safe Mode

How do I ensure my Win7 boots into Safe Mode (preferably from the off state). And why do websites apparently think it hilarious to suggest F8 when they must know that just brings up a list of devices...
11:43 Fri 14th Aug 201512 answers, last by whiskeryron 09:34 Sat 15th Aug 2015
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Urgent - Drawer Removal

Time critical question here. Does anyone know anything about sliding drawers/runners and how to remove them ? All jokes aside; I am trying to move a writing bureau from one upstairs room to another....
16:48 Thu 30th Jul 201512 answers, last by Old_Geezer 08:30 Sat 01st Aug 2015
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Normal.dot

Ok this is getting me most put out now. Been going on too long, and would be worse if I actually turned the PC off every day. Every time I restart or shut down it pauses making the ludicrous claim...
08:26 Sat 18th Jul 201510 answers, last by Old_Geezer 21:39 Thu 03rd Sep 2015
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Not A Question, More A Surprise

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33378778 Good for them. a more ridiculous law is difficult to find. Makes me wonder what percentage of the planet's nations have this law anyway. (I suppose...
15:39 Fri 03rd Jul 201520 answers, last by mibn2cweus 17:38 Thu 23rd Jul 2015
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A Long Tapering Piece Of Wood

Anyone any ideas on making that job of creating the above as easily as possible ? The thing is that a fence panel blew out its top left corner from the concrete post in the recent high winds, and on...
10:02 Sun 10th May 201514 answers, last by Old_Geezer 10:20 Fri 25th Mar 2016
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Screen Issue

I am seeing large black characters all over monitor screen 2. I do not know why or how to fix it. They appear over the wallpaper or over any application window opened. It first happened last weekend,...
10:11 Sat 25th Apr 20154 answers, last by Old_Geezer 07:37 Mon 27th Apr 2015
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Just Curious

When I was a kid my parents had mint growing in our back garden. Used to be regularly used each weekend for the mint sauce to go with the lamb. As I recall it was a short plant, dark ragged leaves....
09:58 Tue 07th Apr 20157 answers, last by Old_Geezer 13:34 Tue 07th Apr 2015
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Olympus S Z - 1 1

Anyone have experience of this camera and can tell me how to stop it "gluing" 2 photos together as one each time ? I'm unsure why the manufacture thinks it funny to have it do this and then provide...
08:12 Mon 06th Apr 20156 answers, last by Old_Geezer 10:51 Mon 06th Apr 2015
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Stair Repair

Anyone know how to easily replace a stair riser ? Web pages I've found seem to suggest removing the tread above it, but that's not on as treads & risers are keyed into the string. They also suggest it...
10:06 Thu 02nd Apr 20156 answers, last by Old_Geezer 11:15 Sun 05th Apr 2015
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Dark Game Screen Issue

Game playing with far too dark a screen. Given I’ve scoured the Web for an answer already I appreciate I’m probably clutching at straws here, but you never know who may come up with an answer....
14:44 Tue 17th Feb 201511 answers, last by BillyMilligan 16:31 Wed 18th Jan 2017
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Router Wireless Settings

My woman has been having issues with her router, with it frequently & suddenly not working and in need of a power cycle. So she has just bought a Netgear DGND3700 N600, and I've been roped in to sort...
11:44 Sun 08th Feb 20157 answers, last by methyl 00:32 Mon 09th Feb 2015
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Sheding Light On More Quantum Weirdness ?

Changing the shape of a photon ?!? What will they think of next ? Is nothing impossible ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30944584 When I first saw the story on teletext they...
08:39 Fri 23rd Jan 20153 answers, last by Matheous-2 20:02 Sun 25th Jan 2015
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Ni Contributions

Unsure which forum is best as I didn't spot a 'government' or 'taxation' one, so I'll try here. One possibility I may face during the next year is to be unemployed, at an age when for sure I'm not...
11:02 Sun 04th Jan 201533 answers, last by EDDIE51 22:42 Sun 04th Jan 2015
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Neighbour Building Over The Boundary

I know of someone who has a property that they let out. Recently they discovered that the older neighbours next door had died, and the property was bought by someone hoping to do it up and sell on....
13:48 Fri 12th Dec 20148 answers, last by Old_Geezer 21:29 Fri 12th Dec 2014
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Disappointing Finale

Just want to rant, I need to moan somewhere and here seems good. Some years back I bought a PC game called Dragon Age Origins. I hadn't bought a computer game in some while as so few seemed worth it...
19:22 Thu 27th Nov 20144 answers, last by Old_Geezer 17:00 Fri 28th Nov 2014
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Winter Fuel Payment

Just realised I promised a friend to ask a question for them here and it slipped my mind. Is someone in England entitled to the Winter Fuel Payment if they have deferred their State Pension ? On using...
22:27 Thu 20th Nov 20144 answers, last by Old_Geezer 00:22 Fri 21st Nov 2014
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Water Fall

Any ideas what might cause the following ? My woman owns a Peugeot 208. Out of sheer chance she spotted that it was dropping water under the car yesterday as it was stopped next to the pump at the...
19:52 Sat 25th Oct 20147 answers, last by Old_Geezer 10:25 Sun 26th Oct 2014
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Black What ?

http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1409.1837 I've been of the opinion that the amount of science in the recent threads here has been small, so I offer the above link for discussion. No real question, save...
12:45 Fri 17th Oct 201410 answers, last by jim360 13:49 Fri 17th Oct 2014
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Hover To Drive Your Blood Pressure Through The Roof And Have A Stroke.

May I request in the strongest possible terms that these deliberately aggravating ads that await the mouse to rest above them unnoticed and then expand in order to deliberately make one apoplectic,...
14:45 Fri 05th Sep 20141 answer, last by methyl 00:43 Tue 09th Sep 2014

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