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Windows 10 Pokki

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...
19:20 Sat 29th Aug 20157 answers, last by gettinblurry 11:58 Sun 30th Aug 2015
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Windows 8.1 To Earlier Version

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...
17:31 Sat 27th Sep 20144 answers, last by janbee 08:11 Sun 28th Sep 2014
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Talking To Random Strangers...

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...
00:02 Thu 31st Jul 201421 answers, last by Slapshot 00:46 Thu 31st Jul 2014
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Toe Problem

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...
22:31 Wed 30th Jul 201410 answers, last by gettinblurry 17:01 Sun 03rd Aug 2014
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Google - To Continue, Please Type The Characters Below:

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"....
22:25 Fri 13th Jun 20147 answers, last by gettinblurry 23:29 Fri 13th Jun 2014
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Any Radio Drama/comedy Recommendations

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...
22:41 Fri 06th Jun 201426 answers, last by Jomlett 21:56 Fri 13th Jun 2014
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Where Do You Get Your Books?

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...
22:18 Wed 04th Jun 201444 answers, last by BookPal 06:51 Wed 13th Nov 2019
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Old Pc Hard Drive

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...
19:14 Sun 01st Jun 20145 answers, last by gettinblurry 19:35 Mon 02nd Jun 2014
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Blank Screen On Laptop

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...
22:08 Sat 05th Apr 20142 answers, last by gettinblurry 22:26 Sat 05th Apr 2014
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Birdsong

Did I skip the boring bits in the book or is this not a good adaptation?
22:59 Sun 22nd Jan 201239 answers, last by Stargazer 23:44 Tue 24th Jan 2012
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Tips for builders

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 -...
12:08 Sat 10th Sep 201117 answers, last by craft1948 17:34 Sat 10th Sep 2011
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Puertorican Spanish language q

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...
22:36 Fri 15th Apr 201116 answers, last by MarkRae 23:52 Fri 15th Apr 2011
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IE9 Modified page cross-site scripting?

"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...
11:06 Sat 19th Mar 20114 answers, last by gettinblurry 21:26 Sun 20th Mar 2011
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Growing chillis from seed...

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...
12:33 Sat 01st Jan 20115 answers, last by gettinblurry 13:30 Sat 01st Jan 2011
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Drawing program

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...
13:36 Mon 03rd May 20105 answers, last by another-view 12:23 Tue 04th May 2010

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