My mum has been told during her annual central heating inspection that there is not enough ventilation in the house and needs an airbrick or window vent to keep within the regulations. Trickle vents...
Mrs H couldn’t get the car in gear this morning and said the clutch felt floppy. It has been absolutely fine until now, no warning signs that it’s on the way out. Our breakdown people have taken...
I have an electric fire that I want to wire in permanently and hide the flex behind the wall. I know I can put in a spur with a fused switch and do it that way, but there is already a double socket in...
I recently reinstalled windows 7 from scratch on my Dell laptop using the key provided on the sticker on the bottom. Everything went fine and I happily used it for a week or so when it decided that...
Hi all, I’ve inherited a Vespa scooter and fancy keeping it as a bit of a toy but won’t be using it very frequently, probably only every few months. It’s about 5 years old and...
I have an old desktop PC that I’m going to reuse, but want to beef up the RAM first. The motherboard is ASRock P4I45D which I’ve checked out on their website and supports up to 2gb of RAM,...
I'm after some opinions here. We had some "ethical hackers" in at work today to show how rubbish we all are at keeping safe online and how easy it is to do naughty stuff if you want to....
I’m selling my old mobile on ebay. It ends Friday evening and has got a fair few watchers so far with the bidding currently at about £30. Other similar phones have gone for about...
My wife had an accident, her fault, and the car is in for repair. She paid extra on her policy for a 'guaranteed hire car' even if it's her fault, so they took the car away to repair and left us with...
We're slightly worried that our daughter is doing too much gym and I wondered what other people's experiences are. She 7 and is quite good - she's in the 'elite' squad at her gym and trains with the...
I can't get my laptop to connect to my router. All has been fine for a couple of years, but now all I get is 'limited connectivity' and it looks like it won't give me a proper IP address. I've tried...
Can I get a relatively small (19" or so) flat screen TV that will double as a PC monitor? It's for my mother in law who is a bit of a technophobe, so it will need to be a bog-standard analogue TV (no...
I've got broadband up and running for my mother in law over the weekend, wireless router (Ethernet connection to her desktop, but wireless is enabled) with filters on the PC connection and main phone....
I had an accident with a lorry going round a roundabout. I'm sure it was his fault but the insurance companies have not decided that yet, and I reckon they might go 50-50 as there were no witnesses....
I've just been knocked back for a low-rate Barclaycard and can't work out why. I've got my credit reports and the only indiscretion is going over my overdraft limit once about six months ago (the bank...
If I go into task manager (windows xp) I can increase the priority of a particular process so that it runs faster, or at least doesn't slow down as much when multi-tasking. Can I change something...
Over a year ago, I completed an online survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Dell with the promise of a ?20 incentive, which I'm yet to receive. They respond now and then with excuses about losing...
I have a standalone DVD recorder that has given up the ghost so I intend to take it back and demand a repair or replacement. It's out of the 12 month guarantee but I intend to exercise my rights under...
Anyone know if you can get an FM transmitter that will work both with the ipod's power (for indoors) and will also charge the ipod when plugged in to the car's cigarette lighter? I know you can get...
I had McAfee pre-installed on my Dell laptop and the subscription runs out soon. I plan to replace it with AVG and Zone Alarm. Anyone had any issues getting rid of McAfee? Some other software bundled...
