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Ventilation For Central Heating

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...
09:41 Mon 16th Sep 201313 answers, last by Hammer 11:43 Tue 17th Sep 2013
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Vauxhall Zafira Clutch

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...
10:47 Tue 16th Jul 20132 answers, last by SpikeyBush 23:02 Thu 18th Jul 2013
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Permanently Wiring In Electric Fire

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...
12:06 Mon 11th Feb 201313 answers, last by tezestwing 10:37 Tue 12th Feb 2013
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Validating Windows by Phone

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...
15:45 Fri 16th Nov 20124 answers, last by Hammer 12:38 Mon 19th Nov 2012
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Moped - Infrequent use

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...
12:25 Thu 06th Sep 201210 answers, last by Hammer 12:43 Mon 10th Sep 2012
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RAM upgrade

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,...
10:13 Tue 03rd Apr 20127 answers, last by galeck1947 01:57 Wed 04th Apr 2012
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Free antivirus

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....
17:15 Fri 04th Nov 20119 answers, last by Mobius1 13:49 Mon 07th Nov 2011
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Ebay - Sending to Portugal

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...
08:47 Thu 06th Oct 20115 answers, last by Beswad 02:36 Fri 07th Oct 2011
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How long is reasonable?

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...
11:35 Mon 12th Oct 200911 answers, last by Hammer 07:52 Wed 14th Oct 2009
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Any gymnastics parents out there?

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...
10:44 Thu 11th Jun 20096 answers, last by kippyboo 02:57 Thu 18th Jun 2009
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Knackered Router?

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...
12:01 Wed 01st Apr 200917 answers, last by Hammer 22:09 Thu 02nd Apr 2009
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TV & PC monitor

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...
20:15 Wed 04th Jun 20083 answers, last by vehelpfulguy 05:51 Thu 05th Jun 2008
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Crackly phone after broadband installation

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....
15:47 Mon 19th May 20088 answers, last by Hammer 12:46 Wed 21st May 2008
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Deciding whether to claim

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....
12:14 Fri 11th Apr 20086 answers, last by gouldc 09:33 Mon 14th Apr 2008
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Credit worthiness

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...
12:15 Thu 29th Nov 20076 answers, last by Hammer 11:38 Tue 04th Dec 2007
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Task priorities

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...
20:47 Wed 29th Aug 20072 answers, last by Hammer 21:14 Wed 29th Aug 2007
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Payment for Ipsos / Dell survey?

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...
15:49 Wed 11th Jul 2007
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Best way to get a repair?

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...
14:01 Thu 17th May 20073 answers, last by Hammer 11:06 Fri 18th May 2007
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iTrip with OPTIONAL car charger

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...
10:26 Thu 12th Apr 20073 answers, last by Sad Minger 17:13 Fri 13th Apr 2007
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Getting rid of McAfee

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...
16:33 Thu 15th Mar 20071 answer, last by plaffan 18:46 Thu 15th Mar 2007

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