We've got a Tidy Tent - a thing to keep bikes, etc in in the garden. It works perfectly, but is covered in some sort of green algae, which looks unsightly and probably isn't doing much good to the...
A German language student has brought his car to Britain and is driving it on his own insurance. He is studying at a language school in Britain and would like to drive his teacher somewhere during...
I've had my monstera for over 20 years - although the current version is a cutting of the original, which I probably made about 15 years ago. The problem is that every year it grows one leaf and loses...
I set up a gmail address for my mother so she could use her new iPad. Because she had no computer, I set it up on my computer. Now my mum's Google+ profile appears on the black strip at the top of my...
My mother, a young 84-year-old, wants to get an iPad. She's not computer literate, but is game to try. Obviously, this will mean that she needs to get a broadband connection - and she's decided BT's...
I've had a new Dell Inspiron running Windows 8 for three weeks now, with no problems until today. I tried shutting it down, which happened, but it immediately restarted again, for no reason that I...
We are having problems with our TV. The Freeview signal was fine during the day, but slipping at night. This morning we got up and found there was no signal at all on the TV - in fact, it was...
More Freeview problems: We have good reception on Freeview during the day, but in the evenings it starts breaking up on all but the BBC channels. Sometimes, indeed, there is no signal at all on...
Before the analogue shut-off, we could receive no Freeview channels here on the south coast of England. However, when Freeview was rolled out here, we got most of them, including Sky News. We also had...
We've recently changed ISP. The internet seems to be much slower than before. However, I can't remember what the connection speed was. When I go to the Wireless Network Connection icon, I get the...
For some reason, it's not possible to find Henderson Road (for example) in Portsmouth on the Garmin Nuvi 1300 by putting 'Portsmouth' in the 'city' slot of the 'Where To?' screen. Instead, I seem to...
We still have a store of old floppy disks that we would like to access on occasion. I have an external floppy drive (from Dell) with a USB connection. However, on Windows 7 it isn't recognised. I'm...
We're a bit fed-up with our usual New Year's Eve and would like to do something a little different this year. We're looking for somewhere not too far from Poole/Bournemouth where we can have a good...
My 81-year-old mother likes travelling by coach, but changes are a little difficult for her. Is there any way of finding out (and e-mailing them directly produced only a 'this is how you book a...
My niece will be turning 11 in a couple of weeks' time. Being an artisitic young thing, when she was given a basic digital camera last Christmas, she took some very good snaps. However, now she's got...
I have a Sansa Express mp3 player and used to be able to play the music through my PC and laptop. I tried to do this yesterday, but failed. Windows Media Player opened, as usual, but didn't recognise...
My memory sticks all seem to have the above viruses. The computers are catching them when I put the sticks in, but I'd like to know how to remove the viruses from the memory sticks. We have Symantec...
During WW2, a Polish airman named Baraslav Kajowski and his son Wictor were billeted with my grandparents in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. How would I go about finding out more about Baraslav?
I'm trying to network our three computers so that they can share documents and printer. The computers are all on the same internet network, accessing through a wireless router (PC wired, laptops...
We've got a printer wired to a PC which runs Windows XP. We also have two laptops, one on XP and the other on Windows 7. The PC is wired to a router and the laptops connect wirelessly. I'd like to be...