Computer questions you'd be embarrassed to ask any where else!

Kat1170 wrote: »

Ok did (almost) all the above and it made a small difference*, but ever onward as they say.
Anyone like to recommend an SSD. Considering this one but am open to other opinions. TIA


*about the same as the defrag and av scan I run every week or two.

Crucial BX200 is about €20 cheaper. I don't think it comes with the upgrade pack, but if you want to reinstall Windows freshly onto the new SSD then it doesn't matter.

looksee wrote: »

Just out of interest, what is an SSD?

Solid State Drive,no moving parts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Hiya, hoping I can get an explanation on this one .... the friend request icon was lit up on my FB page so I thought I had a friend request. When I clicked on it, it said X has accepted your friend request.

However, I never sent X a friend request?!

The closest I came to X was sharing a Youtube video that he is in (he's a street performer) to a friend's timeline.

So how has X been able to generate a friend request from my page to his - which he then accepts, automatically making you friends whether you want to or not??

I know I can unfriend X but this is a bit unsettling. And I don't want to ask FB because I don't trust 'em!

Thanks!

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I am often amazed at the people who pop up on my FB page. I don't really do the FB thing, I just 'follow' particular sites for updates on things that interest me. FB asked me recently if I know this particular woman. I do know her, but how the heck she appeared on my FB page I have no idea. I have no communication with her online whatsoever. FB is too clever by half.

Exactly why I closed my account. I still get emails that x, y and z have sent friend requests eventhough I don't have an account anymore....:D

And, Linkedin will be next as they are up to the same dirt.....:mad:

On starting Windows 10the screen appears with box in centre for password. On a few occasions I've clicked, planning to insert password, in the wrong place and with the cursor/arrow outside the box. Screen freezes, cant unfreeze, cant type password even with cursor in correct place. Tried right clicking, Cltrl+Alt+Delete but no change. Eventually after leaving a number of hours to run down power or turning off for more than two hours, I can re-open (and type in password)
My two queries are
1. Why is it happening as I just clicked on a random part of the Windows screen. Is my click sending a message that the system doesn't understand?
2. Is there any quicker way of correcting it as waiting a few hours can be wasteful?
Thanks in advance, you helpful people.

Thank you looksee xx

This has been doing my head in all day (and I literally mean ALL DAY): I have a Kodak ESP C315 All-In-One printer (printer/scanner/fax) which I've had for years. Every so often, it gets stroppy and I have to delete and re-add it, then all will be well. But at the moment, it will print wirelessly, but it won't scan wirelessly. It IS connected to the Wifi:



I've done all the googling, I've removed and re-added it, I've turned everything possible off and then on again (even things that have nothing to do with the computer! :P), I've re-downloaded the printer drivers. This has happened before, but it was a couple of years ago and I don't remember how I solved the problem (it was random key-mashing, like I've been trying today).

My laptop is HP, running Windows 10. Please help! If you can solve this for me, I promise I will NEVER recommend you as an IT expert to any of my friends/family

looksee wrote: »

I have just tried to log into my electric ireland account online, and I keep getting 'your connection is not private, attackers may be trying to steal your information, the link is NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID. And it says the cert is invalid. However when I checked the security thing on Electric Ireland (the lock on the HTTP bit) it says the cert is valid. (seems a bit unlikely that ee would not be up to date). So how do I get round this. I was offered the option of going to ee though it was marked 'unsafe'. Any advice anyone? I did a bit of googling but I did not understand the instructions (and there were a lot of very suspect videos too!)

Could just be an issue with the site. Try again in a while or as the other poster says try a different browser.

Check the date is set correctly on your computer

Yes, just checked the site ..... it is a site problem ...... it seems they have closed access to prevent any bad things happening.

looksee wrote: »

Thanks for your answers. Yes, one of the places I looked said to check the date, and it was correct. Will wait and see what happens on the site as I have never had problems with it before.

It's just down for maintenance, if you use chrome you can bypass the security warning and you will see this.

It should propably be mentioned in this thread (or maybe it is already) that there are quite a number of scam emails being sent out in the past few months.
Some, like ElectricIreland, have warned their customers about this specifically.
Others like eir do not seem to care ........ it is within their power to kill such emails before they get delivered to their eircom.net email customers, but they do not do so!

In any case I wanted to point out that scam emails are plentiful these days, and you should NEVER access ANY account by clicking on a link in an email.

Scam emails I recall receiving recently

electric ireland
irish water
revenue commissioners

and others which are obviously scams such as ones referring to my student card/status

There are ways to tell from whom the email came ......... use that information to protect yourself.