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Technical Help / Re: Windows Defender alert - but is it a scam?
« on: Thursday 16 March 23 22:47 GMT (UK)  »
Gadget,
             I have Wise Disk Cleaner!      I think it may be similar to the PC Cleaner site which you attached to your message.       I had forgotten about the Wise Disk Cleaner, as it's so long since I used it.
 
             I am going to try it in the morning.       Jebber, - thanks.      Should have known these two sites might sort it but it is quite a while since I have had laptop problems.

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Technical Help / Re: Windows Defender alert - but is it a scam?
« on: Thursday 16 March 23 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
Gadget,
            It gives me a telephone number to contact.      I pop into lots of things, like I might google  Video of 1920's Jazz, or the Ancestry site where I have traced my folks back a couple of hundred years, or a Chess site where I can get a game to pass the time.     There are lots of other sites that I might visit but only once in a blue moon, so to speak.

            Any idea how I can get rid of it?    It usually appears just after I leave a site, rather than before.     I was wondering if it will disappear the next time Windows does an update(?).     I am wary of clicking delete on the scam page, or the X, seemingly to delete the page for good.   Anyway, glad to know it is a scam.       Very helpful!

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Technical Help / Windows Defender alert - but is it a scam?
« on: Thursday 16 March 23 20:23 GMT (UK)  »
         I am getting a message (not an email) -- a page that says Windows Defender - System Warning.   Critical Threat Detected: Ardware App.

         Then, on a white background, another message that says: Confirm the action on the page https://     Access to this PC has been disabled.   Please contact support.

          And ...   Get Help   Dismiss

          I think it must be a scam.    For a start, it says that the PC has been disabled - BUT MY LAPTOP IS GOING PERFECTLY WELL!     Also, I have had several problems on the laptop, going back 15 years but Defender has never contacted me once.     I have McAffee as well for security but there has been no warning from them about anything being wrong.

          Am I right in thinking it is a scam?      I don't want to click anything on the page in case this is just what they need to get into my computer.

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Technical Help / Re: HP Printer not working ---fixed.
« on: Saturday 18 February 23 20:03 GMT (UK)  »
     Managed to fix it.    The Troubleshooter said "A print job in the print queue is preventing other jobs from being printed."     Then it said fixed.

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Technical Help / HP Printer not working
« on: Saturday 18 February 23 18:55 GMT (UK)  »
I have an HP Deskjet 3634 Printer.     The on off button is flashing on and off and I can't print or scan anything.     I am using Windows 10 with Firefox browser.     Earlier on I replaced the two ink cartridges, and when I tried to use the printer it wasn't working.     I think it has lost its connection with my laptop.      Is there an easy way to get back to normal?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering 1921 Census – Scotland
« on: Friday 27 January 23 19:04 GMT (UK)  »
      I also think it is Suwalki, Poland.    It is just west of present day Lithuania, north of the Podlaskie area.     Krasnopol is next to Suwalki.     This is from an The Times , Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition.

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Lanarkshire / Re: The "Rat Pit" model in Glasgow Muse Lane
« on: Monday 23 January 23 13:58 GMT (UK)  »
r05575,
            In 1902, the residents of Muse Lane were...

                  Number 3: Mrs Jane Kinloch
                             25: Mrs Helen Campbell
                             60: Isabella Docherty
                             44: Mrs Margaret Polland

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Dundee Society of Spiritualists, 1940
« on: Saturday 07 January 23 00:04 GMT (UK)  »
         Wallbanger,
                           Chester St is on the north side of Shettleston Rd, and South Chester St is  directly opposite on south side of Shettleston Rd.     I had a haircut at the corner of South Chester St and Shettleston Rd just the other day.    In the old days the tram cars used to rattle along Shettleston Road, and Shettleston Rd was always a great place for small shops.    There was always a great hustle and bustle in Shettleston Road back then.

          Monica,
                      My grandmother's maiden name was Holmes and she married Harry Widdop in 1913. This is the Evelyn Widdop who wrote the poem about the first world war.  The Widdop family actually lived in the house where I am living now        Grandmother is buried at St John's Episcopal church in Baillieston, and so are my parents. 

         

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Dundee Society of Spiritualists, 1940
« on: Friday 06 January 23 21:29 GMT (UK)  »
    Wallbanger,
                     Thanks for your comments.       My grandmother lived in tenements in various streets just off the Gallowgate from 1921 up until 1928.      About two hundreds yards east of Parkhead Cross on Tollcross Road, there is an very old Salvation Army building, and I suspect that is the place she was attending.     

         In 1928, she managed to get a semi detached house about two miles east of Parkhead.             

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