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Technical Help / Phone call from Amazon - but is it a scam?
« on: Wednesday 02 October 19 12:51 BST (UK)  »
     I just received a phone call from Amazon, and someone said my account had been compromised and I had to press one.     I didn't press one.      I tried to phone Amazon but they say they are no longer using their usual telephone number so I can't contact them.      Anyone know if this is likely to be a scam?       Also, does anyone know their phone number so that I can check if it was one of their people who phoned me?
                                                       

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Technical Help / HP printer has stopped working
« on: Saturday 28 September 19 17:32 BST (UK)  »
       I use an HP Deskjet 3634 printer on Windows 10.      It has suddenly stopped working.    When I go to Print something, I get HP Deskjet 3630 series ... Status: Attention required.      File sharing is turned off.      Some network computers and devices might not be visible.      Click to change...

       Now it gives the choice of two things:
        1 Turn on network discovery and file sharing.
        2 Open Network and file sharing.

         Not sure which to choose. 

         P.S.   I just clicked Network down in the right corner, and it has: "Direct - BB - HP default 3630 series.     Secured."     ...Should this not be at "Open"

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Technical Help / Unable to get started with a Google account
« on: Monday 12 August 19 18:51 BST (UK)  »
       I have been trying to sign up for a google account without any success.     I want to keep my emails as they are and don't want to be involved with Gmails in any way at all.     ...So I bring up the site: accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail.     

    ...I type in my email address and name and password, and click "Create An Account".       I am now supposed to give the code number it has sent to my email page.     But if I go to open up my emails page and write down the code number... then try to log in to google with it, it still has Create An Account and if I click that it resends another number.
What am I doing wrong?         

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Technical Help / HP Deskjet Printer3634
« on: Sunday 09 June 19 11:04 BST (UK)  »
     I bought a new Windows 10 HP Celeron Laptop last week, and it is up and running fine, but there are problems with an HP Deskjet printer, which my sister gave me.      ....When I was using my old Windows 7 computer, whenever I wanted to scan a photo, I simply went to Devices and Printers, and scanned a photo to my computer from there.        Can't do that now.      I am not familiar with the HP printer.     I have no instructions for it.       I have no idea what the array of buttons on the left side of the HP printer are for.       It was a Dell 924 I had previously.       

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Technical Help / How do I get rid of a pink coloured Taskbar?
« on: Monday 20 May 19 15:38 BST (UK)  »
        I want rid of the colour (pink) from my Task bar.     I am still on Windows 7, and using Firefox browser.     I simply want to change it back to white, the way it was before.
   
        I have tried going to Start, then Settings then Personalization.      I am almost certain I do it on this page but I don't see how to continue.     Anyone have any ideas?

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Lanarkshire / Grandfather at either Coatdyke Hospital or Coatmill Hospital
« on: Tuesday 12 March 19 08:12 GMT (UK)  »
    Just before he died in 1962, my grandfather, John P Martin, was living at a place called Merrystone House, Coatbridge.      I suspect that was an old folks Care Home - does anyone know if that is right?

  ....Before that, I remember visiting him in a hospital at Coatdyke, and up until now I have always thought that it was Coatdyke Hospital, but I see on the map there is Coathill Hospital.        Is there, or was there, also a Coatdyke Hospital?      If there wasn't, then it must have been Coathill Hospital I visited.     Would just like to know.
 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Kenneth Martin image.
« on: Tuesday 26 February 19 20:09 GMT (UK)  »
      I just wondered if it might be possible to improve this terribly worn out photo of my father, Kenny Martin, in the cockpit of a plane.       He was in the RAF from 1936 to 1946.       Perhaps it could be cropped at the bottom up to where that shadow begins......

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Technical Help / Virus on my computer
« on: Saturday 15 December 18 20:10 GMT (UK)  »
       

         I had Reimage security trying to get me to join up with them, saying my computer had a virus.       I didn't bother.      I think they get you alarmed because they want to scare you into signing up for their security AT A PRICE!

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Renfrewshire / Anyone know about Strone Villa?
« on: Friday 31 August 18 22:02 BST (UK)  »
     An ancestor of mine was a nurse at Strone Villa in the Gourock area.     She is on the 1911 Census as a Nurse, although she was actually a qualified midwife.    I am trying to find out what kind of place Strone Villa was.    Head of the house in 1911 was a David Arthur, 80, a retired Manufacturing Chemist, a daughter living with him along with two baby grandsons. 

     Would like to know the address of this Strone Villa and if it still exists.    Is "Strone" the name of a district at Gourock?     

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