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I tracked the domain provider who put me on to Melbourne IT. Then I had an online chat with Xerxes, who passed me to Ashani, who directed me to WebPanel and from there I got into the directory for our emails and was able to change passwords.

I feel like I have done a world trip. I now have my emails back and all the history for the past 20 or so years.

Next is the Tax File, but maybe I am better off without those !

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Iā€™ve been a staunch windows user probably anti mac for basically ever. I know they are good but can never justify the price gap even if they have a bit more longevity . my job just had tooany windows specific apps ECT I couldnā€™t be arsed with emulators ect . but because nearly everything is web based now including my job, I reckon Iā€™ll finally go to the dark side on my next one.

I juat got a new hp for around 1300ish and itā€™s great . fantastic battery life , display is decent , sound is decent ect not as flash as the high endacbook I know but good enough for now

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So Iā€™ve just had to buy a new home PC and after getting it set up, discovered that it doesnā€™t have Word or Excel on it.

I use both prgrams for really basic stuffā€¦making lists on either program.

When I went to open a spreadsheet and discovered that I didnā€™t have Excel, the computer pushed me to the following site:

which then led me to:

My question for those with far greater knowledge of this stuff isā€¦should I just sign in and use these options, or go and buy them?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Use an open source one, like Open Office or LibraOffice. I use Libra, opensource and free.

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If itā€™s basic and not sensitive just use the online versions.

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Iā€™d love to use Libreoffice, but sadly Iā€™ve found it unstable to the point of uselessness. And when it inevitably crashes, its autosave proves not to work.

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Once you have a trial edition of 365, you might bring it to life via a massgrave. :wink:

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I believe that you have to save your files to OneDrive with these apps. If that is not an issue and your needs are basic, they might be a good solution for you.

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If your Word/Excel needs are basic, is Google docs/sheets a free option?

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Thanks for all the responsesā€¦I just decided to go with what I know and bought the Microsoft Home Option.

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I have a little problem that I have only noticed after I replaced my modem with a eero one that I got from my ISP. This modem changed the subnet from 196.168.1.etc to 196.168.4.etc so everything on the network was readdressed.

I have an old Western Digital NAS box that I now cannot access files on although I can ping it, log onto it from a browser, get into the admin program on it and even look at photos etc through Twonky Media server.

My new laptop running Windows 11 cannot map it to a drive and the old Win10 PC canā€™t see the drives that were previously mapped to it now either.

Donā€™t know that the new modem is the culprit but may have caused something to go out of whack. Any clues?

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Does the modem have some sort of firewall functionality?

And what OS does the NAS run.

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Thanks, yes the modem has a firewall and the NAS runs a version of Linux.

I can ping it and logon to the admin program but canā€™t map drives and see the files that I have there.

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Hmm. My guess would be some security feature on the modem is specifically blocking what you want to do. And might need to tweak something

ChatGPT is normally pretty good at working out very specific tech issues like this.

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Thanks Iā€™ll have a look.

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Thanks for the tip HAP. It seems that something has turned off the SMB/network setting and re-enabling it and rebooting has solved the problem.

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I watched a stage of the TDF using my VPN to access the SBS coverage, and by mistake forgot to turn it off, and when I attempted to access my substack subscription it stated, that I needed to verify my ID. This is part of the silly social media laws for under 18ā€™s which is magnified when LEGALLY you canā€™t access substack articles which of course can be used as a learning tool for the under 16ā€™s. Then you canā€™t access Wikipedia which again is a learning tool. Of course this group will find ways to bypass the laws, but it shows how stupid politicians are in making laws and allowing themselves to be influenced by parents and the like.