Most antivirus available to the public for free or even small cost does 4/5ths if ■■■■ all. windows defender and not click every link goes a long way, sprinkle on some device specific of network wife and blocking and stress levels go down
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Tell her about Adrian dodoro
Thank you @simmo41 , did as you suggested and my Quickbooks is back !!!
I have also deleted Norton.
You are now my Computor God !!!
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Remember everyone when you have tech issues forget your younger relatives go to tech support simmo
I’m also a big fan of just Windows Defender for antivirus.
Although I also install Malwarebytes free, and set it not to start with Windows. If you do get malware, it’s better than most at removing bugs, and protects itself from malware better than most. If I suspect a malware infection, I’ll run a full scan with Malwarebytes.
I’m also a big fan of backups. For me, backup is king. If your whole operating system is regularly backed up, with a good backup program, it doesn’t really matter if all your files are encrypted and you can’t access anything. You can simply restore to your last save point.
Acronis True Image is still my go to program. Unfortunately, they have shifted to a subscription only model, so there aren’t any single purchase options anymore. However, Acronis True Image can create a Linux partition on your computer (or external drive), where it can store all backups. The advantage of this is that Windows can’t natively read anything on a Linux partition, so malware can’t encrypt your backups. I usually install a hard drive internally, and set up a daily incremental backup, and keep 60-90 days of daily backups, so individual files, or the entire system, can be restored as it was on any day up to 60-90 days previous.
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Really late response here, but @Robin_Close knows what he’s talking about. And for someone like him, replacing the appropriate capacitors will cost all of a few dollars.
I tried that once with an old TV, and told my son, “This will either work, or go Bang!”. It was a very loud bang!
For those less gifted with a soldering iron, like myself, you can usually buy a whole replacement power board, which is what I did with that old TV, and it’s still working now, many years later. It doesn’t get used a whole lot anymore, but sits in a corner, attached to the kids’ very old Nintendo Wii, and still does the job.
I may be speaking out of turn, but knowing @Robin_Close , he’d probably fix your TV if you arranged to get it to him, and covered the few dollars of capacitors and solder, and perhaps threw in a decent red.
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Thanks, just ended up buying a new one. Still haven’t yet tossed out the old one, but most likely will.
On the new tv, the sound quality isn’t a patch on that of the previous one. Bought a sound bar last week (different place to where I bought the tv), and the bloke said that in order to cram more ‘smart’ features into new tvs, manufacturers have basically skimped on the sound.
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what a ridiculous comment, the truth is tvs are extremely thin these days and the small speakers they do have are at the bottom facing downwards.
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Happy to look at it for you. Don’t throw it out. Send me a PM if you like.
And thanks for the kind words @Glu
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Anyone know much about esims?
I have an iPhone 12, on an Aldi plan with a physical sim.
I’d like to add an eSIM so that I can have my work phone number and data attached to the same device. And I’ll just toggle between which number I use.
Does the phone or the physical sim dictate if I can add an eSIM?
Currently if I try to import an eSIM, it won’t work, and I don’t believe the Aldi sim can be converted to an eSIM.
eSIMs are chips so it’s hardware dependant, the phone itself has to actually support it
The iPhone 12 supports both physical and eSIM at once, but I don’t think aldi does eSIM at all
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Both handset and network provider have to support eSim.
iPhone 12 - yes
ALDi - no
edit: what he said
I think this is my problem.
I am trying to add eSIM, and it’s saying contact the network provider.
So I think my solution is to change to one of the big telcos (that support eSIM) with my current personal number. Then import the other eSIM from my work phone.
In the meantime I am using a Samsung A55. It’s a pretty decent phone. Got a lovely camera, and I do like that I can change the font size and colour of the time on the Home Screen.
Samsung A55 does support eSIM’s. Think I’ve got the same phone.
If I understand you correctly, you’re trying to add your work phone number to an eSIM on your iPhone 12?
If so, your ALDI personal number should stay, as is, on the phone, but you may need help from whoever handles the work phone accounts to authorise a change from the current eSIM on the Samsung, to the iPhone eSIM.
Your phone can only have one eSIM and one physical SIM active at the same time.
If your work was unwilling to be involved in changing your work number from their work phone eSIM to your personal phone, but were willing to issue you a physical SIM for your work phone instead of an eSIM, then you could change your personal number to an eSIM, and swap the physical SIM to and from your work phone as you choose. In that case, you’d have to give up the ALDI plan (could keep the number) for a carrier that supports eSIMs.
It does. (Sorry, I was unclear)
I want to use my personal iPhone 12, and bring across the work phone number and data entitlements to the iPhone.
I think this is the solution that will work best.
The work phone has a physical sim.
So the process would be. Change personal sim to the lowest cost eSIM with my personal number on my old personal phone.
Then simply put workphysical sim into my personal phone. (I have checked, simply putting the sim in works normally, it’s not locked to the Samsung that they supplied)
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Boost uses eSIM and is relatively cheap.
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iPhones picked out.
Now for the outrageously overpriced accessories…
Anyone got tips on screen protectors or cases. Need to withstand teenager wear and tear (but not look like a nerd)