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    Are all sources of FREE Win 10 gone?

    My SIL has an Enterprise copy of Win 10 on his laptop. My daughter worked for Texas Tech University and was allowed complimentary access. She quit in May to come home with new baby. My SIL is now getting a message that his Win 10 Enterprise will go away in 20 days. Due to my daughter's...
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    Smartphone protective screen guard?

    A short while ago I stepped up to a new Samsung S8 phone. I let the dealer sell me an overpriced screen guard with a lifetime warranty. In a few short weeks I have broken the guard twice. It's one of those warranties where all you pay is shipping and handling to replace it. I am sure that the...
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    Disolving burst battery corrosion?

    I have an aluminum black anodized LED flashlight that uses a 3 AAA battery carrier. I had to put it in a vice and use channel locks to remove the endcap. The endcap cleaned right up but the 3 battery carrier is glued in to the tube with white corrosion. I thought if I were to immerse the...
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    65 gr .380 ammunition.

    .380's have become pretty hot personal defense pieces. Some of the newer, most effective personal defense rounds no longer try to rely on hollow points that the cartridge does not have the poop to expand.....soooo, the industry has gone to lighter bullets, with good penetration, that create...
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    1977 omc electric shift rebuild or replace?

    Yep, from 1975 and 1979. The original 1975 intermediate shaft ball gear showed no appreciable wear at the time the conversion to the hydro-mechanical was done. The new outdrive unit had it's new ball gear so the dealer just let them mate up. They are both still on the assy as I type. I was...
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    Win 7 Desktop Icons?

    I have two "desktop.ini" icons that showed up on my desktop. I really do not know when they got there or why they got there. They are strange in that they are kind of greyed out. The are linked to NotePad. I went to delete them but got warnings that something might not work if I did. This...
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    Motorized bicycles?

    In a current Popular Mechanics there was a blurb about a motorized bicycle using a relatively inexpensive 49 cc motor kit. It sounds like a lot of fun for little money and effort, especially being as I have a garage full of bikes. Has anyone done this?
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    Frustrated!

    I have been googling 'Best handheld airless sprayer for use with oil based enamel'. I get no reasonable responses. I get all these models with all kinds of reviews on how they do latex. I do not want to use latex paint. Most of these reasonably priced units do a lousy job spraying thick latex...
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    Just got an Amazon FireStick with....

    ......the KODI app on it. A friend gave me a brief introduction to it. It seems to be pretty neat. Now all I need to do is find out how to load selections into 'favorites' so that I do not have to go through the arduous search/section process to re-find choices that I had already searched out.
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    SSD Harddrive for laptops?

    Can you replace a conventional harddrive, in a laptop, with one? I have a Toshiba Satellite C655. It's about the same age as JoLin's. It has gotten interminably slow with lagging text, slow page loads and faltering videos. It has otherwise been very reliable. I have very little 'stuff on...
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    Saving a texted picture to the 'gallery'?

    I am sure that I have done this before but do not seem to be able to duplicate it. This is on a Samsung Galaxy Mini III. I tap the picture in the text box and it opens the picture full screen. I tap on the full screen picture and a header bar momentarily pops up. On the bar, on the left, is...
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    Need a Google Cloud link

    This business is enough to make one feel dumb. I would like a sign in link to see what has been backed up in the Google cloud from my phone. I have spent countless time on the phone with Verizon and Samsung and neither could help me identify and confirm what has been backed up or even if it is...
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    Backing up Google calender on my 4.4.2 Android Samsung phone?

    I have Verizon Cloud to back up my Contacts and my photos but they do not back up my Google Calendar. I would hate to lose all that data, both for future events and the record for past events. Try as I might, I cannot figure out how to engage Google Cloud to back up my Google Calendar. My phone...
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    Trim Tabs-Electric vs hydraulic?

    This is for an Aluminum 26' Hewescraft. What are the opinions on which are best. This is a trailered boat (not moored) that operates exclusively in sea water. Also, would you go with aluminum tabs or stainless steel?
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    For anyone who owns or has owned a 2006-2010 Ford Explorer

    I have a passenger side front roof console map light out. Can't see how to access the bulb. The internet abounds with information on other years, other models and makes but nothing I have found relates to the 2006-2010 Explorer., I have even posted on two different Explorer forums, to no avail...
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    Balky Laptop?

    I have a Toshiba Laptop that is interminably slow. It runs 64 bit Win7 and uses an AMD E-300 APU at 1.3 gHz. It has 4 gb of RAM. I know this is not greased lighting but I don't think it should be this slow. It takes for ever to load a web page and half the time I get a notice that "a web page...
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    Soundbars?

    I was finally convinced to dump the old 43" rear projection Toshiba TV. It just would not die and it had no value. I gave it away on Craigslist. I replaced it with a 55" LG Smart TV and and a modest LG soundbar. After much effort I was able to get the volume and mute functions to pair with the...
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    Email Client?

    I am still using Outlook Express on my XP PC. It works just fine but it was not available to use on my Win 7 laptop so I used Mozilla Thunderbird on my Win 7 laptop. It has worked fine for some time but now there are issues. I understand that Mozilla has cast it off and there does not seem to...
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    Updating Adobe Flash Player?

    When AFP needs updating in Firefox, Firefox blocks it. You have to give permission to 'allow' it every time it is needed. The 'update now' links that are provided have never worked. I have, numerous times before, found another link to update it but this time I cannot find it. When you use the...
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    Smart Phone Calender?

    I am just getting into using my bundled smart phone calendar app. So far it is pretty nifty. You can load in an appointment date and set it to notify with a chosen amount of time in advance. So if you have a doctor's appointment on a Friday, you can have it give you a heads up two days in...
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