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Pay-as-you-go Low Use Mobile Tariff SIM card
Try 1pmobile.com
1 penny per minute, per text, per megabyte
At the time of writing there is a £30 annual bundle or you could top-up every 120 days at £10.
CCTV software
Re-purpose PCs, network cameras and webcams with ivideon.
Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files
If some Windows functions aren’t working or Windows crashes, use the System File Checker to scan Windows and restore your files.
Irfanview – Image Viewing Software
GRAPHIC VIEWER
- Fast and compact ( just 3 MB )
- Freeware for non-commercial use
- Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10
- 32 and 64 bit version
- Multi language support
- Unicode support
- Designed to be simple but powerful
Repairing or removing Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10
IE11 can be disabled and enabled from the ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ link from the control panel. To repair IE11 firstly disable it and then run ‘sfc /scannow’ from a command prompt window, before re-enabling.
Audacity – Audio-editing and recording Software
For sounds, music cutting & mixing.
Google Chrome not upgrading problem – reverts to previous version
On a Dell Inspiron Desktop Tower PC running Windows 10 Home 64bit, recently upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium – there was a very odd problem with Google’s Chrome Browser.
Firstly the version was rather elderly 58.58.3029.110 and wasn’t auto-upgrading, secondly no link for uninstalling was viewable in Control Panel or Settings:Apps. All attempts to run the online installer made no difference. Manually deleting the installation folders and Registry entries would be ‘magically’ reversed if any installer (even later versions) was run or existing link was activated.
Working on the guess that this was an ‘enterprise’ issue – running the latest Chrome Browser for Enterprise MSI (installer – scroll down past the bundles) restored an Uninstall link.
Uninstalling using this link seemed to work – but any installer would still produce the ‘magical’ reversion described above.
Using the Offline Chrome Installer (or 32 bit) from a different Local Administrator Account temporarily resolved the issue but the ‘magical’ reversion eventually returned.
Googling revealed a few other similar cases, at least one user being ridiculed on a support forum! After yet another reversion I started to examine the individual processes in Task Manager and discovered (using Open file location) they were bogus entries running from outside the Chrome Installation folders, also realized that they were named Chrome (32 bit) unlike the genuine version.
So this is a Virus which enforces the use of an old Browser version for its own purposes – which I could not deduce. There were at least two bogus folders in Program Files of a similar nature. I had tried at least two AV scanners before finding the culprit.
BIOS update for HP Microserver G7 N54L
If you install Windows 10 on a HP Microserver you might find that the Network Ethernet Port cannot be accessed by the OS.
The solution might be a BIOS update using firmware upgrade SP64420.exe download. Version 2013.10.01 (A) (15 Nov 2013) can be found here.
After creating the Update USB and booting to it the update finished untidily at a command line prompt – but was successful.