Sometimes I have to look up the passwords in Chrome even though they appear automatically when I login to something. A simple process but I did something that has stopped the passwords showing. I...

Having WhatsApp on my desktop is essential to me because I get a hundreds of messages and reading and responding on a phone is difficult. To get it operating on the PC is simply done by showing the...

A good thought, Megahertz, and it could have been a cause early this afternoon because I set up a defrag schedule only last week and it ran today. BUT it cannot be the explanation for all the...

Thanks for your reply Railtech; apologies for slow response. There is no 2nd ASE and switching off Defender made no difference. I read an earlier post on the same subject - shown below on my screen -...

Version 2004 (OS build 19041.804) For long periods of time this function of Windows 10 (a part of Microsoft Defender) takes up the whole of the spare traffic to and from the hard drive(s). To make...

As I was reading your last post Frabnkhs your questions reminded me that the BT modem thing by the PC was not plugged directly into a wall socket but into a multi-socket extension lead which was...

Thanks for these responses. The connection through the power line is better than the previous wifi and my son is getting the faster speeds by the same connection except that his connection may not...

As I said the connection for both PC's is by ethernet cable connected to the home power line. Ookla gives me the same results as Broadband.co.uk.

The internet speed to my PC runs a lot slower than Vodafone says it does, Today I had a speed of 21.4MB from Broadband.co.uk but Vodaphone says I get 40MB (but it should be 67MB). Connection is by...

Hello Everyone. I've been on here previously but not introduced myself. I've used computers before there were PC's but I'm not very technical and so questions I ask maybe based in ignorance.

Thank you for this, worked perfectly. Apologies for the delay in responding.

I have followed this process and Enabled the "Allow wake timers" in the Advanced Settings/Sleep" section, but I cannot see how to set an Awake Timer. I am wanting to set Sleep after one hour but to...