Computing Advice & Technology Chat

Saving to folder?

I dunno whether anyone's bothering to look here any more? This'll be a silly question to some folks but here goes anyway. I've got a folder on this laptop called "Pictures". If I click it, it says "This folder is empty". Yes, quite right, there's now...

Ebay pages just not loading on my Macs

For the past week or so ebay pages just don't load for me, particularly editing a listing. The pages are in an endless loop of loading, I can leave them for half an hour and occasionally come back and find a page has made it, then it's a 20 minute wa...

How do I change my signature on here?

My precious signature was created by a free website when they first changed the forums - but it's hosted by Photobucket, who have marmalised it, so I've just spent ages making one all by myself hosted by Imgur.com. But I can't see how to change it in...

ebay playing up

What's going on with eBay today? The app isn't working, log in issues on browser

(Google) YouTube (and Twitter?) scandalous behaviour

Suddenly I stopped getting notifications of uploads by YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to. For 2 days I googled but results were swamped by "how do I stop email notifications", but eventually I found one individual, also based in the UK, who was...

Smart T.V`s

hi guys, my first ever visit to these particular boards, which is very interesting, so i thought i`d give this a try i have a 55 inch smart t.v which i`ve had now for about 4-5 years, but for the last few months or so, youtube has stopped loading on ...

Dell desktop freezing and error message

Hi, I bought a refurbished Win 10 Dell gaming desktop pc for my son, it worked fine for a few days and then started freezing, it's D04S. He has to turn it off by holding in the button, sometimes it will reboot and be fine but other times it won't reb...

Edge extension "YouTube Comment Bot"

I had a look in Edge's new add-on store and YouTube Comment Bot stood out. Over the past several months, I've been getting spam comments on my videos (there are a lot, I upload clips every day) have been a pain. Some users have uploaded videos warnin...

Look what they've done to my treasured signature...

... and I've been into Profile but can see where to change or remove it, could anyone advise please? This signature was made donkey's years ago on a website that I can't remember anything about.

Drop Downs and search filters not working anymore in an item search

Hi As title drop downs and search filters not working anymore in an item search. When I search for any item it comes up with all the results but you are unable to filter the results. e.g you cant change best match to lowest price, the button is dead....

Total loss of description text in all ebay listings / vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com inaccessible

Been trying to figure this out all day in a separate post, am posting this with a more appropriate subject line to see if it gets more response... I am getting every part of ebay and listings are complete except for the description which is totally b...

Adding edited content......

Is there a way of adding edited content to a Word file already saved on a flash drive? For example, say you have a document called "Dumbo". (No, I don't have one called that ) You work on that file on your computer and add a lot of new content to "Du...

Goodness, caught red-handed.

I saw a bit on the BBC news and there's supposed to be more on Panorama. Here's an interesting taster:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-51660982/criminals-on-cctv-scammers-caught-red-handed

Help !!!! 'Your connection is not Private' Google Chrome

Hi all, Not being no computer expert I'm having a bit of a problem and need some advice/help. It looks like Chrome has updated as certain things have changed on the tab/tool bar ie font & colour but, when I go to certain sites like parts of ebay and ...

Goodbye, Windows 7 - and how to get Windows 10 for free?

Today sees the end of support for Windows 7. Sadly, I'm old enough for ten years to seem a very short time, and I think poor old W7 probably feels the same. Plenty of scary stuff on the horrors that await those who continue to run W7 should they ever...

Resolved! A grey lock with an orange triangle, but my SSL https code is compliant!

After receiving an eBay warning letter for not being HTTPS compliant, I spent £70 quid on a SSL certificate, activated it, waited for server to update [48hrs or so]. Changed all my links from http: to HTTPS: on all active listings [using eBay’s find ...

I've had a problem.

I went to my Win 10 laptop and opened up and when I went to the ebay community (Round table) I was faced with a really cut down "My Profile" page. The other community pages just open to the same page. Everything is centred and scrolling down the page...

Facebook

I couldn't think of a better place than here, as facebook doesn't seem to be working properly but, can anyone suggest why when i use facebook that i have to sign in EVERY TIME i switch pages on facebook please?

Resolved! How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

I have loads of pop up advert coming up on my site when I do any activity, and it takes me twice as long to do ant thing.Can they be removed?Regards

Privacy matters - eBay Profile, followers, interest

Beware of your privacy settings. It seems eBay exposes individual data by allowing public to view member's followers and interest. Have yours check now!

Internal server error .

anyone getting a message advising Internal Sewrver Error on android? im on a samsung galaxy s3,, server error was invalid request / error type 485390?can acess ebay on wifes galaxy s5, my tablet and laptop, but not in the mobile... grrrr

eBay & Instagram: a question about security of posting eBay links on Instagram posts

This morning I had a shock when working on Instagram when I realised that my posts of eBay listings into which I had pasted the eBay URLs took me into my private eBay account. This didn't happen with URLs of the form https://www.ebay.co.uk/item/#1234...

Irritating new "security feature" when trying to log in.

It demands a succession of those annoying "Captcha" things - presumably my eyesight wasn't equal to finding all the fire hydrants etc on tiny, grainy pictures, so it kept offering me more. What really added insult to injury, though, was that Google a...

How do you have your brand logo on the search listing???

Hello All I have a business Ebay account and i have a shop outlet on there. One of my customers has the logo on their search listings that leads to their shop. For example https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=insignia+i...

How to set up to automatically logout when I close down ebay

I've got more than one account on ebay, and just wondered if I could have it set up to automatically log me out when I close down the tab or the computer. That way I would log in every time I opened ebay - which would be ideal.Any ideas/advice please...

cannot reply to seller message / cannot get return label

Hi If I try to reply to my seller about a return the message system will not activate the 'send message' button. If I try to just print off the return label she generated the screen goes to an alomst blank page with 'technical error' at the top. Both...

How do I upload documents on the site uploader? Keep getting error message 'no documents exist'

I'm trying to upload soem documents - correct size <2MB, correct format jpeg, select correct document type et -, to the site uploader link i was sent by eBay customer support. However each time I do it and press the upload button, I get the error nes...

Chromebooks - keep an eye on expiry of support for the operating system

It seems that Google provides six and a half years of software support for new hardware - from the date that that hardware is introduced. Thus, should you buy a Chromebook five and a half years after its introduction, you'll only have a year of updat...

Page goes blank?

If I go to the Daily Mirror web site, the page opens then goes blank. That's on this Win 10 computer. All other web sites open OK. If I use my Win 7 computer the DM page opens OK. Using Win 10 with the Edge browser, I've tried the simple things, clea...

Restart??

A couple of days ago when I went to Youtube to play a video it wouldn't play. To get it to work, I had to restart. It happens regularly now. Sometimes a video plays OK early on, but later in the day they won't play until I restart. Done the usual stu...