I send my very best wishes to all SL members. Have a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year

A while ago someone told me what to install to get emojis, had a little symbol for it at the right side of taskbar - now it has disappeared and I can't remember what it was called - any advice please ?

I use Windows 7 and support is ending in January. I don't mind admitting I'm now getting sleepless nights about the next step as I'm definitely not computer-minded, can just do the basics. Anyone from Kahuti will probably remember I've been down this road before and am still none the wiser.
Windows don't think it's a good idea to install Windows 10 on an old machine. I currently use an HP Pavilion all-in-one which I'm very happy with and I'm not keen on laptops although I can see I may now have to buy one with W10 on it and bite the bullet.

My queries are:
Do I put everything on Cloud (recommended) and, once I work out how to do it, will I be able to access it from any new computer I buy?
Best and easiest way to back up what I have here (there is a DVD slot which has never worked no matter how many different discs I try to back up with). I do have a USB 3.00 Flash Drive - do they do the same thing.

Can I still get the 'favourites' which include saving accounts, internet banking and other things I use a lot?
Or will everything have to be installed again.
Will I be more confused if I try and run two computers side by side for a while?

Or should I get in the professionals.

Thoughts from anyone having the same problem much appreciated. (PS I'm ancient as you can probably work out).

Does anyone use it on an android tablet?

How do I stop receiving unwanted tweets? I am receiving non personal political tweets from a member of the government - electioneering - and definitely did not ask for them and don't want them. Or can people just send anyone anything without being asked to? I need to unfollow this person, I presume, but don't know how to do it. Thank you in anticipation!

Would anybody know the action to change Capital letters to lower case?
I am doing it quite often now.
Looking for highlighting and change not a program which was mentioned previous but takes too long.

Notification ---- Get VPN


What is it and should we install? Thank you

I tried to copy a video from Facebook via FBdown.net. it said download but it isn't in my pictures folder or my down loads - where has it gone?

I used this system a couple of days ago and the video went straight to my pictures folder okay.

Every time i log in to my laptop i get the message my firewall is turned off - every time i turn it on - why doesn't it just stay turned on [ this is with AVG]

I am at least one folder missing from the menu, when I put it in the search bar it comes up but the 2 recent [today] messages I moved to there are not shown. What can i do ?

I've received a couple of emails recently with PDF files attached. Viewing them they look alright but when I sent them to the printer, what should be a whole A4 page is shrunk down to less than a quarter of the page.
The only way to print at a normal size font is to copy and paste to a blank Word document and print from there. But that is hard work as sometimes have to copy paste in several blocks. as "select all" only selects up to a certain point.

Apart from Skype and Facebook Messenger does anyone know of any websites that allow video calling from a laptop?

The family here have had a once a month Skype chat with my sister in Oman since she moved out there 12 years ago, but earlier this year her Skype was blocked. Oman is one of the countries that has banned Skype, so its a wonder she wasn't blocked sooner.

So we tried the video call option in Facebook Messenger and found it worked if we both used Chrome. That worked ok a few times but now her video camera "can't be found". At least we could still do a voice only call and she could see us.

There is the option of me upgrading to a smartphone so I can use Whatsapp video calling.

I usually minimise Scooploop and call up to see what is going on from time to time.
A notice came up for Window 10 asking me to download --Reimage Repair exe --- or I would loose some of my files/data.
I did download but have done nothing further.
Please advise what I should do? Thank you

Just run Malwarebytes and result show Reimage as an unwanted program.

Once deleted should I do anything else?

Today it's changed. It looks OK here but when I look at 'Groups', just the middle EL shows! All Aboard looks odd too.

Turned laptop on and the noise of the fan is making a noise like a car over revving. It has done this before quite a few times but it can be fixed by shutting down a nd restarting. But today no amount of shutting down and restarting is making the laptop run with its normal quietness.

It is not yet affecting ths software, apart from it is running a bit slower than usual.

Any suggestions what to do.

Having got myself (sort of) organised with a ScoopLoop shortcut on the desktop I usually arrive here and look at Notifications. Then, when I see something I'm interested in reading and maybe commenting on I have absolutely no idea which group it's in. It would be nice to know!

Welcome to all the IT non techie folk especially those now moving over from Kahuti, hopefully we'll get a few of the other 'experts' join us as well to offer advice where and when required.
For those who don't know me I'm Ray and I hail from East Kent, computers are my thing these days since retiring back in 2006 from a life as a Commercial Vehicle Fitter. I'm also a Parish Councillor and I run a number of Freegle Groups online (Canterbury, Ashford, Folkestone, White Cliffs, Thanet and possibly soon to add Sheppey/Sittingbourne).