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This boiler was installed in June 2019 and has been brilliant. However, now we are experiencing a fluctuation in the hot water temperature. Is this something that we can fix by doing a reset or do we require an Engineer visit to remedy the issue? Any advice would be much appreciated.

We have currently lost all power to sockets on part of the ground and first floor but on checking the boxes, no breakers have been tripped. We did think that as we currently have a bit of a problem with mice and our next door neighbours are doing a basement conversion that a cable may have...

We have four very old radiators at our offices, of the double rad type that really require bleeding. Unfortunately, seven out of the eight bleed valves have been broken so there is nothing to turn with a key. Any help or advice as to an alternative way of bleeding these rads would be very...

My daughter has been given an old laptop by a woman that she occasionally babysits for. It is a HP Pavillion ZE4500 series (Actual 4521EA) which is now quite dated but on the plus side it does have 512MB of RAM and a 80GB hard disk, which is more than sufficient for my daughter's needs...

I have just bought a few bits of hardware from a company that my firm uses that is closing down. One of these is a Hitachi 250GB IDE hard disk. I have completely reformatted it using the Windows XP system tool and it seems ok in that I can see both partitions of the drive using 'My...

A close neighbour, in the past week, was robbed of her watch and rings, at knifepoint, by a huge guy that forced his way into her hallway when she answered her door, in the early afternoon and it was in the middle of one of the worst hailstorms ever, in London! My family are, naturally, now a...

I wish to add a separate hard drive to my wireless network to contain data which can be accessed even though the main pc is switched off. I would appreciate any ideas as to what hardware/software I will require in order to achieve this. The reason for doing this is that I have...

My sister has recently purchased a new gas cooker. Unfortunately, her husband, who very rarely cooks, took one of the oven racks out to reposition it but not realising that it has to be slotted back between the guides positioned it on top of one of the two sets of guides. The result was...

My nephew's IDE hard disk has packed up completely and, needless to say, he hasn't backed up all his school work and all the music that he has spent years copying from his cds. I have tried to help by seeing if I can repair it as I have some really good software for recovering data from...

I am trying to fix my niece's pc and would greatly appreciate some help on this one. She has installed Service Pack 2 and it worked ok for a couple of days but now it will not boot into Windows. No error messages appear but it gets to the screen with the Windows logo and the blue light...

I have just bought a second-hand pc for my son. It is quite old but it is a Pentium 4 machine. The problem is that it is one of the 'Tiny' mini towers and the case is awful. The slot for the cd-rom drive is partially hidden and when I installed a new DVD writer the drawer would not open...

I think our microwave is on the way out but I am not too sure as to what could be responsible. It only cost around £100 when purchased just over 18 months ago but it has been working without any problems, apart from a replacement bulb, until today. I noticed that the display was not...

I think our microwave is on the way out but I am not too sure as to what could be responsible. It only cost around £100 when purchased just over 18 months ago but it has been working without any problems, apart from a replacement bulb, until today. I noticed that the display was not...

I have a Lacie 40Gb USB powered drive, which seems to have developed a mechanical fault, from which I am going to try to recover the 'lost' data. To explain, touching wood, I have been very successful in recovering 'lost' data on both corrupted and physically damaged hard drives for friends...

I am currently having a problem with my pc in that when I startup Windows XP Home Edition – Service Pack 2 I seem to get loads of ‘memory related’ Application Error messages relating to various Application ‘exe’ files such as:- (The ‘exe’ file concerned) - Application Error The...

My cousin has given me his pc which has a corrupted hard disk and he cannot see any of his data. It is a Dimension (Dell) 9150 and it has a sata 250Gb hard disk. I have the necessary software to recover his "lost" data but in order to do it I need to connect his drive to one of my machines...

About two years ago, I bought a pc with Windows XP - Home Edition pre-installed and have experienced problems, virtually, ever since. I have tried restoring the Windows system by all available means on several occasionsand have also completely re-installed it on a fairly regular basis...

A pal, who owed me some money, has just returned to his native Australia for the foreseeable future and he has left me with a load of brand new boxed German made halogen lamps that are now taking up a lot of room in the garage. As anything to do with electrics and lighting, apart from the...

After some problems regarding a faulty, but out of warranty, TV I was sent this by a friend and although it was from an article in a magazine published some time back, it still applies today! When I brought this to the attention of the Manager of the branch where I purchased it and insisted...

I have partitioned my hard disk so that I have the option of booting into my original Windows 2000 Pro system or my new Windows XP Home Edition (set as default). The Windows 2000 system is located on drive c: (has about 15 GB of free space) and Windows XP on drive d: (has over 100 GB of free...