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Blue_Belle wrote:

How old is the laptop and how much money have you spent repairing it so far? At some point there comes time when a new (or new to you) laptop will be a beyter option than the repairs and fixes.

I think it's just over four years old, though it got hammered a fair bit when I was working at home during the first two lockdowns until the office eventually provided me with a work device.  The cowboys up the road charged me £130 for their so-called repair & the replacement power cable/adapter from Dell cost me about 66 quid.  I have thought about buying a new one (I'd never consider acquiring a reconditioned one) & did a brief search a few weeks ago, but I find the prospect of having to put together a new list of favourites, not to mention stored passwords for the sites that require them (e.g. this one & the Lottery), offputting, to say the least.  I may have to bite the bullet at some point, however, as I accept that I can't just keep shelling out good money after bad for repairs that don't work.

Again, many thanks to all who've offered advice.

Strongbow:  the machine's turned off, though not unplugged, overnight & it generally behaves itself when I first turn it back on in the morning, but it gradually deteriorates as the day wears on (so far, so good today, but it won't last).

emmsie:  that's an interesting bit of lateral thinking.  As it happens, my local library is less than ½ mile away, just past my local Sainsbury's, in fact.  Never actually set foot in it, but I may just give it a whirl.   



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Depending on which browser you use it can be very painless to transfer bookmarks,, passwords etc between computers by simply syncing the accounts. I found out to my cost when I tidied up some bookmarks on my desktop and they disappeared from my laptop as well - so I turned off syncing. It can be quite simple to transfer files across as well. My laptop also slows down a bit during the day, but a reboot always cures it - I do tend to have several large programs running at the same time though so it is a shortage of memory.

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the addict wrote:

Depending on which browser you use it can be very painless to transfer bookmarks,, passwords etc between computers by simply syncing the accounts. I found out to my cost when I tidied up some bookmarks on my desktop and they disappeared from my laptop as well - so I turned off syncing. It can be quite simple to transfer files across as well. My laptop also slows down a bit during the day, but a reboot always cures it - I do tend to have several large programs running at the same time though so it is a shortage of memory.

Now you've got me, TA:  I wouldn't have the first idea of how to go about sync-ing computers!  That's how ignorant of all things IT I am!  For the record, I use Firefox.    



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It's a couple of clicks on Firefox - but you need a (free) mozilla account (used to be called a Firefox account). It enables you to share bookmarks, passwords, preferences etc across multiple devices.

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the addict wrote:

It's a couple of clicks on Firefox - but you need a (free) mozilla account (used to be called a Firefox account). It enables you to share bookmarks, passwords, preferences etc across multiple devices.

Thanks.  I haven't a Firefox/Mozilla account, but I think I know what to do to set one up without too much difficulty, so that's a start.  smile



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