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My file manager is xplorer2 lite – 2 panes and simple.

Thanks – I use Sunbird as a calendar.

Silly question coming up – never heard of Lightning until today – what is it and do I need it?

On reading this most recent comment on Windows 10, I fear for my sanity.
I have great problems with ’tiles’ and the scrolling involved to ‘find’ the one I want, and to change even that for other layouts and functionality seems like change for the sake of it.
I don’t like finger-work on screen anyway – much less convenient than mouse and keyboard.
As mentioned in the article, much of this seems to be motivated by marketing, although the marketeers have got it wrong – don’t change for the sake of it – just make the existing more stable.

Many thanks to all above – I managed to stop the pop-ups by restarting Firefox with add-ons disabled – no more pop-ups.
However, this raises its own problems, one of which is that I cannot find which add-on is causing the problem – there seems to be no function in Firefox to manage add-ons other than to add them – one cannot disable them one at a time or delete them.

I’ve never had to use a back-up to restore files, so I’m talking theoretically here – I have the old Norton Ghost – it has the facility for a rescue disc, and backs-up to a USB Passport drive.
It also automatically deletes old back-ups – keeping three.

As mentioned by pheberer above, several Canon printers have an attachment for printing directly on to ‘printable’ CDs/DVDs. The results were very good.
I stopped using Canon printers when three in succession packed up 2 weeks after the warranty expired!

I used these two suggestions, but they brought up nothing.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/

I’ll try the other suggestions shortly and report back, before updating Firefox.

Very suspicious of ‘side-along’ loads, and very aware of bloatware.

Probably ‘realistic’ is more apt!

I don’t know whether it’s the granite or the radon!

So you won’t get a connection very often.

cheers, Paul

Cynic!

We do have a connection most of the time – but when the weather is very inclement it is much slower. (Indicator light amber rather than green – rarely red.)

Just shows – wet stone walls not helpful.

I have a detached annexe to the main house, about 40 – 45 metres away (about 50 yards) and needed to extend my Wi-Fi facility to that.
The main house and the annexe both have stone walls, but I mounted the extender in the annexe next to a window (facing the main house) and moved my main ‘terminal’ also to a window facing the annexe.
The annexe extender is a Netgear WN2000RPT, and the main terminal is a D6200 DSL modem router. Neither can utilise external aerials (antennae) for connection.
I found that the connection in good weather is adequate, but in rain it falls out sometimes.
It was not possible to use wired connections for structural reasons.

Recently found that Thunderbird was so slow at downloading and sending e-mails, let alone moving them to a folder that I thought it had locked!
Eventually I found that Ad-Aware ‘Real-time Protection’ was the culprit – I had to disable it to run Thunderbird.

Wasn’t this the adventure that saw a parachute malfunction?

I get the ‘Thunderbird thinks this is a scam’ warning when I open Windows Secrets – I just click the box at the right-hand end of the warning bar ‘Ignore’.
I don’t know how to stop the warnings just for Windows Secrets though – I find the ‘help’ files in Mozilla very confusing; they seem to be written for those who are experts in the field – surely they can write help files for novices – after all they are the ones more likely to need help!