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petlew · ‎14-07-2025

Thanks for the comments guys. Happy to say I do indeed have a Product Key: Settings/System/About. (and a device ID) Have seen the setting "Remove Insider Preview" which didn't seem helpful or go anywhere as the "activate" button was greyed out. On tucked away closer inspection it seems the Insider Preview on my laptop is not activated. So I presume I can just leave things as they are, seemingly as standard Win 11 Pro, but with Win 11 Pro Insider Preview showing bottom right of screen above the taskbar clock together with the build and version numbers. Which incidentally was put there by me from the Winaero Tweaker app, as I have done with all my previous Win computers, probably unnecessarily, as most likely most of such tweaks are unnecessary.

petlew · ‎12-07-2025

In my fairly new installation of Windows 11 Pro (as installed by the refurbish supplier) I notice in the version information that it is: Pro Insider Preview. Is this good?, Should I keep it this way?. If yes, what do I do with it?. If not, how to return to just the standard Pro version?.

petlew · ‎22-06-2025

Yep!! that solved it. I'd like to thank all the respondents who took the time to look into what seems to have been my own fault.

petlew · ‎22-06-2025

Just to check, I have just got my Win 10 to boot. In Thunderbird the single gmail address at settings is Imap, the same that has all of my email traffic in Win 11 Thunderbird. Would simply deleting the Pop 3 in Win 11 Thunderbird easily solve my problem. Or is another can of worms waiting for me if I do? Sorry I haven't taken what might seem an obvious step before, but getting the recalcitrant Win 10 to oblige can be very time consuming. Hence the new PC.

petlew · ‎22-06-2025

@MisterW No, both gmail addresses appearing in the Win 11 Thunderbird left pane are the same. However right clicking one of them and selecting "settings" shows as Imap, doing the same for the other shows it as Pop 3. (I did in Win 10 Thunderbird have a second address ((an @plus address)) but decided not to take it to the Win 11 computer). The Imap address carry's all of my email. The Pop 3 is empty showing only boxes for Inbox, Drafts, sent and Deleted, nothing in any of them. As I said at the beginning, my email is working well except for the error message at the opening of Thunderbird (every time not just the first from boot).

petlew · ‎22-06-2025

Thank you Gel. However, after searching all avenues, right click settings both email addresses in the Thunderbird left pane, Thunderbird settings from main menu (which lead to the same settings page) or even Win 11 settings. I cannot find the "all settings" option you advise. I tried the pop.gmail.com options as well, but that is basically information and doesn't have any setting options (that I can find anyway). Should it make any difference my Thunderbird version is: 139.0.2 I guess I can't be looking in the right place?.

petlew · ‎21-06-2025

I have finally bitten the bullet and installed Win 11 with a new computer, after having decided a long time ago that I wouldn't like Win 11. How wrong can you be!!. I use Thunderbird for email and have done so for many years, My email client is Gmail. Since the change over to Win 11, when I open Thunderbird I get an error message, that I can simply get rid of by clicking OK, so not a problem it seems, but I'd rather not keep getting the message. However I try the message won't let me copy/paste it so it is typed out here: "The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes. Mail server Pop.gmail.com responded: [SYS/PERM] Your account is not enabled for POP access. Please visit your gmail settings page and enable your account for POP access" I have a suspicion this may have arisen during the initial Win setup from new? But how to get out of it!! In my Thunderbird the left pane has two (my email accounts) addresses showing, both the same. One (IMAP) has all my email traffic in it, the other (POP3) is completely empty with only the bare minimum of options Inbox, sent etc. Right click to settings in either confirms the Imap, pop3 differences, but doesn't seem to have any way of editing them, and even if there was, what should I do without losing huge numbers of mails. My previous Win worked perfectly for years, I can't see what the settings differences might be. Could this be something that should be sorted at the Plus end of things?

petlew · ‎08-06-2023

May seem a daft question for some, but I’m not at home to look; does the P/n Hub 2 router have a phone port as the BT version does?. And with a digital phone and fibre to the box will this future proof against the “great BT switch off”.

petlew · ‎01-06-2023

I realise it is not best practice to switch off a router overnight but, for reasons that are not important here, I often spend weeks sometimes a month or so away from home. Is it ok to switch off a Hub 2 router unused for these durations, probably only switching back on for a few days on return before leaving again?

petlew · ‎23-04-2018

Ok thanks Browni, following that advice, I've switched my network to Private, with no apparent change in operation, except, it may be fractionally quicker connecting with the printers, but that maybe more to do with recently fitting an SSD.

petlew · ‎22-04-2018

Yes, thanks shutter. I vaguely recall seeing that or something very like it written down somewhere. Like lots of things in Win 10, looking through the options, the answers are not always clear. I'll leave it on Public, and give you a green tick.

petlew · ‎22-04-2018

Noticed that my internet connection is Public, should I change it to Private? What changes would I find if I did. I currently have two printers, an iPhone and iPad that connect WiFi. Also a Sky On Demand adaptor, Amazon Fire Stick and Kindle reader that connect WiFi when required.

petlew · ‎06-11-2017

As you can see from the edited Subject I seem to have corrected it with a complete computer shut down and start. Curiously, this reply window still has the uncorrected Subject of "proplem" this in spite the topic is showing correctly. But, ah well it seems to be Ok now. I'm no wiser why it happened. I'll assume that jaread83 has the answer. Whilst all this was going on prior to the restart. Pressing the Refresh button resulted in a full screen of the top left Plusnet we'll do you proud logo corner of the window.

petlew · ‎06-11-2017

Its red

petlew · ‎06-11-2017

Nor is there an edit option to correct the spelling error in the subject.

petlew · ‎06-11-2017

What is wrong with the New Topic typing window? I cannot use "return" to start a new paragraph, or, use the space bar, nor is there any formatting available (text colour, underline, italic etc.) So I can only type everything in one sentence. I am using the Rich Text option. Other typing this morning in email and Word is quite normal, so I expect the problem is PN end.

petlew · ‎31-08-2017

I'm not tech enough to get into a debate about this. But I have read a number of the Apple forums on this subject, whichever method is used to try to transfer Thunderbird address books to iPad seem to be split with those who found it easy and those who had all sorts of problems ending with being unable to complete it. I seem to be in the latter group. My method may be "crude" and have fairly basic results, but it does work and achieve the result I need, and a lot quicker than looking up and typing in addresses with the reasonable likelihood of getting it wrong. But admittedly slower than have an integrated address book. Incidentally, when I exported my entire address books, the five groups I have some of which contain up to a hundred addresses did not transfer at all not even as a group name.

petlew · ‎30-08-2017

Well, I seem to have fixed this another way. A bit unorthodox but it works. Neither Apple or Windows advertise much that Apple iCloud drive has a Win 10 version. Having installed iCloud drive on my Windows laptop, I have been able to export my Thunderbird address books to the iCloud. But its not perfect, In iCloud drive (in the Win 10 side can saved (not imported) from the standard Win file save window. In the iPad, the address book can be opened in an MS Excel like window, From there any email address can be copy/pasted into the mail "To". Its not as tidy as Thunderbird's (or most other windows based mail clients I expect) address use, for instance you can't just type the first letter of an address and expect a list of possibilities. But it does work, and doesn't in practice take as long as I've made it sound. Most importantly my Thunderbird address book is located on my iPad. I have yet to try if I can use some of the group addresses I have, But I suspect these won't work. But I can add them individually on the quite rare occasions I need them. So with my thanks to Mook, I'm giving myself a Fix credit. ICloud Drive, is of course needed on both devices. New addresses used in the iPad are saved directly in the mail client (the very excellent Blue Mail) in the normal way.

petlew · ‎30-08-2017

That's quite an article!!. I'll take a long look when in a quiet moment (?) and see if it works. I'll let you know.

petlew · ‎30-08-2017

Does anybody know how or if a Thunderbird email address book can be transferred to an iPad (Contacts) Having been searching around Google it seems to be a job-to-far. They can of course be individually added to the iPad, but that is long-winded in the extreme, and I only have one life to do the hundreds I have. My friend I gave my "old" Samsung Galaxy to, is having the same problem with a Microsoft mail, but I'm not sure which one.

petlew · ‎28-08-2017

I haven't had to use it for some time but, I used to have a Belkin hub (I haven't seen it for a while but I think it was 4 port) that didn't have a power supply, just plugged in a vacant USB port. A strategically placed Velcro pad attached it to the top of the case, easily removed if required.

petlew · ‎27-08-2017

Far be it from me to be in the unusual position of offering advice but, IF you have another USB port around the back of the case, you could just use a USB hub, and have a number of spare ports as well.

petlew · ‎17-08-2017

Thanks gents. Both the previous answers were right depending on what page you are viewing. The forum menu or a topic.

petlew · ‎17-08-2017

Thanks jaread83, I quite like that idea. but I don't seem to have the "Float this board for current user" option, unless I'm not looking in the right place for it?

petlew · ‎17-08-2017

I only regularly use the General and Tech help forums (general is actually my browser home page and has been for donkeys years). I know it only takes a moment or two going through the menu's but it seems to me it would be helpful to some if the large "forum" button on this page had say a right click option to go directly to your choice of another forum.

petlew · ‎26-08-2016

In sympathy with minivanman's last post. Would it be reasonable to suppose that this could happen because of a disgruntled ex-member, or is that a conspiracy too far.

petlew · ‎26-08-2016

Well done jaread83, and reasonably quick off the mark as well. Personally I would have no problem with a Captcha in use for all members. I would suggest though that members check their email first before logging on to PN, that was my first view of this one. The one place I haven't deleted it yet is from my PM folder, I agree with Infinity there doesn't seem to be a way to delete a single PM. And if there was, how effective is PN's deletion security.

petlew · ‎26-08-2016

Just to collaborate with infinity. Shouldn't there be a PN link somewhere to forward this type of phishing email for investigation. Many other organisations have them (mostly banks etc.) Or is there one already and we just can't find it?

petlew · ‎26-08-2016

Thanks Mav,

petlew · ‎26-08-2016

I tried to reply to Infinity's thread as I have had an identical PM. But for some reason the reply was rejected as "Ooop's you cannot reply to a read only thread". So I started this one separately. Perhaps a mod can merge them. I first saw the PM on my mobile phone. In my PC email compared to a recent real "heads up" PM notification, this PM looks entirely genuine. Needless to say I haven't opened it or the link within it. Next step please PN?

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