What is the best way to install Linux on to a PC, so it can exist alongside a Windows 7 or XP system?

Two weeks ago, I installed Linux Mint 13 on my old netbook, using a USB stick and Mint4Win. After one or two very minor teething troubles, it has worked brilliantly, and I've hardly booted...

Just thought id rant about a client of ours.

Wants to buy a house for £380k, wants a mortgage soley in his wife's name.

His wife currently shows an income of £300 per month as a part time M&S employee, and a owner of a residential care home, bought only a few months...

Have been trying to get a DCA which bought a credit card debt to confirm (under CPUTR) if they or the original CC company hold an original, properly executed CCA.

After over a year of evasion they have now written back as follows:

I can advise that XYZ Credit Card Company...

Claims management firms lure PPI mis-selling victims into transferring their pension to risky scheme

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 22nd August 2012 16:04.

Unsuspecting victims of mis-sold payment protection insurance are being lured into transferring their...

I need to get CCA's on some debts I am paying, all date back to 2000/20001, I have the template ready but just need a little advice of where to send.

Capquest on behalf of Egg but payments still made out to Egg - so I presume Egg own the debt - where are Egg now?

Wesco...

hello im new to this and would appreciate some help and advice if possible.

Basically welcome finance playin funny beggers......

we put claim in for ppi and since then had no end of bother.

They stopped takin payments and i got local mp, FOS and other people involved...

Hi all, I am new here so please forgive my ignorance on this subject. Just before xmas i got a letter from Buchanan clark and wells asking for identify verification which ignored. then got another letter saying i owed around £500 call number to make payment plan blah blah blah. I sent a letter asing...

Afternoon all..
Hope this is in the right forum !
I had a loan with Yorks bank which became defaulted back in 2009 and finally sold on to a DCA ( Apex) Dec 2010
I have been having an ongoing battle with Apex over various things and they have sent a CCA which initially looks enforc...

HSBC Fined £10.5m For Bad Advice To Elderly

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 5th December 2011 12:30.

*Banking giant HSBC has been fined £10.5m for giving "inappropriate investment advice" to elderly customers.* It is the largest ever retail fine......

...Or anyone else who may have come across this.....

To be brief,

I owe a certain bank a few £K.
I've written to them several times trying to arrange some kind of payment plan (this is a loan post 2007). I actually want to pay this back, but they ignore EVERY...

Can anyone make this out? have an Halifax Reward account, overdraft, Clarity Card and loan. I then see the BOS Silver account, cheaper than the Reward and just as suitable.
So applied online, got accepted, debit card sent etc, but no cheque book? It mentions in their literature it comes with a...

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PriorityOne CPUTR 2008 Thread

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Has anyone used...

I've a CCJ thats about to hit the 6yr period and disappear from my record.

This CCJ was obtained when I thought I was in a IVA with SPECTRUM and when I was new to all this , it was a 6 mths old by the time I was competant enough to deal with these things.

Once the CCJ is...

Hi All,
Welcome to my first ever post....

Just a quick question.

Are there examples of forum members obtaining a 'settled' marker on their CRA records when they've paid a reduced amount as part of a F&F settlement?

The reason I ask is because...

Hi all, glad to see you are all doing well with you issues and having read through mountains of threads i better crack on with what i am here for.

I have a friend (ex-family in-law actually) who is in trouble. They fell into the usual spending trap of a young couple with new child, new...