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I had the same issue.
In my case, the problem was that in order to get an email box I had to take a server with PHP MyAdmin, a few GB, possibility of hosting my own website...
It was all or nothing, and that cost around what you say it does.
If you have just the domain name, you should pay around €3 a year.
It's a crazy price difference and it makes no sense there's nothing in between 
You could check if your provider added any services that explain the price increase and if you can disable any of those services.
I'm currently hosting a website so I'm paying the full price.
Also, I've heard of more providers increasing their prices like that because €25 a year for an email address isn't profitable, according to them.
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There are plenty of bargain basement hosting companies that include email hosting (pop3 or imap) that only charge £2 - £3 a month. Or some do just email: try web hosting uk[^] - they charge £0.99 / month for email-only. You can transfer your domain name free-of-charge. The site includes instructions for how to do that. (I have no commercial relationship with webhosting.uk.com but one of my clients hosts their site there). But for £2.49/month you could host a couple of websites there, with unlimited email addresses, unlimited databases, either Windows or Linux, and give yourself a "proper" web presence as well as just your own email address.
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Sounds good but if my current provider won't release the domain I'm stuffed
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Even if they don't release the domain itelf, you should be able to change the nameserver to point to a 3rd party hosting, and cancel email provision with 123Reg. I'm pretty sure I've moved domains away from 123reg for clients in the past (might be 10 years ago, mind...)
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Currently the company is able to charge you to retain the address with a new provider (e.g. BT charge £7.50 per month). OFCOM is currently looking into this issue and has expressed its displeasure at the current arrangement.
Might be better to hold off and see what the outcome is.
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Thanks that's good to know
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I am not sure about the domain name part of your question
I would suggest Proton Mail as a provider FREE and Paid Plans
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So, I have an application launcher, that jumps out when I hit the top border of my screen with the mouse...
Applications that are running 'as administrator' - all instances of VS in my case, are blocking that hit, so the launcher will not jump unless the application is minimized or not full screen.
Looked all over the place, but couldn't find an explanation (neither solution) to this...
Have you?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I've has something similar.
Does the launcher have an option to launch a program as admin?
You could run the app launcher as admin, but then everything it launches will run as admin.
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Wow... It seems to solve the problem...
Do you have any explanation for that?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I think the whatever the launcher starts runs under the same privileges as the launcher.
I use a search utility Everything that runs with admin rights and I've seen that sometimes if I open a program with it then the program doesn't want to open files double-clicked in Explorer wich is running under normal privileges. It's a Windows thing.
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I meant, why a run-as-administrator application blocks the mouse event from the pop-up application launcher... And why running the application launcher as-administrator too solves that problem...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'm guessing it has to do with privileges, that the run-as-admin app doesn't take input from apps running with less rights.
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I can't see where is the 'input' from the less privileged application...
I would think that capturing mouse does not work in this case, like the run-as-administrator application 'cancels' the capture...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I've optimised my monitor / mouse / keyboard / zoom camera / phone charger / other phone charger / watch charger / headphone charger / zoom lamp setup so it's all neatly cabled to the back of my monitor. To do this I needed a USB-C extension cable.
It mostly worked. Except for the mouse. OK: everything except the mouse. I tested the plugs, I swapped things in and out, I checked the mouse worked when plugged into the laptop directly. Nothing worked.
Until I unplugged the USB-C extension cord, twisted it 180 degrees, and plugged it back in.
Now it works.
This makes no sense to me.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's some sort of EU regulation - don't worry about it.
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Ah - that's why I had to click through so many consent forms after plugging it in.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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USB was the one port to solve all problems.
The fact that there's USB-C proves it didn't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The problem isn't USB-C, but B, B SuperSpeed, Mini B, Micro B, Micro B SuperSpeed, and then C. Maybe you want to count in as well the A, Mini A, Mini AB and Micro AB. Anyone who seriously believes that C will be the very last USB connector ever is naive, to phrase it politely.
Yet I'd say that for at least ten years, USB did deliver. Not only did we get rid of COM and LPT and SCSI (with umpteen different plugs) and PS/2 and DIN and 15-pin joystick port, but also several proprietary plugs that required dedicated extension cards plugged into the mainboard.
We could tolerate the Mini B. But it got out of hand with the Micro B. From then on, chaos reigns.
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Had you cleared the dust out of it first?
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Chris Maunder wrote: Except for the mouse.
Since the computer mouse requires movement across flat surfaces the USB-C has to be twisted properly into the plug.
This is the expected behavior to support the hardware interface and is a part of USB-C requirement for all computer mouse(s).
Since keyboards are not moved across the surface they do not have this requirement.
A lot of people don't know about this, but the standard is clearly stated in the docs: http://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10000/pg10000.html[^] 
Am i funny yet? 
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If you have to ask....
JohnnyCee
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When I got my first USB-C device, I did the unbelievable and looked up the spec. (Yes, I know RTFM is a swear word, and I'm donning appropriate PPE.)
I was staggered at the complexity. The "major" signals, power, etc are "mirrored" (well, skew-mirrored) but some aren't. The device and chip-in-the-cable are meant to figure out between then which way is up. Maybe your extension isn't strictly "all pins 1:1", or its chip isn't playing nice.
Ah, the joys of "smart" cables!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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When I got my first USB device (A Schock Flip Phone) I just returned the whole mess - I didn't want to have another device and charger when I've a dozen or so of the microUSB things that are everywhere.
Further reading and I discover that the base-turds are changing over, everywhere, and all the old chargers will require adapters.
So I went and bought back the Schock Flip Phone and go a ten-pack of really cheap adapater (micro USB to USB C) to sprinkle about my world.
The life-changing event suffered by Chris goes a long way in explaining why it sometimes doesn't seem to work. At least the microUSB only goes in one way - depending, of course, on how angry you are.
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