My Week For Video Card Problems [View all] This on my main Windows 8 machine this morning. Sat down, pressed space bar to wake up computer and was greeted with the screen in the first picture.
Dell Windows tablet [View all] After seeing acommercial for a Windows tablet, I ordered one last Thursday, receiving it yesterday.
It looks like the iPad, but is much thinner and
USB 3 Question [View all] I have a 1 TB USB 3.0 WD My Book Esentiels External Hard Drive.
The hard drive has failed. I'm unable to format the drive.
My question is:
I have d
Ubisoft Hacked [View all] Received an email with the following information:
Dear Member,
We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unau
Spybot S&D.Exe Trojan. [View all] Hmmm. I remember a recent thread here regarding how bad the latest iteration of Spybot S&D is (I even think I started it) but a search didn't find it.
Laptop PC Support Q&A [View all] My laptop recently crashed while I was watching YouTube. I reached out to a firm "Omnitech Support" who charged me quite a lot of $$ to clean and opti
Assoc Press article re Win 8.1 [View all] I found the attached article from the Associated Press to be interesting both to topic and since it gets wide distribution. Particularly interesting w
Acronis TI and Win 8 [View all] Folks. I have win 8 as my primary OS and I just installed Acronis TI 11 on it. It installed correctly and I made an image of C to a separate partitio
Video Card Strangeness [View all] I have a Sapphire HD4850 video card installed in my Windows 8.1 computer. I kept hearing a fan that would start and stop and I finally found it was t
too many popups?? [View all] My wife has a fairly new touchscreen Lt running windows 8.
It is giving her a ridiculous amount of ad popups etc. to the point it is almost unusabl
New UASP USB ---170% Faster than USB 3.0! [View all] This is interesting. Two USB 3.0 ports on the back of my new ASUS motherboard (the new build) didn't work with a USB 2.0 thumb drive. A little researc
multiple problems [View all] This pc ( acer desk top vista home premium) loads windows with no task bar or icons. When I do cntr,alt del, the page comes up and I select the Task
SSD Install Of Windows 7 [View all] I got my son a new Corsair SSD. He installed Windows 7 and now every boot it black screens first with stuff about RAID. I went into the Dell Bios and
How Much is Your Gmail Worth? [View all] here is an interesting article from Brian Krebs the value of hacked email accounts.
http:// krebsonsecurity.com/ 2013/06/how-much-is- your-gmail-worth
Hard drive problems [View all] When attempting to do a hard drive backup (Drive C with Acronis or Windows 7 Pro) I'm unable to finish. I get a message of bad sectors. When I run chk
Spybot S&D. [View all] Whoa, Nellie!!!
I just downloaded Spybot S&D (version 2.1.18.0) on my newest build and can't believe the massive changes in the user interface. Tot
SSD in a 6 Yr Old Laptop? [View all] I probably know the answer but I'll ask anyway. Would it be worth installing an SSD in my Dell Inspiron E1705/9400 with a Intel(R)Core (TM)2CPU T5200
This is odd [View all] I posted a few days ago that after Windows Updates, I was pushed to IE 10 and that eBay's appearance was all garbled. Well, my Acer netbook and my To
New MB "quality"??? [View all] Been reading on newegg user reviews of mb in $150-$200 range. The norm is 15-18% completely fail the user evaluations. What gives? And this includes a
Looking for high end laptop [View all] Hi all,
The laptop that I have owned the past 5 plus years (a 6 year old model) is starting to show wear on the cable going to the screen. I can g
AV Question [View all] Hi guys and gals.
Got a quick question. My antivirus subscription will be up next month. I am still using NOD32 version 4.2. It is clearly time
Services and Processes Questions [View all] Earlier, as everyone knows by now, I posted with subject of GAOD.
I was merely wanting to know what I could shut down in task manager.
Without g
How to Tell if Laptop Hard Drive Crashed? [View all] Recently My laptop will not boot up. It is a black screen and I hear no noises except a long beep when hitting F8 to bring up BIOS. I know how to tak
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