I made a video on my iPhone of my grandson hunting Easter eggs. I emailed it to my computer to view it there, and the *.mov file said it needed a codec to play on Media Player. So I clicked the "GET IT" button and worked through a few windows until I came to one that asked me to log into my...
Well, the builder suggested clearing the external drive, then reset the drive letter to X: so other drives won't get in behind it. After a Restart, the drive became available in "Select drive" and it was able to run File History successfully. I still don't understand what that did under the...
It's been a long time since I went into the registry. I'm not ignorant of it but ....
I did Find for "File History" and got quite a handful of hits, like at
Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1393801971-2825511811-1734176295-1001\Software\Classes\Local Settings\ImmutableMuiCache\Strings\52C64B7E...
New box with Windows 11. The guy who built it suggested I use File History for backups. I have a nice new 2TB Seagate external drive, so I set up File History and it ran nicely. I already had a thumb drive running so it got the letter E: and then the external drive became F: Then I did...
Well, puzzle solved. The guy who built the box came in with a remote connection program that lets him see and control my machine. He was looking around in Settings -> Apps ->Installed Apps and saw my little utility called KatMouse, and asked what is that, and I said "that enables the mouse to...
I tried the updater thing, no help. Tried googling for latest driver for Logitech, tried the Logitech website, no help. Still same inconsistent behavior
Just got a new computer (custom built) with Windows 11, after 13 years on my old box with Windows 7.
I'm distressed to find that frequently I can't scroll using a mouse wheel. I've tried with the new Logitech mouse that came with the deal, and also with my good old Microsoft Wheel Mouse...
RLGL - Someone from there once told me that "Minnesota" is a native name for that area, and it means "land of several good qualities". I thought he was pulling my leg. But can it really mean that?
In 1,000 words or less, what is a tor copy? I googled and it looks like there is a tor browser. Is that needed for this trick? use the tor browser to download one of those cheaper "copies" like above?
And the copies need you to uproot a key? and the tor browser protects you from being...
I read some more threads similar, and getting itchy about unofficial versions. I hate to pay $250 for it but I want it to work right from the start.
But I also want it to reside on my machine, nothing in the cloud, no subscription etc. I would rather have a disk to install from, not an online...
A copy? Meaning they burn a fresh CD from it? And they already would run the activation thing for me? But how would that work? I thought activation tied the key to the machine. So if they activated it, my new box would not run it?
And thanks, these are the kinds of questions I would have.
I'm having a new box built. The old one was built in 2012, with Windows 7, and it's done a couple of screwy things recently.
I've had MS Office 2010, from an install at the school where I worked, so I got it free with their educational license. I won't have that perk again this time, so I'm...
OK, all seems to be working now. I managed to find where the new name of the wireless router needed to be entered in the printer's settings. And then they found each other and happily started spilling out the contents of the queue.
I'm not stupid but I am ignorant. So, most of the struggle...
I've blundered around a bit and learned some and cussed some. Some of it is simple ignorance, like I didnt know that Network security Key is just the password for connecting, so house guests can get on the internet. i wish it was just "password". And thankfully, I didn't change that.
And at...
Several years ago I had to get a new wireless router for my wife's laptop (Lenovo, Windows 10). I got a NetGear and it was white. I felt silly at that time, and named it "Whitey". Made me think of Whitey Ford, the great Yankee pitcher when I was a kid.
So last night she mentioned to me that...
Reading some of the other reviews there, I found that Avast has bought AVG. And the Avast review says the exact same thing that AVG Free does
Real-Time protection runs in the background and monitors your system continuously, blocking malware before it gets on your hard-drive.
So I'm...
Actually I found the review of AVG on that website does say that AVG has real-time protection.
"Real-Time protection runs in the background and monitors your system continuously, blocking malware before it gets on your hard-drive. "
Way back when I got my first PC I installed AVG Free. Never had a virus. Couple of years ago they started putting up pop-ups all day, urging me to get the paid version. I just learned to ignore them. Then last week I started getting popups saying "Your subscription will end in <x> days" I...
This morning I went to read my NY Times online and found that every time I click to go to another page, or to Go Back, I get the popup from Facebook that comes up when I have started to enter a comment and then click to leave the page without submitting it
"This page is asking you to confirm...
I did disconnect them for most of this past week, with none of the problem. But then it has only happened maybe 10 times overall, in a period of several weeks, randomly scattered. I posted about it when I got it 3 times in 2 days, which got me really concerned. None since I posted. Since...
Found a post online that pointed me to diskmgmt.msc [Computer management] which makes pretty clear that disk 0 is the C drive, and disk 1 is the DVD. The further numbers are the thumb drives and the external drive. So I am guessing that the errors that are sometimes 2 and sometimes 3 may well...
Well then the errors have never been from the main HDD. C is the boot drive, is it not, since that is where Windows lives?
I am sure I have not seen any errors from a Harddisk0 drive. And none from any Harddisk1 either.
There is and always has been only one good old standard regular "hard...
And a reminder that over time, the disk number in the error has varied. sometimes \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, other times \Device\Harddisk3\DR3, etc. By far the majority are 2 and 3, but I have seen 5 at times. And the number seems to stay constant for a while, then the next day it goes to a...
Dont know how much you want. Here is from Event Viewer
General:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2.
Details
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Disk
- EventID 11
[ Qualifiers] 49156
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[...
And for what it's worth I just noticed that the most recent disk errors, for as far back as I have memory to connect to the timestamps, have been at the time of coming out of sleep. I just put it in and took it out and got the error. This morning at the time when I sat down and woke it up...
Yes, he has been a local shop mainly building systems [and providing services] for businesses in the area. So he cant be cutting a lot of corners, though indeed he needs to look at the customer's wishes for price and BFTB.
Anyway, yes I am going to consider all new. I can afford if it makes...
I now begin to doubt my memory of the deal with the builder. I am pretty old myself, 69 now, and my wife needles me about forgetting what she said yesterday. <giggle>
It may in fact be that I was coming from a machine that was itself 4 or 5 years old at the time, with surely a smaller HDD...
So it looks like the guy who built my box didnt in fact give me a hot rod like I thought I was getting .... !!!
In any case, if I do replace the HDD, I'm not clear if you're saying that the SSD option would work with my system.
So that is just for that specific type of SSD? Is it a matter of...
And disk cleanup - I have always hesitated on that. Afraid I would choose to delete something I shouldn't and didnt want to do the digging and research to learn all about what might be offered to me to delete
The box was built new, July 2012. I have the receipt. I presume all new parts.
My old box at the time [which I actually dared to build myself!] died suddenly and I didnt want to try another one on my own. From a friend's recommendation I went to a local custom shop and gave the guy my specs -...
Also sorry I dont respond real fast. I dont spend a lot of time at the computer and mostly just to check if anybody emailed me and then back out to other things I need to do
Sorry I wasnt clear. By far most of the time that I walk away it goes into Sleep after 15 minutes. Screen goes dead, box goes quiet, power button's blue rim goes off, it appears to be off. Touching any key wakes it up and in seconds it's running normally.
If I explicitly put it into...
VirtualLarry -
I dont know anything about the tests you mention, except what I can find about them online. I ran a basic SMART test [I think] and got this, for HDD and an SD card reader. So the external drive and thumb drives are out for now
C:\Users\Fletcher>wmic diskdrive get status
Status...
OK, cleared events. And all other drives disconnected. Wait and see.
crashtech - if I disabled hibernation what would happen if it is in fact correct that the PSU is the problem and it has been "falling" into hibernation. Would it have nowhere to go and just fall over dead and cold boot next...
What error would I look for, and where?
In Event Viewer / System I see a number of instances of an error "Event ID 11, Disk" that says
*The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3.*
There are over 6400 of those errors beginning in Feb. of 2017. I dont know how they...
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