I'm not having much luck with computers just lately. My Big Beastie with the Ryzen Threadripper X2920 suddenly died and I had to take it into a techie to find out how and why.... being I have no diagnostic tools to speak of. It turns out that the mobo just up and died on me. Geez, it's not even 6 months old and it retired itself. Anyhow, that wasn't the end of it and I got some good news. The techie sent it back to MSI and they promptly replaced it without question.&nb...
It doesn't matter which conversion program I use, my PC freezes up during conversions, Sometimes it is very early in the piece and sometimes as much as 60% to 70% has completed, which is really annoying because none of it appears in the conversion folder until 100% has completed, meaning the time and effort was wasted. If anyone can suggest what and why this may be happening I'd be most pleased as I have family awaiting their videos. TIA, Mark.
I was so pleased with myself once I had gotten my Cosmos II Big Beastie all set up with Win 10 and all of my most used programs. It was a long time coming, what with mobo issues and the like, and it was fantastic to sit here in front of the 35" ultra wide screen connected to it....UNTIL MS decided to sneak in an update around 3.00 AM and borked quite a bit of stuff. I know it was around 3.00AM cos I walked past the machine to go to the toilet at 3.06 AM and noticed it was on and downloa...
Yeah, as the title suggests, I'm having trouble with notepad.exe constantly reinventing itself.... no matter how many times I end the process in Taskmanager/Taskkill in CMD as administrator. I no sooner end it and it is back pretty much instantly. When this happens the CPU is running at over 90%, often at full tilt, 100%. Not only that, it is writing files that I cannot find. So far it has written over 30Gb of files I am unable to locate, and on a 120Gb SSD, I will run ou...
At long last, after various hold-ups and distractions, days when I felt like crap with vertigo and arthritis, I finally got my AMD FX 8350 in the Thermaltake Level 10 case up and running again. Admittedly, there were a few things I needed to do to it - like install an AMD GFX card to match the CPU brand-wise, swap out some RAM and HDDS, etc - but that was just one part of a larger project. I've also been remodelling my desk and reorganising everything so I'm not using as much...
Well the title say it all, I just found a portable apps manager in Liberkey and I'm finding quite useful indeed. Not only does it keep all the apps handy in the one place, I've been able to uninstall several similar/equivelant programs to save space on my SSD, being the Liberkey versions tend to have a smaller footprint. The program is similar to Nirsoft's app manager, but I like Liberkey better. Now for those of you who don't know about Liberkey, take a look here...
Just when I thought I'd overcome the keyboard and mouse issues that came with Windows Update, Microsux goes a messes thing up again... and not through regular Windows Update... this time. Last night I was working on some video conversions when all of a sudden my machine BEGINS TO REBOOT: ''Working on Updates. Do Not Turn Off Your Machine'' Like WTF? Windows Update is disabled. No, it was done through Scheduled Maintenance which was running in the background ...
Okay, just kidding. Stardock can't do/think of everything; however, this nifty little tool from Nurgo Software is pretty cool.... not to mention somewhat useful. Yup, TidyTabs adds tabbed browsing to Windows Explorer and programs such as Word, Notepad and others. While the program does detect tabbable programs, there is a whitelist and blacklist to either add your own or remove those you don't need or use. I got is earlier and am quite chuffed at how useful it is.... havin...
In the early days I made it quite clear that I did not like Win 10 and that I'd stick with Win 8.1 because it is fast, stable and reliable. In fact, I'm still using 8.1 on my main rig and am happy with the choice to remain with it. However, I have Win 10 0n my HP 2-in1 and like it much better now that I've tweaked it to suit my likes and needs. In some cases I used 3rd-party apps to achieve the desired result, but often times I could adjust things in 'Settings&#...
Well my CoolerMaster Cosmos II, ASUS Maximus VII Hero mobo and CPU cooler have arrived... at long fechen last. Oops, I did say rant off, didn't I? Still, I waited long enough... and maybe there's a little residual frustration lingering. Anyway, I unpacked the Cosmos II.... and what a beastie it is, too! I thought the Thermaltake Level 10 was a beastie, but this beastie beats that beastie by quite a bit. It's fechen huge! Put it this way, and not...
I hadn't planned to make any more tech purchases once I'd gotten my CoolerMaster Cosmos II and a Z97 motherboard to upgrade my i7 4790K rig, but plans do not always go to plan, as I found out yesterday, now. So there I was, trawling through price comparison pages for PC tech, as you do, when I spied this ASUS ROG Mars 760 Dual GPU graphcs card going for an unusually low price... and better still, the place selling it is just 20 minutes away by bus. Anyway, to cut a long story short...
Just as the title says, AMD is claiming that its upcoming Zen processor, which will be based on 14nm process tecnology, will compete with the best Intel can produce. To be honest, I really hope so. While my main machine is currently Intel based, I have run several AMD machines over the years and hope the company can again become competitive because I have been happy with its products and would rather see it remain a force in the tech world than fold, as some journalists/tech comme...
As the title says, Firefox now comes with a 64 bit version. For those who are interested.... here's more , plus links to the downloads. Happy sailing and don't fergit yer Sou'westers.
I really wanted to take a shot at Google today but couldn't find anything newsworthy or damning. However, I found the next best thing ... a damning indictment on Apple... something it oughta be fechin' ashamed of but instead is defending. Yup, the mother-whats-its [insert expletive here] created software to delete competitors music purchased by users from their iPods and other fechen i devices. Despicable ain't the word for it! Try downright fechen crim...
So the last few months haven't been the greatest and I needed a bit of cheering up.... and what better to do that than a new device that blows yer old one outta the water!! Anyway, to cut to the chase, I got me a HP Envy x2 13" Touchscreen Laptop to fill in while I'm between addresses and can't set up my main PCs the way I'd like. Put bluntly, I don't have the room, and this little laptop-come tablet pretty much handles what I need to do for now. More to ...