Recent content by flyboytim

It's fairly clear now that Windows is continuing to be freely distributed, and MS wants the userbase to pay only for the hardware and services that are offered by them, and their OEM partners. By ignoring what was once considered piracy, they have just entrained the more curious users who don't...

A user friendly service would not reboot at all, but allow the user to choose a time for the upgrade to take place, and at that time, stop any services affected by the updates, update their corresponding files and dependencies, restart the services, and recommend a future reboot at a date and...

Aznphatb0i, if you google LoveRPi Performance Pro Cases for Raspberry Pi 3 you get to the supplier's page at https://www.loverpi.com/products/loverpi-performance-pro-case which gives a list of parts in the kit: Then there's an explanation of exactly how the extension cable is used:

I have a program that cleverly downloads Windows (7, 8, and 10) Setup Iso Images from a Microsoft image repository (formerly Techbench - now called Windows Iso, apparently). (a link to the program may be found here...

Presumably, if both drives are plugged in, the system that runs is on Drive "c:", and the other drive has a letter "x:" or whatever. If you can put up with a boot menu, use bcdboot.exe from an elevated (admin) command prompt, and issue the following 2 commands. BCDboot c:\windows /s c: /f all...

From within Windows 10, 7, 8, or 8.1 browse to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewiso to download an iso for build 10565 Once you select and download the iso, right click and mount the iso as a virtual DVD. To ensure that you will be able to activate your...

Use the pipe more! The pipe (|) redirects output to a buffer that stores it so you see one page at a time each time you press return: type b:\letters\letter5.doc|more or you can redirect output to a textfile using > as in type b:\letters\letter6.doc>let6.txt

I'd be interested to see the evidence eluded to in kjv1611's post above that hosts file inclusions or exclusions slow down your system - if an ad in a webpage looks for a site to download an image from and is met with an error generated on your machine by your browser, and only a local address...

well done!

ATMSYS.DRV is the driver for the Adobe Type Manager, often installed with old wordprocessors like WordPerfect to give better font rendering. The ATM installer incorrectly edits the Windows system files. The problem is probably in the system.ini file, which loads at Windows startup - IIRC, it is...

Rather than an additional antivirus, an antimalware scanner such as Malwarebytes Free https://www.malwarebytes.org/ can be used on occasions to clean up Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) and Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), which can be picked up by visiting web pages and sometimes just by...

There are also ribbon cables that can wear and intermittently short out to the grounded parts - for instance in the optical drive (CD/DVD/RW) which can be fixed by replacing the faulty drive, or the cable(s) connecting the screen to the base. These faults can be hard to trace, and the...

Ubuntu will recognise a pre-existing Windows installation and chainload the Windows bootloader to the Linux GRUB bootloader in most cases, unlike the other way around, where Windows will invariably ignore non-windows bootloaders, and overwrite the existing boot record with their own. Windows 8...

Right click and make a New, Shortcut on the desktop, and type in cmd(cmd.exe), click Next it should find the command prompt and make the shortcut. Right click the shortcut icon and select Properties. Click Advanced, then check Run as Administrator, Ok, Ok, and you now hav an elevated command...

I always thought that the network implementation in Windows 7 was flakey - and MS fixed it with Windows 8. Apart from being very slow to start up, connections would just drop out, and reconnect without apparent reason, and not having an active flashing network icon as in the XP notification area...