Recent content by garyfritz

Yeah, in the early 80's I remember sprinting through O'hare, in my hard nasty dress shoes, carrying a 30-ish pound disk drive. Made my flight, but ouch! Good thing our tech is much lighter now, because I'm 30+ yrs older!!

Sorry, I forgot to mention: I replaced the battery last year. So it's not even 18 months old. I'm not sure what that would be. I don't really run any audio/video apps, and nothing showed in my requestsoverride report. It doesn't happen all the time so it must not be something that's always...

@Neemobeer, reports attached...

No argument, I'm that fool. Like I said, I need a new one! And it's worse than you might think. At the time I bought it, I intended to be a desktop system that I occasionally took into the living room. Since then my job has changed, and I have lugged this 7lb 17" beast around the country...

It's an HP Pavilion dv7-6199us, circa 2011. (I'm due for a new laptop!) I've upgraded the hard drive to a 250GB SSD, boosted it from 8GB to 16GB RAM, and added a USB wifi dongle to replace the flaky built-in wifi. All that happened when I was still running Win7. These problems are recent...

Totally agree updates are important. But I want them when ***I*** want to reboot my system, not when Windows has decided it's time. It wouldn't be so bad if I could just tell it "only reboot on weekends," but it seems every time it ignores what I told it last time.

I've been running Win10 on my (old) laptop for about 6 months now. In the last few months I've noticed some problems with power management. 90%+ of the time the laptop is on my desk, plugged in. (Which I know is not ideal for battery life.) But when it's unplugged, sometimes it has issues. *...