Recent content by Nomad of Norad

A few days ago, I noticed my Win10 taskbar had added a new feature to the left of the system-tray, which when moused over, displays news and weather and whatnot. At that location in the taskbar, it was showing me the weather. Mostly it showed the current temperature, and a particular symbol...

I actually had made a recovery disc some while ago, but for some reason the machine would not boot from the disc, even though I have the CD/DVD drive set in BIOS as one of the things to boot from, and even though I can see that drive's light blink for a moment each time I turn the machine on...

I don't get the impression its getting any hotter than it has been in ages.

Okay, it kept freezing every few moments for a couple seconds at a time, and going BAZZZZ or BIZZZZZZ, but would always resume working again after it. It was doing this for over an hour. And then I walked out of the room, came back, and it had froze to BAZZZZZZZZZZ and stayed there... and it...

Well, I set a restore point, then enabled the Driver Verifier thing, dutifully rebooted to let the changes take effect... and it immediately bluescreened before it could even get to desktop. I said, okay, fine, I'll go back to the restore point, and went to set a restore point from the...

Does the Driver Verifier mode take up a lot of processor-ticks, or is it low-activity enough that you barely notice? edit: I guess, fundamentally, I'm asking: Does it hammer-hammer-hammer-hammer at the machine to make it crash so as to test it, or does it simply, quietly monitor things...

Bah, things are still locking up at random, sometimes going BAAZZZZZZZZZ for several moments (I.e. several seconds) and then resuming regular operation, sometimes going BAAZZZZZZZZZZZ for several minutes until I give up and hit Reset. Just not as often as it was a couple days ago. I can mostly...

Well, I went and reinstalled back in Docker Desktop and the relevant container, and haven't had a crash since. It's pretty much what my experience was before: So long as Docker launched the container correctly, I'd only get one BSOD in a couple weeks. If for some reason Docker tripped over...

Bah, crashed again.

Bah, it did it again, but this time all I was doing was right-click saving a bunch of JPGs from the Web to my downloads folder.

Of late, I have been getting random hangs, followed sometimes by a BSOD telling me Synthetic Watchdog Timeout. I have done just about everything I can think of to fix it. Far as I understand it, the ONLY thing that can be causing this is virtual-machines related, Hyper-V and the like. I HAD...

Well, after 2 days of banging my head against a wall, going through maybe a dozen different what-to-do-if-you-get-100%-disk-activity help pages, all of which gave more or less the same checklist of things to turn off or twiddle with... I finally started systematically shutting down every program...

Okay, for some reason, Task Manager is telling me I have 100% disk activity, and its going on all day long. This suddenly showed up a couple days ago and I have no idea why. I have not changed anything significant, like installing or updating any programs. Tonight I did do an optional...

Invest in a decent... whut? What's an AIO? Anyway, I have a LOT of stuff that launches at startup (i.e. many of the chat programs, some support aps), and some things that I then launch at manual fairly early on (i.e. the web browser, the email program, some more chat stuff...). edit...

Well, it's at 65 to 68 right now with me having regular programs running, like all my chat programs (Pidgin, Telegram, Discord, etc), web browser with lots of tabs open, Thunderbird open with a LOT of mailboxes, and such, and I'm not running anything strenuous like games or such, (I don't run...