Recent content by Winfried

I'll do i when I have the patience to reboot and wait several times.

Thanks for the tip. Even after rebooting, it's still unable to repair the following files: difxapi.dll, winhlp32.exe.mui, and winhlp32.exe. It's not a major issue, so I'll just live with it until I migrate to a new host.

Hello, Occasionally, when watching a video* through Google Chrome, I notice CPU usage goes way up. Resource Monitor shows it's due to a svchost process in charge of "DComLaunch, PlugPlay, Power". For one, Sysinternals' psservice.exe says that the PlugPlay service is...

Yes, but the data I have to start with do not neatly fit the colums required to use password managers like KeePass, which I did look at before. And it'd be too much work to edit the input file. So I needed a solution that could encrypt a free-flow text file.

Hello, In case my computer gets hacked, I want to keep passwords safe into an encrypted file. Since the data I have is free-flow, KeePass won't do since it expects data to be in neat columns (logon, password, etc.) After checking several apps, I came up with the following requirements: 1...

Thanks much for the tip! Among the many apps/scripts available, Nirsoft's WinPrefetchView makes it possible to sort files by their location, an easy way to ignore those living in the Windows directory. Cheers,

Hello, To make a bit less painful to migrate from my aging 32-bit Windows 7 workstation to the latest and greatest, I need to find what apps I most often use, before gathering and installing the latest version of each and importing data files and settings. The "Last Used On" column in W7's...

"msinfo32.exe" provides the infos I was looking for.

Hello, Is there a simple way in Windows to find the chipset used on a USB wifi dongle - preferably something that can be run on any Windows since XP? I need someone remote to run a command and tell me what hardware he has on his computer; As he is barely computer-literate, I need the simplest...

Booting Linux Mint 18 Mate off a USB keydrive, it boots a bit slower than XP, but it should be as fast from the hard drive. The UI definitely looks better than LXDE, but I have the same issues I had with the other distros: Wifi fails authenticating Likewise, no sound through speakers, but OK...

Wouldn't Mint be too fat for such a slow CPU (+ possibly 2GB if it turns out it won't take more) ?

I tried a few lighweight distros (LXDE, ElementaryOS, Porteus, LinuxLite, SparkyLinux, etc.) but all of them had issues with either wifi, sound, etc. In XP, everything just worked, and the UI is consistent across applications. Looks like 2017 still won't be the year of the desktop Linux :bigtongue:

Thanks. Indeed, it does currently have 2GB of RAM. Can I really add bigger sticks? Actually, since it shipped with W7 Start, I'm more concerned about performance. Does anyone have W7 running well on such a slow CPU?

Hello I bought a second-hand Asus EeePC 1001PXD which sports an Atom N455 processor and 2GB RAM. While Linux had multiple issues, XP worked right away. However, as XP is no longer supported, I was wondering how Windows 7 would run on that hardware, either Home or Ultimate. Thank you.

Thanks for the info. After posting, I read this elsewhere: "The second 100mb partition is your boot sector, plus recovery options. You should NOT delete this; however, you can avoid the creation of this partition if you format your drive using something other than the Windows Setup before...