computing

Windows 8.2 Spring 2015

I have a 1tb HP External HDD that has a lot of files on it. The drive worked fine until yesterday and when I plugged it into the USB port it activated as "CD Drive (G:) HP Launcher". I used explorer and was not able to locate any of my files. There are 2 files showing: 1. HPLauncher.exe 2...

Why continuing support for XP is bad math By Tony Bradley http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/why-continuing-support-for-xp-is-bad-math/

Today being the 8th of April 2014 means that Microsoft have finally stopped supporting this amazing operating system. See the link below for more information. Ref: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help

Here is the situation, I have a peer-to-peer home network working great and I found an two year old desktop that I thought was long gone, evidently wasn't. It wasn't working right two years ago, however now I have learned enough about PC repair that I can fix it. One issue remains, once I fix...

In earlier versions of Windows we were advised not to login as admin for everyday computing but to login as an ordinary user instead for security reasons. Now I have Windows 8.1 and discovered that I am always "admin" and that in order to create a regular user account it's different. I would...

Samsung Magician has been updated to 4.3 along with firmware updates too.. Ref: http://www.maximumpc.com/samsungs_magician_43_software_supercharges_your_840_pro_and_evo_ssds Download: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/about/SSD840EVO.html

Hello I have been fighting the good fight with Windows for years and due to age, health, Windows issues and complexities, would like to know if there is an easier way to compute? We do some banking, surfing, emailing and need to print and scan. Can a book like the Chrome book work for us. I was...

I don't tend to think of it as computer hardware, but in essence it is, because about the only way that I ever use it is in conjunction with the computer. I'm in the process of applying for an RMA for a couple of Logitech Optical Wheel Trackball mice, but one thing that they asked for that I...

Link Removed, Link Removed Today we released a new update to replace KB2823324, which was originally made available through MS13-036. As we previously discussed, we stopped distributing this update when we learned some customers were having issues. The new update, KB2840149, still addresses the...

May be an old buffer, but I have been programming computers for the last 50 or so years, so can anyone answer this question: Whats the difference between an app and a program?

Today we’re publishing the Link Removed. During the webcast, we fielded 10 questions covering all updates. All questions are included on the Q&A page. We invite our customers to join us for the next scheduled webcast on Wednesday, August 14th at 11 a.m. PT (UTC -8), when we will go into...

XP is fast. It's also uses MUCH less resources than every OS after it. XP is for people who like to get things done on their computer. One of my computers has a 500GB HDD, 4GB of 1600 mhz ram (only 3.5 useable) and an Intel i5 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Ivy Bridge (OC'd to 4.2). I have the room... I have...

Over the years, we've put a lot of work into helping secure the computing ecosystem and limiting the number of issues in our products. The security researcher community is critical to these efforts, as they help us find vulnerabilities in our software that we may have missed. Now we're taking...

I have a brand new HP Envy dv6 with windows 8 on it from the factor. I have some software that is only available in Windows 7 with upgrade to windows 8 versions 6 to 12 months off. I figured no big deal, I've done dual boots before. Well it's different now. I made a partition, formatted it...

You read correctly,..... $750 for a set of RAM. No ordinary RAM though but some super fast stuff from Corsair: Link Removed 3000MHz is pretty zippy and certainly makes 1333MHz look tame but my 8GB cost around £30.... :pirate:

In another forum someone asked what people felt about Windows 8. This is what I had to say: Ok, well, to the OP I will offer my comments & promise to not be overly techy. Many folks who have spent a bit of time @ this forum, already, know my feelings but, that's ok... I have been using...

Today, we released MS13-008 to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2794220. We’ve seen only a limited number of attacks through an issue in Internet Explorer 6-8, but the potential exists that more customers could be affected. The majority of customers have automatic updates...

So, my computer Blue Screens about once every 24 hours or so, so it's not that bad yet, but it often happens when I'm not doing anything at the computer. It was only three times so far, but I figure that's more than enough to get help with it, so it doesn't keep happening. I love how when I...

So I have reinstalled windows 7 for the third time this year and have always had problems with the HIS 4650 agp 1GB. I have had this working many times before but I cannot remember how I eventually got it to work and was too excited to do so. I have drivers installed, but when I switch to aero...